I strongly hope this will happen, especially for the sake of non-US countries like mine.
There are a lot of comments saying that the blackout should spare non-US countries as it does not affect us.
For those who feel this way, please read holmesworcesters comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235431
If Wikipedia and hopefully Google would really replace their site for one day, it would raise the peoples awareness to such issues dramatically.
And if some American politicians lose their jobs over it, some European politicians will keep that in mind when the next "Anti-Internet-Law" (of course it would never be called that way) is proposed.
> There are a lot of comments saying that the blackout should spare non-US countries as it does not affect us. For those who feel this way, please read holmesworcesters comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235431
But there's nothing we (non-US citizens) can do about it. Any noise we make means nothing to US politicians who are accountable only to the American people, and sometimes it looks not even to them.
Don't make the rest of us suffer for bad choices made by US voters.
Endure one single day of blacked-out Wikipedia and Google, and gain significantly better negotiation positions when it comes to our own law-making processes.
To me, that's a small sacrifice that can be really rewarding.
I strongly hope this will happen, especially for the sake of non-US countries like mine.
There are a lot of comments saying that the blackout should spare non-US countries as it does not affect us. For those who feel this way, please read holmesworcesters comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235431
Not only the USA is pressing hard to "control" the internet. Similar attempts will be made in the EU, in fact, one is already underway. See ACTA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...
If Wikipedia and hopefully Google would really replace their site for one day, it would raise the peoples awareness to such issues dramatically. And if some American politicians lose their jobs over it, some European politicians will keep that in mind when the next "Anti-Internet-Law" (of course it would never be called that way) is proposed.