Well our SOPA blackout protest is over! The site went dark for over 20 hours (midnight to 9PM) to help raise awareness about the SOPA/PIPA legislation that they’re trying to force through.
Hopefully you guys had a chance to check out some of the information on our blackout page and took the time to contact your local Senator, but if not be sure to stop by AmericanCensorship.org to learn more about these internet crippling bills and what you can do to help prevent them from being passed!
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Posted by Shawn Handyside on January 18, 2012 · 9:24 PM
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Email your video game related LOLZ to and if it's good we'll post it!
Did you know the site has over 2,500 video game themed lolz? 
Never leave me again, Halolz!
The single greatest and most important thing Halolz has ever done.
It never left you…
it was just taken away by Amurrika.
Which is really sad cause we're the land of freedom.
Can't let you ██ that ███████.
Whatever asshole thought SOPA was a good idea, I hope he dies a death of 1000 blue shells. I could never stand to see a community like you guys be torn apart.
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His name is Lamar Smith and he likes long walks on the beach, and HEAVILY pissing off an entire generation of people.
"AMERICA, FUCK YEAH, McDONALDS- FUCK YEAH, SOPA- FUCK… yeah?"
SOPA and/or PIPA: FUCK NO!!!
I was trying to find something with Wolf and Sopa, but failed.
Will this suffice?
Don't forget to buy your pitchforks and torches at your local angry mob store when you go and hunt this guy down!
Good news is, the amount of senators opposed to SOPA and PIPA practically quadrupled as a result of this- according to OpenCongress, before everyone shut their websites down, only five senators opposed SOPA and PIPA to 35 who supported it. Now it jumped to 30 nays against 35 yays (and this is before the bills go up for vote), as well as a grand total of 102 organizations (102 for each bill) who have expressed outright disgust.
And it's all because we stuck through with the blackout. Can I get a mass "Whoop, whoop"?
(by the way, for a full list of opposing groups, go here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money )"
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I thank you Halolz for participating the blackout.
This bill needs to be destroyed.
Fun fact: VGCats also participated in the blackout.
I sure am glad that I didn't have to write any last minute reports today.
Fun fact: There is nowhere near the amount of facepalms in the world to equal all the stupidity that SOPA and PIPA produced.
BONUS FACTS: Anyone ever watch the Party Rock Anthem music video? It has copyrighted cars in it. Watch the Hangover II lately? No? Some other movie probably has billboards with products owned by other companies though. Hypocrisy: America Haz Them.
i found it easier just signing the online petition i'm pretty sure if you google it will show up
LOL "Online petition" now prevented by…the very thing you were trying to prevent.
So did The Oatmeal.
<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/sopa/sopa.gif">
But VGCats had a good one too. :P
I will stop browsing teh █████████
IN ███████!
What about turning pizza into a vegetable? Pretty damn close man…
I was glad Halolz participated in the blackout, but thanks for the heads-up, Shawn. >:U
If this bill passes it's just another piece of evidence that our Congress has its head so far up its ass it could kiss the back of its own teeth.
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I found that amusing.
Scumbag Lamar Smith: Writes bill to censor copyrighted material on the internet, uses photograph on his website without the photographer's knowledge.
Source: http://www.vice.com/read/lamar-smith-sopa-copyrig…
Equestria Daily as well. More or less, I suppose. While Seth was tied up, we had The Great and Powerful Trixie to keep us company.
*Tips hat*
Well done, Shawn. Well done indeed.
http://derpy.me/sahnictehhedgehogz
No █████████ in the ████████ is going to ████ me!
Which reminds me to ask someone on the intertubes.
If you have pepperoni and/or sausage on a pizza, is it a vegetable as well?
THE BEST THING I HAVE SEEN ALL FUCKING WEEK!!
It was the best Drawfriend ever today.
Note:
SOPA (H.R. 3261) is the House version. The people there are called "representatives" or "congressmen/congresswomen."
PIPA (S. 968) is the Senate version. Those are the people who are called "senators."
