Wow. I really think that of the sites that have decided to go black, or even put banners up... this is the one that's likely to affect the most people who need to hear about this. Fingers crossed.
Incredibly so. I am a bit disappointed about the content of the info page: I don't think it tells much to somebody hearing about it for the first time.
It's weird how it loads the page and then goes black.
I wonder if that's for SEO purposes, or if they've intentionally done that to get the emotional reaction it gives me... I feel like I dropped my ice cream cone every time I load a page and it goes black.
I have to admit that of all the ideas I had of how to black-out a big site like wikipedia a simple overlay never occurred to me, but its brilliant, not really disturbing SEO or any other service that is built on top of Wikipedia, congrats
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 57.5 ms ] threadI wonder if that's for SEO purposes, or if they've intentionally done that to get the emotional reaction it gives me... I feel like I dropped my ice cream cone every time I load a page and it goes black.
You can turn off javascript to see the original.
They've also made the entire site read-only, so even though you can read stuff you can't make any changes.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477966
javascript:$('#mw-page-base, #mw-head-base, #content, #mw-head, #mw-panel, #footer').show();$('#mw-sopaOverlay').hide()