Wkipedia and other sites shut down for the day

[Capt Worley PE]

Wikipedia even offed a link so that you can contact your house and senate representatives (my representative was wrong--bravo wikipedia!), but the thought occurred to me:

Who are the legislators more likely to listen to:

a) Millions of e-mails from irate constituents?

B) Print, TV, and film media companies that donate millions?

 

[Master slacker]

Neither. They'll listen to whomever has the lobbyists who buys each of them the most toys.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

The local media is reporting that the CO representatives have already started publicly distancing themselves from it.

I know they'll listen to the public when it's an election year...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Must be a lot of folks contacting their legislators. The sites for all three of mine are down.

 

[Exception Collection]

Wikipedia even offed a link so that you can contact your house and senate representatives (my representative was wrong--bravo wikipedia!), but the thought occurred to me:

Who are the legislators more likely to listen to:

a) Millions of e-mails from irate constituents?

B) Print, TV, and film media companies that donate millions?

Pretty much the entire tech industry is against this bill; Facebook, Google, AOL, Ebay, Twitter...

The only exception that I know of is the people that run Fark.com (news aggregation, not ****); they've indicated that they are for it - they figure it's the only way they can take some time off.

Senator Wyden - my senator - is one of the people leading the charge against this bill. I sent him a message of support, but since he knows what he's doing it barely seemed necessary.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Must be a lot of folks contacting their legislators. The sites for all three of mine are down.

Mine too

 

[envirotex]

My congressman is Lamar Smith...I called him last week.

 

[TrussGuy85]

You can get around this by using google's cacheing feature. Basically, type anything into google along with the word "wiki". If you hover over the wikipedia results, a double arrow shows up to the right of the search results. Click on the double arrow and a graphic shows up. At the top there is a link that says "Cached". This will give you the most recent cached web page, which is generally fairly recent.

 

[Road Guy]

That was the real reason we were closed in December, I was boycotting early....

 

[MGX]

Why would they legislate a series of tubes? Its not a dumptruck.