Ask HN: Have you seen/heard any SOPA blackout discussion on local media?

mapster · on Jan 18, 2012

New York Times / Technology section 1/17/2012 -- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/technology/web-wide-protes...

tokenadult · on Jan 18, 2012

My local newspaper carried a syndicated report about the Wikipedia blackout and its rationale, and what to do about it.

I submitted that link here on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477002

dazbradbury · on Jan 18, 2012

Was front cover of the metro paper today: http://e-edition.metro.co.uk/home.html

Metro is a free, fairly large, UK publication (Over 1.3m copies daily with 3.5m readers.)

pasbesoin · on Jan 18, 2012

The first mention I heard on NPR (National Public Radio) followed Wikipedia's announcement that it would blackout. The brief news segment was poorly written and made it sound like Wikipedia was opposing "anti-piracy measures", but it broke the silence.

I also heard one call in to state public radio. The show host and his guest both knew nothing about the topic (despite the show being a "recent news summary" discussion) and heavily discounted the legislation's significance as well as mistakenly generalizing and presuming that "nothing was likely to pass in the current Congress".

Now that the blackout has raised more coverage, most of it still seems to be skewed towards saying that "some Internet companies" are "opposing anti-piracy measures".

I fear the education process will need to continue for some time.