INTERNET BLACKLISTING, SAVE THE INTERNET!

Just this time the dinosaurs have billions of dollars and are giving millions to objects in space whose gravitational field can affect the trajectory of the meteor and also giving high paying jobs to those who wrote the Save Dinosaurs bill to help push it through!

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/11/congressional-staffers-behind.html

Are things looking better or did I get it all wrong?

This, my dear friends, is why i support anarchy.

from Idida1
This, my dear friends, is why i support anarchy.

Yeah, I'm assuming this was just a joke. If not...no, it has to be.

If this crap is going to be nothing but a DNS block then it should be easy to bypass.
Start memorizing websites' IPs, boiis.

In that case just download DeSopa just in case. I dunno if the whole DNS crap will affect Finland though but better safe than sorry.

http://freelabs.info/UrlToIpOnline.aspx
I hope this one won't be noticed.

Sign of what's to come: USA pressures Spain into passing their own SOPA. Google & Co. need to do that blackout to really drop support for this shit.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/spain/120105/spain-sopa-law-passes-after-pressure-us-ambassador-alan-so

author=GreatRedSpirit
Sign of what's to come: USA pressures Spain into passing their own SOPA. Google & Co. need to do that blackout to really drop support for this shit.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/spain/120105/spain-sopa-law-passes-after-pressure-us-ambassador-alan-so

The Sinde Law was passed on Jan 3, after the new government led by Mariano Rajoy came to power, and gives a government body the power to force internet service providers to block sites found guilty of hosting pirated material within 10 days, according to the BBC. Under the law, a newly created intellectual property commission will decide what action to take against a site deemed to be violating internet copyright laws, passing the case on to a judge who decides whether the site will be shut down.

...this at least puts the power to shut down the site in the hands of a judge! But yikes!

Well..at least they will allow a judge to decide. I hope this place isn't blocked, I love it here!

author=GreatRedSpirit
Google & Co. need to do that blackout to really drop support for this shit.

Actually, the way I see it, Google & Co stand to gain from this type of legislation. With them having a huge competitive advantage in terms of cash flow and name recognition, this helps to entrench them as a dominant force on the internet.
Maybe it's proof and maybe it's not, but a day-long blackout is a near-meaningless protest. If Google & co were committed to the fight against SOPA, they could easily match whatever bribes the RIAA/MPAA are making and pose a sizeable argument that "we, the internet giants, are the future. Not those dinosaurs". But no. They choose to go the way of a dopey blackout.

Anyway, the real reason for all the anti-internet legislation is to quell political dissidence in the coming years. In our modern era, like-minded activists meet and greet using social media. It's bad enough that people are talking about the mere possibility of government being corrupt and ineffective, but God help them if people actually start to organise and mount effective strategic resistance like boycotts, bank runs, or tax protests.