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if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup communi
by Achshar 15y ago
if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup community) can't do it.
- benbscholz 15y agoI think the HN crowd is more aware of SOPA than the visitors to those sites, but I think adding to the banner couldn't hurt (some people may have missed the SOPA stories from the last week).
- brudgers 15y agoPG almost certainly can do it. But that sort of editorializing does not seem consistent with the culture which has grown up around HN.
- tristan_louis 15y agoHere's the question. Is it editorializing when your own existence is put in question? Under SOPA, HN could be taken down with a simple link. One could create an account, post a link to some copyrighted material and then ask that HN be removed blocked at the DNS level. So if HN is not willing to stand for that, what is willing to stand for?
- brudgers 15y agoHN != YC
- davidhansen 15y agoThe legislation covers blocking or redirection of DNS queries by zone. Last I checked, the HN hostname is inside the ycombinator.com DNS zone.
- brudgers 15y agoMy point is that shutting down HN would not significantly threaten the survival of YC. Please note that I am assuming that YC, and not HN, is the primary enterprise of the person or persons in a position to deal with these matters.
- larrys 15y ago"If ... can do it" Of all of the above companies you listed, as of right now, it's only on reddit.com
- JoshTriplett 15y agohttp://boingboing.net/?p=129579 http://boingboing.net/?p=129579 Check out the logos at the bottom.
- larrys 15y agoThe "can do it" refers to the question "could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?" (Similar to what was done at http://www.avc.com http://www.avc.com for example.) The comment I am commenting on says: "if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup community) can't do it." So "can do it" doesn't refer to signing a letter (which can't be done now anyway) it refers to putting the censorship label over the logo. The majority of the companies mentioned did not do that which was the point that I was making.
- Achshar 15y agofrom "can do it" i meant publicly oppose the bill and not just change the logo. Sorry for the confusion. PS Mozilla also changed the logo.
- dayjah 15y agoThey're conducting YC interviews atm, I doubt this'll even be noticed; I hope it is though.