StriKe Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 even xda-developers.com Along with Reddit and many other sites, we have decided to go dark (beginning at 8AM ET) for a period of time today in protest of pending Internet-related legislation in the US. Our goal is not to raise awareness of this legislation. We assume most of you know all about it. Our goal is encourage users like you to get involved. Once 50,000 US visitors have signed our pledge below, XDA will return. The current pledge count is: 19007 This pledge is only for US visitors of the site, though you can help the cause by getting your family or friends in the US to contact their local Senator or Representative. We are tremendously sorry for the inconvenience and hope to return online soon. To find the contact info for your local member of Congress, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation and enter your zip code. Today is a monumental day in the short history of the Web. Wikipedia and many others have joined the protest. We hope you will do you part to maintain the free Internet (and bring XDA back online)! Note: If you see the pledge count decline, it is because we are actively removing duplicate IP addresses from the pledge list. This is the best way to get a real pledge count and ensure no abuse.
Lurker Posted January 18, 2012 Posted January 18, 2012 Google has also joined the protest.. lol..Isnt this classic Google?? Call me cynical but it looks so. If Google is really worried about SOPA, why not bring the site down completely ala Wikipedia? That would have meant they stand behind it as much. But wait Wiki does not make money, Google does. So what does Google do? It "asks" its users to Ask Congress lol..Better still it also hosts cached Wikipedia files so one can go look even though Wiki is down. I would think shutting down Google for a day would make lot more pressure on power that be behind SOPA than shutting down Wiki...just my chawaani of course.
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