Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- How to black out your website – The Great Australian Internet Blackout
- The swift takedown of stephenconroy.com.au – Crikey
- The Filter Protests Guide – protest, mandatory internet fitering, internet content filter – Computerworld
– Yeah, I think we’ll be doing this
– A timeline of the extraordinary speed of action by AuDA in this particular instance
– “A look at the protest movements underway against the Federal Government’s ISP-level Internet content filter plan”
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The kiwis did this a while back against the “three strikes” law that cut your connection after three ACCUSATIONS of pirate downloading – even without proof. (Law got through parliament, but was pulled about a month later).
They also did a “black out facebook”, replacing your facebook (or similar) profile photo with solid black.
Can anyone with more javascript knowledge than I explain how this will affect accessibility software users and mobile phone users?
It should work similarly to to the script that calls the corner No Clean Feed banner up there to the right. I imagine that it will be rather like a shadowbox overlay, with some text to explain the protest and then a box to click to close the overlay.
I’d like to see a running demo though, for testing. I’ve installed it over on tigtog.net, but it must be time-sensitive, because nothing’s showing up yet.