Hacker News Blacking Out Logo

Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. &#60;/sarcasm&#62;<p>Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? <i>We're</i> aware of it already. Is it really <i>that</i> exciting?

I'm not from the US. Is there anything I can do to help oppose SOPA/PIPA?<p>So far I've assumed I'm not eligible to call US senators/ congressmen, or sign the whitehouse.gov petition. Am I wrong about this? Is there anything else I can do instead?<p>All the blackout messages I've seen today don't appear to have much info for the rest of the English-speaking world about what we can do to help.

Ought to black out all the headlines. Stand at the same level as Wikipedia and co. even if it's trivial to bypass.

Is there anything to actually have a discussion about relating to this? Seems too navel gazing to me.

Hacker News should go dark for the day. Site participation in the blackout is not just to inform users but to garner news media coverage of SOPA. Thousands of conscientious sites around the net are participating but Hacker News isn't.

The tab title also accidently got &#60;span&#62;'d

I'm not from the US and I thought someone important died again.

OooooOooo... A black background with grey text! That's some pretty radical protesting right there. Should've turned off HN for 12 hours instead.

It's a good thing that twitter is not blocked, it helps spread the news about the protest. They could add at least a small notice though. Blacking out hacker news is mostly symbolic preaching to the choir.

When is Facebook going to participate? We already have Google and Wikipedia, it seems like Twitter and Facebook would also be all over this.

I like this color scheme lol, but in all seriousness - I'm glad to see HN participating.

Maybe shuting down a couple hours is better than this, but the fact is people notice it

Is there any plans for Bing to do the same, like Google did to protest against SOPA?

Tech Crunch like HN is black, but not blacked out. Are these different messages?

Any response to SOPA is better than none.

ooo racey

This, along with the normal hell-banning of innocent user accounts.

Whoa... Meta