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[Jaap Broekhuizen <jaapz.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

If someone could make a mockup of such a page, then i don't think the web
team would have any trouble creating a temporary static html page of
that... 7 days should be very doable! So only thing is that we have to
agree whether or not we want to do this...

I totally agree with doing this!

Jaap

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Daniel Fore <daniel.p.fore@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> I guess Reddit is going to do a blackout on the 18th where the whole sight
> will be replaced with a single page describing what's wrong with SOPA and
> how you can contact Congress and fight it.
>
> I think we (even though we're small) could make a few waves by
> participating in this blackout and doing something similar.
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Foré
>
> www.elementaryos.org
>
> On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I hardly think we wouldn't be affected by it. We use Facebook, Google
> (plus, docs, search, mail, etc), Twitter, YouTube, etc to reach our users
> and they are all affected.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Daniel Foré
> >
> > www.elementaryos.org
> >
> > On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Сергей <shnatsel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I can't see SOPA/PIPA directly affecting elementary. We hardly have
> >> any user-posted content on the website, and the one we have tends to
> >> be freely licensed. We do rely on external services like imagebin,
> >> pastebin, etc, but that's not vital and we could probably host
> >> something similar ourselves. Fortunately, SOPA/PIPA don't seem to
> >> allow boundless patent abuse [yet], so Apple and Microsoft's puppet
> >> consorciums won't be able to instantly shut us down either, the best
> >> thing they can do is not mentioning us (like they do with WINE).
> >> So I'd rather not tie it into elementary and instead present it as
> >> being out of our scope and not affecting us directly, but crippling
> >> the overall UX.
> >>
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