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(Reblogged from joshuanguyen)
Flickr had one of the most creative takes on yesterday’s SOPA/PIPA protests. Rather than going fully dark, the normally chirpy photo-sharing site took things to a place of creepy genius by encouraging people to participate in the darkness. Flickr invited users to blacken their own photos…and to blacken the photos of others. The Lord of the Flies-meets-1984 atmosphere of controlled chaos, while not as pragmatically powerful as a day of Facts Without Wikipedia, got to the core of what censorship’s really about: indignity, restriction, randomness.
Flickr’s User-Generated Blackout May Be the Most Meaningful SOPA Protest
Zack, Flickr’s Community Lead, is one of the most awesome individuals I know. And he totally did not sleep for 48 hours to make this happen, literally overnight.
(via joshuanguyen)