If you're going to be sending angry, frothing messages, make sure you complain about the right bill to the right people.
And sadly, SEGA supports the ESA who supports SOPA and PIPA.
Great people making stupid choices…
Also I'm pretty sure if companies get enough emails from fans that are annoyed at something about/in a game and fix the problems, they will definitely listen to them if it is about their consumer's possibility to protest buying their games and attending/reporting about E3.
I actually used it to write a last minute report, hooray for a class built entirely around current event assignments
Did you notice what I did? The Supporting congressmen/women have more money supporting them than the opposition.
Someone once said to me that you cannot buy people- is it foul play if I call bullshit now?
Also, I see Walmart in the supporters list… What the fuck do they gain if it passes?
well, if it's passed, couldn't they just bring it to the supreme court, I mean if that doesn't qualify as infringing free speech, I'm moving to China, where at least they are honest about stomping out people's rights
C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
It's more impactful when it's a surprise, right?
That saucy image was too much, through. I had to close the tab in 0.1 seconds.
VGCats participated in the blackout. But only the six people who checked for an update today knew that prior to this post.
My friend Steve would disagree. He tried using Wikipedia today…the poor bastard. We then had to explain to him via text and Facebook about how politics works and we had to remind him that Wikipedia isn't really a good academic source to begin with…(keep in mind, this guy is a junior in college like I am). Bottom line, he didn't care and was pissed at Wikipedia, not SOPA and PIPA (although, after a MUCH longer talk session, we somehow convinced him to be pissed off at all three).
And I thought us college students were supposed to care about this…
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Better get all your pirating out of your system now, guys.
This…
On the topic of never updating…
NEW CIVIL PROTECTION!!!
There were so many non saucy + funny pics though…
Meh, I'm just going to make him bald with my orbital laser. I have to be careful though, one slight miscalculation could result in no head at all. Not sure if anyone would notice.
I can't think of something witty, so I default to Novus-ism. 4chan is dickbutts.
Edit: Waitaminute. I wrote SOPA. Somebody been haxorzing my account!
Or maybe I just accidentally typed in 4chan because I was going to write 4chan-ism instead of Novus-ism. Whoopsiedaisie!
I usually just refer to them as dumbasses. It's close enough.
No, now you're being offensive to the dumbasses. Politicians tend to be called freedom wreckers.
Did you use the downtime to work on the forums?
When you say 'get it out of your system', do you mean do it now before SOPA/PIPA make it impossible, or do you mean to wipe it from our system before SOPA/PIPA send law enforcement to take us to jail for five years?
I swear to the Goddesses that if that little comment on the bottom of the page comes true…
I WILL find you.
And you WILL regret it.
Aw, man. I didn't see EQDaily during the blackout.
SHAWN! It was horrible! The internet was blacked out and I had to go out into the place the people called the "Real World." It was so cold and lonely out there with no sense of humor! I'm not sure I can reintegrate back into internet society. The time out there changed me.
Shawn, I hope you never have to black out Halolz again. Without Halolz, I had to go to other websites. Have you ever been to other websites? They're scary. There was like, a bunch of naked people and stuff and I didn't know what was going on.
I liked the Chrono Trigger reference you had on the page.
Even though I had to look it up.
Can´t let you Brew that sopa!
But you can see it now, can't you? http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/sopapipatri…
It's not like it getting censored in nearest future anyway, hehehe-ehhh…
Stupid Humans! Instead of wasting their efforts creating these stupid laws, why don't they use it to something more useful, like researching the power of Sardines!?
You could actually still use Wikipedia by adding an "m" to the link to access the mobile site through your browser, although I'm sure not a lot of people cared to find out and they were just really pissed at Wikipedia instead.
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… Either?
All my internetz belong to the person that made that, though for sharing that, I'm giving you some of them.
Oh. I figured by now its version of the blackout would be over like everyone else's version of the blackout. Actually, I think explosm is still blacked out.
Yes.
Or, recently, Dickbutts.
Keep calm and play videogames