huh?

[ratcreature]

So I've read about the English Wikipedia being blacked out today to protest that internet legislation, and wanted to see how it looks, but I can see it like always? So do they only black it out in the US? I'm confused.

Unrelated, I was totally right about the formula "McAvoy + sloths = insta-popularity".

Comments

[mecurtin]

I'm not sure if it's only in the US, or only in English -- what do you see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ?

The point being, it's not your government planning this, nor is there anything you can do, really.

[ratcreature]

Well, I see this when I go to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page":


And I realize that it is a US law, but I always find it grating when internet pages automatically tailor content based on your IP address and a guessed location, instead of treating everyone equally and letting you choose what local information is most useful. Mostly of course because it's mainly used for annoying geoblocking that prevents you from seeing music videos and trailers and such.

[ratcreature]

On LJ someone pointed out that you need to have javascript turned on to see the blockout message really blocking anything. Once I NoScript off for the page, I saw the blacked out screen I've seen in screencaps. So the difference is not a geographical thing.

[astridv]

Ahh, that explains why I could view everywhere I went just fine.

[some_stars]

This is my favorite sloth combo so far. They match so perfectly!

(deleted and replaced for THE ACTUAL URL /o\)

[rosaw]

That gave me much delight also!

[ratcreature]

Yes, the more often I combine the two, the more affinity there seems to be!

my take on sopa

[jodpuralley]

http://jodpuralley.dreamwidth.org/975.html

Re: my take on sopa

[jodpuralley]

p.s. i love that you were wiki search nick drake. nick was cool before there was cool.
jpa

Re: my take on sopa

[ratcreature]

I didn't search for Nick Drake, that just happened to be the featured article on the blackout day when I took the screencap, so it was on the mainpage.

Re: my take on sopa

[jodpuralley]

: )
well, if you don't know him, you should check out nick drake. he was amazing!

[salamandersfire.livejournal.com]

Depends on your javascript settings apparently, and the mobile and app sites are not blocked anayway.
It's fairly easy to bypass on a normal PC anyway.

[ratcreature]

Aha! Once I turned on javascript I saw the blackout message. Thanks for explaining the reason.