The intent is clearly to nod in the direction of the inconvenience of a world suddenly without Wikipedia, without actually making us suffer such a fate.
And, of course, if Wikipedia actually managed to find a way to successfully prevent people from reading wikipedia content for a day they would be massively undermining their own position. A big part of the argument against SOPA is “it will not work to prevent copyright infringement anyway!” An actual successful block on all wikipedia content would amount to “OK guys, this is how it is really done!”
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The thing is… why even call it a ‘blackout’?
The intent is clearly to nod in the direction of the inconvenience of a world suddenly without Wikipedia, without actually making us suffer such a fate.
And, of course, if Wikipedia actually managed to find a way to successfully prevent people from reading wikipedia content for a day they would be massively undermining their own position. A big part of the argument against SOPA is “it will not work to prevent copyright infringement anyway!” An actual successful block on all wikipedia content would amount to “OK guys, this is how it is really done!”
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