Wikipedia SOPA Protest Is Driving Students Mad. Plus, Obama Hires Bain 'Corporate Raider'

[Agentinuthedeathgod]

i heard they are trying to get rid of youtube and gamemaker...Fucking dicks

[KeeperoftheRing]

if you pressed Escape on Wikipedia before it put up the message, you could access it.. Blame the developers.

[Neosaigo]

Try again, the reason why it worked for the Daily Show is fact checking and sensible humor.

I give you 6 out of 10, since you got a chuckle out of me with some punchlines, but that was it.

Keep at it.

[Mathenaut]

Pretty inane humor. It's like...A pitiful attempt to mock successful satire in news.

[Siegetower]

"Democrats and union leaders...forgive the redundancy" - HA great comment.

[minifig2401]

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! take that copyright jerks!!!!!!!!

[wcdjmase]

They failed to mention the 7000+ other websites that participated in the online protest. 

[zvi303]

@wcdjmase This is basically the way it was shown i n the regular media, with a mention of a few other sites.

P.S. It didn't stop us at the office. Our firewall is so strong that we end up in handheld mode, which did work.

[rand0m4productions]

Mr. Ott you have no idea how wikipedia really works, do you? Also, your disregard for SOPA and PIPA is disheartening as these bills could easily lead to the death of PJTV considering all of the media that is used under fair use.

Why are you silent on these topics? You're showing your colors as just another whipped media outlet.

[zvi303]

@rand0m4productions I edit Wikipedia (as I assume you do), and I have no idea what your issue is.

[devilslayer888]

I guessing that PJTV is for the two freedom killing bills.

[zvi303]

@devilslayer888 PJTV is for making a joke.

[oharafactor]

@Elvishairdude89 The blackout was intentionally beatable by either mobile browser or disabling JavaScript.

[bobbytiger]

Library? What's a library?

[TdyYrLove]

I think the Wikipedia blackout was the greatest thing for Citizendium. How many of you have switched over permenantly now?

[oharafactor]

18 people are eating Mrs. Obama's cake.

[MrMegaProvocateur]

The persons, in the US goverment, who are thinking about to realize such a shit, should slowly burn & die in a fire!

[DanteWolfwood]

ANGRY ABOUT CONGRESS HAVING POTENTIAL POWER TO SHUT DOWN INTERNET.

CLOSES DOWN INTERNET IN PROTEST.

Logic.

[hadith04]

@DanteWolfwood

fight a Gunfight with a Gun

fight forest Fire with forest Fire

fight internet shutdown with internet shutdown

[DanteWolfwood]

@hadith04 yeah, Good try. That would make sense IF they were attacking the aggressors internet, The governments. You don't protect someone in a gunfight by shooting the people you are trying to protect. Same with this situation, you don't take away liberty to protect it. I understand they are trying to raise awareness but it's highly annoying. They could have just gone the route of Google, and just did something cosmetic.

[hadith04]

@DanteWolfwood

beggars can't be choosers

lazy is free, liberty is costly.

[BHNZsam]

@DanteWolfwood

for a day, and it got on the news, which raised awareness, which i hope reaches the one individual that will pick up a gun and fucking shoot the politicians

Logic.

[DanteWolfwood]

@BHNZsam Yes, because murdering someone is the reasonable answer to this problem. Good thinking.

[BHNZsam]

@DanteWolfwood

reasonable?

you value life alot higher then it truly is

fucking millions die in africa

it only takes thousands to change that

[fjfjfq]

rack and rall

[multri]

The only people that "want" this shit to pass are the married men trying to impress their wife, because they were caught beating off on some internet porns. FUCK YOU SOPA, there censer that.

[LordAtrocities]

Wow, 17 liberals have figured out how to operate the library computers. Good for you dopes. Now stop searching for kiddy porn on the library PC's and go get a fucking job you lazy dopes.

[karozans]

@LordAtrocities

LOL

[cdswheelman]

Is it that hard to trim both sides of your caterpillar equally ?

[Lombokstrait1]

You are not funny. Conservatives aren't funny... accept when they talk about the Bible and Jesus dieing for their sins. That's funny. Oh and the part about Israel coming before the US of A is hilarious too because you look like giant suckers. Conned.

