Ask PG: Could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243187

by Archio • 15 years ago

144 24 15 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

http://americancensorship.org/

genieyclo2• 15 years ago

Why?

Torn• 15 years ago

Because the ideas behind freedom of speech and 'routing around damage' are the main reasons behind the Internet's success.

genieyclo2• 15 years ago

I don't see what exactly changing y18.gif would accomplish...

Happy feelings? Seems like you're preaching to the choir.

Achshar2• 15 years ago

if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup community) can't do it.

benbscholz3• 15 years ago

I think the HN crowd is more aware of SOPA than the visitors to those sites, but I think adding to the banner couldn't hurt (some people may have missed the SOPA stories from the last week).

brudgers3• 15 years ago

PG almost certainly can do it.

But that sort of editorializing does not seem consistent with the culture which has grown up around HN.

tristan_louis• 15 years ago

Here's the question. Is it editorializing when your own existence is put in question?

Under SOPA, HN could be taken down with a simple link. One could create an account, post a link to some copyrighted material and then ask that HN be removed blocked at the DNS level.

So if HN is not willing to stand for that, what is willing to stand for?

larrys2• 15 years ago

"If ... can do it"

Of all of the above companies you listed, as of right now, it's only on reddit.com

JoshTriplett• 15 years ago

http://boingboing.net/?p=129579

Check out the logos at the bottom.

Achshar2• 15 years ago

from "can do it" i meant publicly oppose the bill and not just change the logo. Sorry for the confusion. PS Mozilla also changed the logo.

dayjah• 15 years ago

They're conducting YC interviews atm, I doubt this'll even be noticed; I hope it is though.

tptacek3• 15 years ago

Doesn't that just beg everyone to submit SOPA stories to the site? Have we learned anything at all new about SOPA in the past 24 hours?

Archio• 15 years ago

Read benbsholz's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243628)...

It really doesn't hurt to remind people about this and make sure they take action. The future of open source software is at the core of HN, and it could really get affected by this legislation.

tptacek3• 15 years ago

Is that a "no"? Because (if it wasn't obvious) that's what I suspect to be the case about these SOPA stories: that they tend to contain little if any new information about SOPA.

suivix• 15 years ago

Could we not turn HN into an activist site? Thanks.

coderdude• 15 years ago

One of the few sites where people really care about this issue and half the comments in this thread are people wondering why we should even bother. I'd laugh if I wasn't so disappointed in you.

maeon3• 15 years ago

Put down that book citizen, there are copyrighted words in there that you haven't paid for yet. Dont make me taze you.

It's coming, sooner or later, the only thing we can do is fight it like alcohol drinkers did with prohibition.

Ask PG: Could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?

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