Category: politics

  • Don’t be alarmed

    If this site, in its entirety, is down tomorrow.

    SOPA and PIPA are utterly appalling pieces of potential US legislation, and would likely destroy the internet as a community.

    Not that I expect my tiny participation in tomorrow’s blackout campaign to have any effect, but I want to add my support. The internet has been crucial to my life in many ways, and all of them could go away. All of the sites I maintain will be down, including the business pages, joining many much more influential sites. Like, oh, Wikipedia, and Reddit, and Boing Boing. (Note: this won’t affect the LJ feed; I have no control over their servers.)

    Here’s one way to join in if you maintain a website of your own.

    And on second thought, be very alarmed.

    Edit: All rumors to the contrary, SOPA is not dead, just tabled until February.

    Also, irony is not dead.