Google Will Change Its Home Page Tomorrow To Protest SOPA

[qanda]

Google will change its home page tomorrow to protest SOPA, the proposed Internet legislation that cofounder Sergey Brin and other big techies have likened to the kind of Internet censorship laws found in China and Iran.

Read more at link:

link: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-will-change-its-home-page-tomorrow-to-protest-sopa-2012-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29

List of sites that will participate in the blackout/protest:

link:http://operationsopa.blogspot.com/2012/01/list-of-companiesorganizations-that-are.html

[qanda]

1. What OpenDNS will do to protest SOPA/PIPA:

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For one business day starting at 8 AM Eastern time tomorrow, we will randomly redact the text of search results appearing in OpenDNS Guide pageviews. This is not a decision we take lightly and we’re fully aware it can, and will, create a frustrating experience both for our users, and for owners of websites being censored. But with 30 million+ users we have the equivalent of a megaphone on the Internet. We feel it’s our responsibility to demonstrate the near-random methodology SOPA and PIPA propose to determine those websites contributing to piracy, and also what the Internet would look like if their fate was to be blocked.

More at link:

http://blog.opendns.com/2012/01/17/opendns-and-the-sopa-blackout-the-censorship-you-can-expect/

[DippyDem]

2. So I take it Bing isn't participating?

And for that matter I don't see Apple either. Correct me if either are joining the protest.

[qanda]

3. No. Although Microsoft has released a statement saying they oppose the legislation

As it is currently drafted.

“We oppose the passage of the SOPA bill as currently drafted,” a Microsoft spokesperson says via email. “We think the White House statement points in a constructive way to problems with the current legislation, the need to fix them, and the opportunity for people on all sides to talk together about a better path forward.”

Here's a link to read more: http://sopaprotests.blogspot.com/2012/01/microsoft-says-it-opposes-sopa-as.html

[DippyDem]

4. Gotcha, thanks for the heads up!

[madokie]

5. I don't use google anymore

So I'll never know for sure will I