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Stop SOPA – Snippet to turn your site off on January 18, 2012

Posted By Estelle Weyl on January 13, 2012

Black out your own blogs on january in opposition to SOPA. You can do so by adding this script to your site:
Download the code from GitHub
Note: To see it in action before January 18, set your computer clock to the 18th.

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Category: Web Development
Tags: politics, stopsopa


About The Author

Estelle Weyl

My name is Estelle Weyl. I am a consulting web developer, write for Community MX, speak about web development on occasion, and have a full time job as Senior Web Developer for a small startup. I’ve been coding CSS, XHTML, JavaScript and PHP since 1999, tableless CSS since 2003. If you have any recommendations on topics for me to hit, please let me know via comments.

Comments

3 Responses to “Stop SOPA – Snippet to turn your site off on January 18, 2012”

  1. spacer Bernhard Hofmann says:
    January 13, 2012 at 5:49pm

    Interesting idea. I wonder whether it’d be more useful to create a pop-up that explains why all the content on your site is {color:black;background-color:black;} and link to a petition to stop SOPA. With a button to confirm I’ve signed the petition, the black-on-black reverts to your normal style?

    Just thinking that if everyone pulls their content on the 18th I’m going to have a really crap day. :)

  2. spacer Screwlewse says:
    January 13, 2012 at 8:04pm

    You having a crap day is the point. The goal is to show what it would be like WITHOUT the free communication we enjoy today. The SOPA legislation would make you have tons of crap days, as it would give the US government the ability to turn on / off websites/pages at their will. The terms are very broad, as to what makes an infringing website… etc.

  3. spacer Theo says:
    January 23, 2012 at 7:38pm

    I missed this one, however great idea!

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