There were lots of Spanish speakers yesterday who were confused about such a big protest over soup. Surely soup is a delicious and wholesome meal that everyone loves? Sure, it’s not really a proper main course and should only be served as a starter in the opinion of many – but is that really enough reason to blackout wikipedia? [/end lameness]
My thoughts? Leaving aside for one moment my opinion on the actual detail of the act – what about the awesomeness of people who care, eh? What about all those people who have taken time out of their lives to campaign for something? Yes, there’s definitely a lot of self interest involved (Wikipedia want the freedom to be able to link to whoever they choose, for example) but there’s also just a lot of average people just saying, “you know what I don’t like that. I’m going to start an organisation to campaign against it.” Amazing. For all we hear about the apathy of “people these days”, there’s an awful lot of anti-apathy too. I mean, just look at this site http://americancensorship.org/ and at all the logos at the bottom. Those are real organizations, that have taken blood, sweat and tears to set-up, done mainly because some people care about things. My thoughts on the SOPA blackout day .. well done to those that care.
