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.