Websites of SOPA-supporting congressmen redirect to Protest SOPA

by peterzakin • 15 years ago

61 9 15 years ago

Couldn't this confuse people into thinking that those congresspeople don't support SOPA?

MrEnigma• 15 years ago

This was my first reaction. People visiting the web and seeing all kinds of SOPA/PIPA hate, now will automatically assume these same guys support SOPA.

Better would be to redirect them to a page that says, THIS GUY SUPPORTS SOPA/PIPA.

Best would probably be to not squat on the domains.

coob• 15 years ago

I don't think this is a good idea it's almost certainly passing off [1] which is illegal.

Not to mention confusing.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off

gwillen• 15 years ago

I don't think it can be passing-off without goods or services being involved. There's probably some tort here, though...

vannevar• 15 years ago

As a political protest, this would likely be protected speech. Free speech is after all supposed to be the rule, not the exception. I am surprised though that a professional politician and his staff could be so out of touch with the web that they never registered their names as domain names.

jessriedel• 15 years ago

You can just append "?banner=none" to the URL to prevent the banner from appearing. The mobile version is annoying.

AzAngel• 15 years ago

This page has been taken down. edit- at least that is what I am seeing when I try.

jaylevitt• 15 years ago

This is:

(a) unimpressive, because it's obvious that you went and registered a bunch of domains with a version of their name that they don't use (christopher, benjamin, melvin, middle initial, etc), and

(b) a bad idea, because at best it's lulz for geeks in the know, but at worst it's "SOPA opponents have gone too far: they hacked web sites of the U.S. government!"

Lose it.

peterzakin• 15 years ago

ftr, I didn't do it. But I do think it's smirk-worthy. To each his own.

Websites of SOPA-supporting congressmen redirect to Protest SOPA

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