[hackerspaces] SOPA Blackout 1/18/12

[Elger Jonker]

Most spaces from NL also participate.

Overview on hackerspaces.nl


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Pedro Umbelino <umbelino at crazydog.pt>wrote:

> 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.
> > http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12185
> >
> >
> >
> > Mitch.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------- > 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 chec
>  ke
> >  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 >
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