[hackerspaces] SOPA Blackout 1/18/12

[Pedro Umbelino]

Same goes for byteme hackerspace.
Altough not a portuguese problem atm, I fear it will bring a terrible
precedent and dangerous example to europe.

kripthor

On 01/17/2012 09:01 PM, Mitch Altman wrote:
> We have also decided to show our solidarity with the opponents of the SOPA and PIPA bills and black out our HOPE and 2600 websites on Wednesday, January 18th. 
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> ---------------------------------------- > From: itg at itechgeek.com > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:29:59 -0500 > To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org > Subject: [hackerspaces] SOPA Blackout 1/18/12 > > SOPABlackout.org provides a nice little javascript file to present a > notice whenever someone loads a page, but still allows the people to > access that page by clicking anywhere on the blackpage (other then the > SOPA links) > > HacDC is planning to participate, so I came up w/ the following code > to add to our main website & wiki site: > If you plan to use this on your site, use: > if (date('Y-m-d') == "2012-01-18") { > echo '<script type="text/javascript" > src="//js.sopablackout.org/sopablackout.js"></script>'; > } > > The code is simple enough that you should just be able to throw it > into the header of your site w/o breaking things. > > On the HacDC site, I modified it slightly in the date to change from > UTC (What the HacDC website is) to EST (Where HacDC is). > > I checke
>  d and the js.sopablackout.org is hosted on a Linode in > California, so I suggest copying the js file to your local web > provider so that you know if your website is avail, the js file will > be avail (although I've thought about throwing it on my Amazon S3 > account, maybe in a Cloudfront enabled bucket for my websites). > > If you need the code loading the js file in a language other then php, > I'm sure if you ask someone on the list can help you w/ that. > > -ITG > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss 		 	   		  
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