Considering my lack of internet free-time over the past few weeks, I’ve been keeping up with hot button news through Twitter. Where else would I go, right? Everyone’s nerd brother, Wil Wheaton (@wilw) recently tweeted this gem that put a smile on my face:
Reddit is going dark on January 18 to protest #SOPA and #ProtectIP. I hope Google, Facebook, Twitter, Fark, Tumblr, and AOL will join them.
This is simply fantastic in my eyes, what a step in the right direction. I’ve been a redditor for about 4 years now, and I’ve seen some really cool stuff when it comes to internet movements, but this one has to take the cake in my book.
Obviously, being internet people, we can safely say Popular Outcasts is an Anti-SOPA crew, but we wanted to hear some of the thoughts of our listeners. So talk down there. In the comments. I’ll be watching.
The whole trying to “censor the internet” thing is a big confusing mess imo. With something as broad as the internet the amount of money needed to monitor the whole ordeal, none the less enact it, seems like a terrible waste or resources that could spent doing things that could actually physically help the people. With all this talk about employment rates, and crime rates going up, wouldn’t this money be better spent helping some other field that would affect people in a more positive way? I’ve been keeping up with the topic lightly mostly because i don’t spend a lot of time involved with this kind of thing. But this particular instance has sparked my interest, no matter what happens im interested in the turn-out of the whole ordeal. However i feel that no matter what the outcome is going to be, i’m sure there will be 200,000 people complaining and 200,000 cheering. Though if it does go south how long does everyone really think it will take before the “cyber underground” finds a work around for anything that does come up?
With Reddit going down, would the POPodcast website be going down as well?