Wired Magazine Blacks Out

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by sethbannon • 15 years ago

191 10 15 years ago

pedalpete• 15 years ago

Very well done, I wish google would have done something creative like this. Don't remove all the content, but make sure people have to take extra action to see it. Make them feel what it may be like to live in a world where information is censored.

It makes you know that their are things here that you can't see, but you only have to take a small action to see them.

zerostar07• 15 years ago

These pseudo-blackouts help raise a point, but the truth is that unless the site goes down, information blocked, people don't realize just how bad censorship really is.

gala8y2• 15 years ago

That's why I believe Wiki has made a very good move to really go dark. I knew it was about to happen, yet got stopped trying to check some facts on Labrador Retrievers. It's 'no-jokes' compared to 'navigating in black...? interesting.'

phalasz• 15 years ago

I agree with both of your points.

I do agree that the solution wired used is really creative and cool and will raise the point. Also I think that what wikipedia did on the english pages proves a stronger point since they don't give you a mechanism to uncensore the page.

fauldsh• 15 years ago

I think this is a good compromise between allowing their business to run for the day and getting the message to as many people as possible. I particularly like this style of black-out because it's so visually powerful.

biot• 15 years ago

Is it too much to hope that OnSwipe will follow suit and protest SOPA by permanently disabling its functionality on all sites?

anoother• 15 years ago

Brave of them to black-out even the ads...

Wired Magazine Blacks Out

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