It is questionable that Obama has changed the world, but yes Google did.
Yesterday
Wikipedia closed up their digital doors in English, together with
10,000 web sites that serve as gateways to the Internet, united to
protest against the US anti-piracy law, considered by the united Net to
be short-sighted politic. Imagine opening the computer but not able to
connect to any friends, contacts, suppliers or clients, not able to get
supplies or pay bills because Paypal was closed; not able to obtain
information because Google, Yahoo and Firefox were on strike. They
couldn't access the Net because service providers are disconnected.
Essentially
this was a demonstration of muscles. An appetiser to what might happen
if the Internet industry unit their forces to defend their interests.
Wikipedia staged a total blackout for 24 hours. The announcement of the
Strike had a very eloquent message: Advice to students: 'Finish your
homework quickly. Wikipedia will close on Wednesday the 18th, against a
malignant law.'
The
first great scale net Strike will change the strong relationship
between users and proprietors. The latter ought to learn to do business
with the former, without them being the clients. Altogether a
challenge. A historic challenge.
A
sizeable part of the Spanish Internet users had joined the rejection
of US project of for the law of anti-piracy, closing up also their web
pages, debating in forums, and launching their claims through Twitter.
The president of the Association of Internet users, Victor Domingo,
declared to Efe that a hundred Spanish webs participated in the
blackout.
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