To address a few of these concerns: The "blackout" I'm going to apply will not be a strict black out. More like throwing a blanket over the lamp - people will still be able to click through to our site, and they'll only see the protest once if they have cookies enabled.
Re: solidarity with other countries fighting bad laws - I (personally) welcome any similar requests from any community member who feels that it might be helpful for the community to take a stance on an issue such as SOPA/PIPA. Certainly, any request sent to the list (as this one was) should be considered in the spirit of international cooperation. Liz Rea l...@nekls.org
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On Jan 17, 2012, at 1:22 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > Liz Rea <l...@nekls.org> >> It would be easy to participate in the SOPA/PIPA web blackout protest >> tomorrow on koha-community.org, should we? >> >> Good idea? Bad idea? > > If this means taking the websites offline, then I feel it's an awful > idea for many reasons: firstly, it's self-harm, hurting our friends > and not directly affecting our opponents; secondly, US websites didn't > protest or go offline while Brits were fighting EUCD, RIPA, IPRED and > so on (solidarity is not a one-way street and I see no prospect that > US websites will go offline for future foreign issues); it > demonstrates that the web can survive without those who oppose; and > probably more reasons I've not thought of quickly. > > Protest banners/posts: +1 > > Defeating ourselves with a blackout: -1 > > Hope that explains, > -- > MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. > http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. > In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html > Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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