[pp.int.general] SOPA - Should we go on blackout strike?

[Pat Mächler]

I just found out Wikipedia seems to be supporting the action for certain
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA

I found further sites that could be of relevance
http://sopablackout.org/
http://fightcensorship.info/

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Pirat at LennStar.de <pirat at lennstar.de> wrote:
> +1 on that one.
>
> LennStar
>
> Am 14.01.2012 14:29, schrieb Pat Maechler aka Valio:
>> Why not? There are still worldwide petitions running against SOPA.
>> If the US is applying pressure on foreign governments concerning their
>> legislature on copyright, non-US citizens should not even consider to
>> hesitate to criticize the US government as well in that aspect. After
>> all the idea of democracy is not that decisions are to be taken by
>> foreign lobbyist groups of corporations that became way too big.
>>
>> -pat
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Justus Römeth <squig at dfpx.de> wrote:
>>> Ahoi!
>>>
>>> Yeah I don't think there's much sense to a website geared towards European
>>> or South American or Australian citizens. In the US I think the PPs of
>>> Massachusetts and Ohio are the most active, while they disbanded the
>>> national party alltogether (imagine us Europeans having started with a
>>> European on instead of the national ones). It would make sense to raise
>>> awareness and write a news item on the front page with links to blacked out
>>> websites, but I don't think the average visitor of any PP site other the
>>> ones in the US is likely to be in a position
>>>
>>> -J
>>>
>>>  to put pressure on US legislators.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Martin Rieth
>>> <martin.rieth at piratenpartei-goettingen.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Moin Moin Pat,
>>>>
>>>> Samstag, 14. Januar 2012 - Pirate Parties International -- General Talk :
>>>>> TL;DR: Who would opt for a blackout strike on 18th of January against
>>>>> SOPA? or should it be later? see http://sopastrike.com/ for details
>>>>
>>>> There should be a call for action from the pirates in US.
>>>> I wont suggest to black a german local pirate page or my homepage, since
>>>> the topic is still to much US specific, even if it concerns all of us.
>>>>
>>>> The pp-international.net is currently linking to:
>>>> http://www.pirate-party.us/ which is already on a kind of strike. :-\
>>>>
>>>> The http://us.pirate.is/ is not really active.
>>>>
>>>> So i suggest we, members of ppi, start pushing us-pirates into existence
>>>> and then to become political activist and then go on strike. ,-)
>>>>
>>>> In that order. >:-)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway i suggested wikipedia.org to go on strike.
>>>>
>>>> I say 42, Martin Rieth
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