Femmostroppo Reader – December 23, 2009

by tigtog on December 23, 2009

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

– Yeah, I think we’ll be doing this

The swift takedown of stephenconroy.com.au – Crikey

– A timeline of the extraordinary speed of action by AuDA in this particular instance

The Filter Protests Guide – protest, mandatory internet fitering, internet content filter – Computerworld

– “A look at the protest movements underway against the Federal Government’s ISP-level Internet content filter plan”

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1 Dave Bath December 23, 2009 at 7:56 am: 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.
2 lauredhel December 23, 2009 at 12:37 pm: Can anyone with more javascript knowledge than I explain how this will affect accessibility software users and mobile phone users?
3 tigtog December 23, 2009 at 12:47 pm: 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.