I SHOULD PROBABLY GO TO BED

[vayshedruvon]

I do not understand staying off the internet to protest SOPA, or shutting down your website to protest it.

Isn't that kind of totally backwards?

If some weird law wanted to shut down all the bagel shops, or, at least, severely limit the bagel flavors*, or prosecute people that made the same bagel flavors as another shop, or something like that,

Comments

[jenss1234]

Lol, this was a good start to my morning.

[vayshedruvon]

Haha, I was a little overtired when I wrote it... glad you enjoyed ;)

[serenadesha]

I understand sites shutting down -- especially ones like Wikipedia. There's no other way for them to show their disapproval, and it represents what could happen. So sites shutting down makes total sense to me.

However, I've not heard people should not use the internet. In fact, the site organizing the protest said that people should be constantly using Twitter and Facebook to get the word out. Staying off the internet, like you said, makes no sense whatsoever. I just hadn't heard of anyone doing that.

[vayshedruvon]

I can understand Wikipedia, because they a) have the following to actually be noticed if they go down, b) don't really earn anything through their site and c) still kept up information about SOPA/PIPA. (I think it would have been kind of ironic if they went down and therefore limited access to info about them, hah

[vayshedruvon]

I think Google's blackout is more intelligent than full out "you can't use our website" at all approach. Limiting people's ability to search (for, say, SOPA or PIPA related information) would be, after all, completely useless in fighting against the bills.