[karozans]

@Lombokstrait1

Awe!!!  Are you going to cry now? Would you like a tissue?

Poor baby.

[Lombokstrait1]

@karozans Cry? Becuz conservative aren't funny when they try be, but are funny when their serious? No, the is sweet irony I just love. And good job making an argument. Numbskull Fundie. Christian Jihadi.

[Joe11Blue]

@Lombokstrait1 You're funny looking though, so what's the problem here?

[Lombokstrait1]

@Joe11Blue you

[karozans]

@Lombokstrait1

Your spelling and grammar is the only thing I find funny.

[zvi303]

@Lombokstrait1 Could you please find a third grader to teach you English grammar, and maybe how not to be a bigot?

[Lombokstrait1]

@zvi303 eh, typos. You're petty, on top being a religious fanatic. And I'm not a bigot. Your religion has infected our country. You are part of a dooms day cult and you are dangerous. If you kept to yourself and minded your own business then I wouldn't hold anything against you.

[AlaskaHome1959]

We thought it pretty odd, back in December, to discover a popular science journal recommending readers support less accurate information. It's even stranger to find this institution apparently violating fundamental principles of empiricism.

[AlaskaHome1959]

So why did Nature risk its reputation in such a way?

Perhaps the clue lies not in the news report, but in the evangelism of the accompanying editorial.

[AlaskaHome1959]

And this evidence raised troubling questions, as Nicholas Carr noted last month. Many publications had assumed Nature's Wikipedia story was objectively reporting the work of scientists - Nature's staple - rather than a news report assembled by journalists pretending to be scientists.

[AlaskaHome1959]

Nature only published a summary of the errors its experts found some time after the initial story, and has yet to disclose all the reviewer's notes.

[AlaskaHome1959]

"Dozens of the so-called inaccuracies they attributed to us were nothing of the kind; they were the result of reviewers expressing opinions that differed from ours about what should be included in an encyclopedia article. In these cases Britannica's coverage was actually sound."

[JohnTightlips]

Why hating on wikipedia? The journal Nature found it was as accurate as Britannica.

Also not very funny. Informative. Just Meh.

I expect better from PJTV.

[AlaskaHome1959]

@JohnTightlips Actually, it has been documented that the Natural study was terribly biased and based on misrepresentation of fraud.

[AlaskaHome1959]

@JohnTightlips Apparantly Google won't let me post the links to direct you to the evidence so go to The Register and look it up (apparantly Google is engaging in censorship while decrying "censorship" by others).

[AlaskaHome1959]

But Nature sent only misleading fragments of some Britannica articles to the reviewers, sent extracts of the children's version and Britannica's "book of the year" to others, and in one case, simply stitched together bits from different articles and inserted its own material, passing it off as a single Britannica entry.

Nice "Mash-Up" - but bad science.

[AlaskaHome1959]

@JohnTightlips In one case, for example. Nature's peer reviewer was sent only the 350 word introduction to a 6,000 word Britannica article on lipids - which was criticized for containing omissions.

[HeisenbergHyopthesis]

For the record Scifinder is the best tool for academic research not Wikipedia.

[nuclearmusician]

unsubscribed, unfunny.

[spikespeigel]

unsubscribed, used to love this channel, lately it's sucked.

[lukeedwardsimmons]

Wow, what's it feel like to be an unmitigated, censorship supporting bastard? Wikipedia, for all its flaws, open a lot of people to an important crisis and you make little of it. Why? Oh yeah, because Lamar Smith is one of your precious Republicans. I hope you live a long life and good health, wrack up lots of sins, so your stay in hell will be all the more horrendous.

[RattleheadX]

@lukeedwardsimmons Fairly certain that neither Scott Ott nor Pajamas Media are in favor of SOPA. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall them decrying SOPA/PIPA in a recent video.

[bobbytiger]

I could say something about Ms. Barack Obama blowing,

but I choose not to.

[ScrappleFace]

@bklee83 File photo. Not sure there was a photo op at this one. [Scott Ott]

[bklee83]

lol...the candles indicate its her 43rd b-day

[Reu360]

3:40 "They were *relieved* when they brought in several *police cars*" A potty pun and topical joke all in one punchline, bravo good sir.