Category: SOPA

Tech News Of The Week: Blackpedia, RIP Megaupload, and more

This week has been extremely stuffed with tech news. Here are all of the headlines I can possibly call from memory. Wikipedia Goes Dark- Wikipedia, Reddit, and thousands of other websites went dark on Wednesday in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills. These efforts apparently worked too, and tons of Senators and congressman have gone from public support to public dissaproval of the...

The Pirate Bay Releases Serious PIPA/SOPA Statement as bills struggle

SOPA and PIPA have been losing supporters and co-sponsors left and right over recent days. It seems almost impossible for it to pass, and yet this was a close call. Never again (For a while) shall the government think they have the right to censor the people. Marko Rubio and several former co-sponsors of PIPA have come out against it as have several congressmen...

How To Really Stop PIPA

Bringing poltical change is grassroots so we need everyone to contact their local representitives by phone and email with their concerns. Flood their inboxes. Show them you care. Get your friends to do the same. Do the same times 10 to the senate. Senators barely use the web. Flood them with petitions. Use congress+ for iphone to get their aids’ emails and flood them...

Wikipedia To Go Black At Midnight

In protest of SOPA and PIPA Wikipedia will go black for all of January 18th. To show this website’s support of the Anti- SOPA movement I will be blacking out the look of our website for a few days along with our censorship banner which has been up since December. The website will still be accessible but the template will be black to show...

A Day in the Life of a Twitter Employee (Thanks @sampullara)

Thanks to Sam Pullara at Twitter for the info. Here’s the Schedule (AKA The Real World) of a Twitter Engineer: Enjoy 🙂 7:30 AM Wake Up and eat breakfast. 9 AM Work. Start Coding in Intelij. Continue typing on keyboard until lunch. 12:30 PM Lunch? This is apparently an occasion in which employees of a company eat a meal in the middle of the...