SOPA and PIPA "blackout day"

[shipperx]

So how many reactions were stirred up by yesterday's 'blackout'?  This article summarizes.

Excerpt:

• Over 7,000,000 Americans signed Google's petition against the bills.
• According to Wikipedia, over 162,000,000 people saw their protest page, and over 8,000,000 used their tool to look up information about their elected representatives.
• Over 75,000 websites took part in the protest.
• According to Twitter, there were more than 2,400,000 SOPA-related tweets from 12:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET yesterday.

• In the House, Speaker John Boehner declared that SOPA lacks consensus, and thus would need to significantly reworked before it went anywhere

• In the Senate, the number of opponents to PIPA rose from 15 to 37, while the number of supporters dropped from 39 to 33, according to the Open Congress whip count. Further, several senators who are listed as either supporters or undecided have released statements in the past few hours calling for changes in PIPA.

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Well that's encouraging.

[spikewriter]

Good to hear. I probably should reprint my response from Feinstein at some point. I swear, if they could give me a non-crazy moderate Republican, I might take a look.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

And today the feds shut down megaupload, and put out a whole bunch of indictments. What the chances that that's a coincidence?

And Anonymous has shut down the websites for the department of justice and the FBI...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

megaupload?

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I went for a walk (big snow storm here, so it took a while) and come back to Megaupload shut down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html?_r=1

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/technology/megaupload_shutdown/