More than 10,000 Websites-- "Blackout"-- by Congress Today in Protest of NSA Patriot Act

What happens when somebody from the USGOV tries to view GPL from a GOV IP?

Can someone explain this to a non techie I read the article and dont get whats going on

If you banned government from this site, 60% of the comments and posts would go away...Can't have that.

computers from congressional IP addresses were redirected. “We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.”

boo-boo, just posted response to another thread accidentally here, which mentions homeless and poor people being granted free or reduced cost online access, by the government.

patriot act protests
Holmes Wilson, co-founder of Fight for the Future:


More than 10,000 websites blocked users from computers in Congress on Friday, in a demonstration against any possible re-authorization of NSA surveillance powers.

“This is a blackout,” read the site to which computers from congressional IP addresses were redirected. “We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.”

“Right now the code affects only visitors from Congress, we’re willing to keep it up,” said Holmes Wilson, a co-founder of Fight for the Future, the group which wrote the code and is leading the online protest.

The redirect site also includes semi-nude, sometimes explicit photos submitted by people, under the heading: “NSA spying makes me feel naked.”

“We’ll keep blocking sites until either the USA Freedom Act is either dramatically improved or dead, or until the Patriot Act provisions have sunset,” Wilson said, referring to the debate in Congress over whether to let some of the NSA’s full surveillance powers expire on 1 June or to pass a bill, called the USA Freedom Act, that eliminates or changes some of those powers

[link to www.theguardian.com]



I never thought this would happen.




This is a blackout,” read the site to which computers from congressional IP addresses were redirected. “We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.”

What happens when somebody from the USGOV tries to view GPL from a GOV IP?

Damn, I didn't know they had that many websites

If you banned government from this site, 60% of the comments and posts would go away...Can't have that.

[link to www.theguardian.com]



I never thought this would happen.




This is a blackout,” read the site to which computers from congressional IP addresses were redirected. “We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.”

[link to www.theguardian.com]



I never thought this would happen.




This is a blackout,” read the site to which computers from congressional IP addresses were redirected. “We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.”

Interesting question, I'm not sure but probably would be blocked, IDK.