If you have missed the season One of Project Octopus, you have probably missed a very exciting polar that involves politics, big companies, and internet users. I guess this will turn out to be one of those movies where a conspiracy to control the world is on the way. While I started writing this movie scenario, reality far outpaces my imagination (having watched “24 hours” with Kiefer Sutherland, I think I’ve got some “small knowledge” of how those spy and conspiracy scenarios can be)
So let’s go back to the initial 2 minutes of rewind of my movie, you know, that first two or three minutes in those series where they just reminds you of the highlights of the last episode. The communication war has begun. Anti-SOPA fervents have deployed a lot of tools (avatars, browser plugins alerting on sites that support SOPA, petitions, …). They even planned a blackout day that went on January 18th 2012. While I didn’t take the time to make an exhaustive list of sites who observed that blackout day, I could find that Wikipedia actually showed a black page and couldn’t be browsed, on Flickr (part of the yahoo network), each of my photos came with a note about SOPA, … I guess the day was too short to find out who else observed it.
As it is common with good movies, there are always intense and very active periods. This was also the case with the SOPA act. In fact, just before the January 18th, the Obama administration made a statement on SOPA. Then, a communication went out that the SOPA won’t be presented as-it-is now to the Senate. So people thought it’d be over. Anyway, the January 18th blackout still went on. Right after that, I’ve read that the SOPA discussion will resume on February. Read More
