should we go dark to show solidarity on the Makerspace site tomorrow?

[Thomas Asmuth]

Here's a js I adapted for my sites for tomorrow, it will add soon as the date flips at midnight tonight.

<script>

//Adapted by Thomas Asmuth please see below for original script

// Rich Jones of Gun.io, public domain. Fork me, please! http://github.com/Miserlou/

var now = new Date();

if (now.getDate() == 18 && now.getMonth() == 0 && now.getFullYear() == 2012) {

    window.onload = function(){

      var oBody = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]; 

      oBody.style.cssText = "background: #000000; text-align: center; color: #999999; font: 2.2em Helvetica; vertical-align: middle"; 

      oBody.innerHTML = '<div style="width: 960px; margin: 0 auto;"><br /><br />This website has...<br /> <br /><div style="color: #F00">GONE DARK TODAY!</div><br />...in protest of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA)legislation which threatens the freedoms of websites like this one and the freedoms of the people who use them.<br /><br />The U.S. Congress is about to censor the Internet, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed.<br /><br />Learn more at <a href="http://americancensorship.org/">AmericanCensorship.org</a><br /><br />(And don\'t worry, we\'ll be back in business tomorrow!)</div>'; 

  

    }

}

</script>

--
Thomas Asmuth
Assistant Professor
Digital/New Media, Department  of Art
University of West Florida
tas...@uwf.edu

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[Selroth]

Well, the entire idea of going dark is to promote awareness.  I'm fairly confident we won't be seeing much traffic on any version of the website tomorrow, and of that traffic we do get I'm sure will already be aware of SOPA and PROTECT IP.

I'd rather not lose a day of developing the site :)

-Brian

[SteveK]

Going dark? Personally I think Wikipedia going dark is scary. To think
that for any reason a keeper of knowledge would suddenly shut down and
use control of the information as a political weapon. It will be
horribly effective though, Wikipedia's countdown banner gets me madder
at the proposed laws than reading about them ever did. To sum it up: I
agree with you Selroth, it's about impact.

On Jan 17, 9:46 pm, Selroth <selroth.kas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the entire idea of going dark is to promote awareness.  I'm fairly
> confident we won't be seeing much traffic on any version of the website
> tomorrow, and of that traffic we do get I'm sure will already be aware of
> SOPA and PROTECT IP.
>
> I'd rather not lose a day of developing the site :)
>
> -Brian
>

> > tasm...@uwf.edu
>
> > Studio
> >http://kidneutrino.blogspot.com
> > thomas.asm...@gmail.com