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i know i see it everywhere, but is it not only in America?
I'm not in the U.S. Why does this affect me?Many of the sites that you may use (e.g. Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.) are all affected by this law and will be required to hide offending domains from you.If a non-U.S. site is blocked in the U.S., the site could suffer financially or even be bankrupted by the loss of U.S. traffic and revenue.
Quote from: leo9101 on 18 Jan 2012, 16:47:57i know i see it everywhere, but is it not only in America?As taken from reddit's down page:QuoteI'm not in the U.S. Why does this affect me?Many of the sites that you may use (e.g. Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.) are all affected by this law and will be required to hide offending domains from you.If a non-U.S. site is blocked in the U.S., the site could suffer financially or even be bankrupted by the loss of U.S. traffic and revenue.
Quote from: ItsLawrence on 18 Jan 2012, 16:51:41Quote from: leo9101 on 18 Jan 2012, 16:47:57i know i see it everywhere, but is it not only in America?As taken from reddit's down page:QuoteI'm not in the U.S. Why does this affect me?Many of the sites that you may use (e.g. Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.) are all affected by this law and will be required to hide offending domains from you.If a non-U.S. site is blocked in the U.S., the site could suffer financially or even be bankrupted by the loss of U.S. traffic and revenue. Lawrence is correct, I am from the US and although this is mainly toward the US it will affect everyone. For example if this site was blocked noobstown would lose more than 50% of its members. If I am not mistaken the S.O.P.A. act is trying to be passed to stop people from stealing copyrighted items. (Just incase you didn't know) So all the music you hear on Youtube that has been upload by a random person will be gone. This is a very big deal and hope it won't interfere with my access to noobcraft!Another thing according from what I have heard , the USA president Barack Obama is opposed on passing of this law, so it may be unlikely this falls into play.
to be honest i thought lawrence would have made something special for the site to where it cencors msot things like the noobscraft banner at the top, or other things
The following post is my own personal view and not the view of Noobscraft.com or the Noobstown server...Quote from: StainedBlock on 18 Jan 2012, 22:54:50to be honest i thought lawrence would have made something special for the site to where it cencors msot things like the noobscraft banner at the top, or other thingsDespite my view against the policy, Noobscraft.com is politically natural currently and so expressing our own view via the site may not always be suitable.I am also of the view that while this policy is not suitable, I believe that most people who are protesting have blown it significantly out of proportion and that it is very unlikely that most sites will become blocked as a part of it.Also not wanting to go against the post I made above, but only a proportion of Noobscraft traffic and members are from the US and for all our members to suffer as a result of this may not be fair, plus Noobscraft is a primarily UK ran site with all admins living and operating from the UK.
P.I.P.A and S.O.P.A protest and rebellion. (Read 2952 times)