Scribd Makes a Billion Pages Disappear in Protest of SOPA

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I tried twice and I can't get this supposed disappearing thing to happen.

The CHZA on December 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM

@1: Huh. Worked the first time I visited the page, on two different computers. But click on the "Stop SOPA" stop sign icon in the top-left corner of the document, and you'll see the disappearing thing.

Goldy on December 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM

This is the sort of thing that makes me despair of ever regaining some semblance of decency in our governance.

NaFun on December 21, 2011 at 2:56 PM

I run Safari on Mac, and to see the little stop sign/have words disappear, you need to uncheck "Block pop-up windows" in the Security pane of Preferences; if you also have AdBlock installed, you'll need to uncheck "Enable AdBlock" in the Extensions pane of Preferences. Then refresh the page.

Or you could just visualize from Goldy's description.

rob! on December 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM

OT, heads up for Goldy:

"Study Connects U.S. Deaths to Fukushima, Contradicts EPA Reports

A new study set for publication tomorrow in the International Journal of Health Services found there may be a connection between an estimated excess of 14,000 deaths in the U.S. and the radioactive fallout from explosions at Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, an argument in direct conflict with reports from the Environmental Protection Agency..."

http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/2011121…

Zotz on December 22, 2011 at 7:41 AM