So Wikipedia is blacked out for the day in protest of SOPA (that article is still accessible). Which is a powerful gesture, or would be if it still wasn’t damn easy to bypass, as they themselves tell you how to do on the info page accessible from the blackout screen. It is true that I, along with most of the Internet I suspect, am too lazy to actually deactivate JavaScript to get at Wikipedia; I can wait a day. If the site had been truly inaccessible then I believe their point would have had much more force behind it. The world can go one day without Wikipedia. As Justicar points out Google is whimpering even more feebly in protest. Google actually shutting down for a day, now there would be a protest with impact. Because the world really couldn’t go a day without Google. Well it could, obviously, but it’d be a shock akin to a severe nicotine addict finding themselves marooned in Antarctica with nary a contraband dealing penguin in sight.
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As I said on twitter, it’s a true fact of the universe that atheist penguins all carry contraband. There was even a documentary about their lives of crime – why, I hear they don’t even check the age of their cigarette customers.