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:*Block the entire English Wikipedia for 1 month, replaced by a page with an explanation along with companies to boycott like GoDaddy. Give it an inclusive name if you'd like to encourage other websites to join the boycott. So many people use Wikipedia that an example of what restrictions to information feels like might encourage them to do something other than sit. --[[User:JackNapierX|JackNapierX]] ([[User talk:JackNapierX|talk]]) 19:24, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
'''Please don't punish me!''' I am a citizen of Romania, living in Romania (which is a country in Eastern Europe), I can do nothing about SOPA. I don't deserve to be punished with a MONTH-long (for goodness sake, an entire month?) ban on reading Wikipedia articles, which has become a pretty important part of my dayly activities. Like me there are so many readers and users of English Wikipedia around the world. I know that there are no actual "rights" for Wikipedia readers, other than to fork and to close the site and stop looking at it, but if you guys do this you will become exactly what you say you fight against: evil government. I was beginning to regard Wikimedia FOundation as a friend. To me, to others like me to the entire community. A friend does not do this to you. Not only I have nothing to do with SOPA and nothing to do with anyone who would even remotely profit from SOPA, I am '''powerless to do anything''' about it. And I have trouble understanding why I'm being punished for something that foreign politicians and corporatocracies are doing. I mean, again I understand the whole thing that WF does not owe any of us readers and editors, but please, this? '''[[User:Nabla|Nabla]] ([[User talk:Nabla|talk]]) is right with his irony''': block Wikipedia forever, that would show them! Oh, wait a second have we just stabbed ourselves in the gut?[[Special:Contributions/79.112.59.92|79.112.59.92]] ([[User talk:79.112.59.92|talk]]) 23:29, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
::I haven't seen anyone else suggest a month-long black-out other than the above user ([[User:JackNapierX|JackNapierX]]} so I wouldn't be that worried about it. I think the only kind of black-out which is being seriously considered would last for a much shorter period of time, perhaps 24 hours, or possibly up to a few days, and it wouldn't necessarily have to be world-wide. Having said that, as someone who also does not live in the US I don't agree with your viewpoint that the purpose (or effect) of a black-out is to "punish" users, that SOPA has nothing to do with anyone outside of the US and that those outside the US are unable to have any effect on whether the bill is passed. It is very important to get public and media attention world-wide. Public and media pressure from both inside and outside the US could definitely have an effect. And there may be a side benefit in that perhaps people outside of the US would educate themselves about similar proposed bills in their own country. In addition, SOPA will affect people outside the US. -[[User:MsBatfish|MsBatfish]] ([[User talk:MsBatfish|talk]]) 06:36, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
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