Why Wikipedia blacked out for a day

O'Dwyer shouldn't be extradited to the USA with their record of torturing prisoners (Gitmo as an example). If we can't send that radical muslim back to Jordon for the same reason then no one should be sent to the USA .

DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD!!!!!!!

AMERICA SAID SO!!!!!!!!!!

If you dont then they will rub Davie Camerons belly and tell him to send you to the USA where you will be water boarded for copying files from a computer and burning a CD.

How messed up is the world?

We have bankers who have no consequences
We have terrorists who have free rain to do what they wish
We have murderers and pedophiles
we have disease

But we must clamp down on some spotty youth for copying CD's and TV shows, movies whatever.

We can track the spotty youth down, but we cant get the worlds evil out of their hiding places?

Would also be the end of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Basically, any site where people can post freely will have to be closed. It's nothing to do with piracy, otherwise they'd have to ban DVD/CD Writers, Bluetooth, VCRs, Photocopiers, Video Cameras and Tape Recorders too.

The internet was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee who could have made himself the richest man in history if he'd registered it as a business, Which in turn would have meant tight regulation. He wanted the internet to be free for anyone & everyone. Free from censorship & control by government. Maybe if he had registered it as a business & the US tried these measures the Sir Tim could step in & tell them that if they tried to interfere & censor the internet, He would cut off the internet supply to the US, Public as well as governmental & military internet, & see how they would have reacted to that. I don't know why I'm writing this as Yahfool haven't posted any of my last posts on this subject. Censorship is already a reality.

Shame on twitter and facebook for not joining in!

The censorship has already started..... Yahfool won't print my anti yank censorship posts.

Its got nothing to do with copyright twaddle and EVERYTHING to do with slowly manipulating you into living in a BIG BROTHER society. No freedom of anything. Its already happening slowly and surely, just by typing what others deem is not acceptable you can be arrested now for f*cks sake.

How can an American law be enforced worldwide? Who made them the makers of world law?

the title shouldnt be why wikipedia, it should be why Yahoo and Google didnt ?

These elite who are trying to shut the people up are the criminals, not us the people,they are trying to stop the truth being heard about all there corrupt dealings, but the truth will allways winout in the end.

Does anyone find it a bit hypocritical that the very person who wrote out this bill, Lamar Smith, had a copyrighted photograph as his website background that belongs to a Flickr user named DJ Schulte? Nice to see that online thievery should only be practised by the high and mighty.

and the yanks get it all wrong again!!!!!

The unelected banking elites don't want you to know about their crime spree. They don't want you to know that they are the ones running the government. They don't want you to know that they counterfeit their money out of thin air. They don't want you to know that they are the ones demanding austerity for YOU!

They don't want you to know that we are a Kelptocracy NOT a democracy.

Land of the free?.....my ar#e

Unfortunatly this looks like another example of "if you cant catch the criminals, criminalise the innocent".

fact is online is needing better policing wether it piracy,online,scam,unregulated poker sites etc

I always thought at the core of the American belief was freedom of speech. If this law passes it would appear they're choosing to go down the route of China, censorship for everybody. If that is so then they have no right to criticise any other country in the world.

As for the exportation of British citizens to the United States. I think that just proves what track the USA is on. They wrongly believe they're centre of the entire world and that nobody can do anything without them. I also think that within the next ten or twenty years. The USA is going to become a police state. Because big corporations are taken control over everything, from local council's to the national government.

@Edo it does not take a genius to know this is bad. the legislation is so vague and overbearing, it could do horrible things. be GLAD you can comment here. because if SOPA/PIPA passes, then you will not have that right.

for example, if I were to, say, explaim that The Pirate Bay's IP address is: 194.71.XXX.XX (without the censored numbers), this ENTIRE website could be, and would be brought down. just for one person posting one link. and I would go to jail for FIVE YEARS for posting it, if I were in the USA.

It's a pathetic and stupid attempt to control the internet. end of. no other argument holds water, because all it takes is one comment. only one comment, to take down the entire site. that is too much, and would DESTROY the internet.

NOT TO MENTION, the number of editors for wikipedia is pretty much countless. I'm sure at least one is an expert on law, let alone the thousand other users, or even anonymous law experts, editing through their IPs.

there's no way this lad should be sent to America. Google facilitate the same thing why havn't they been stopped, there'll be no justice for a nonnational in USA

Hollywood's loss of revenue is not due to online piracy, it's more to do with the rubbish films it now produces. Can anyone think of a current release that's more exciting to watch than paint drying? Most Hollywood releases are as boring as a porno film, when you have seen one, you have seen them all.