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By David Zax | 01-18-2012 | 10:31 AM
Extra! Extra!
Inked Out Encyclopedia
Censored Search
Craigslist In The Dark
Black And Red
Eyes Only
Jailhouse Spotlight
Seeing Red
Orangeout, Anyone?
The Fourth Estate
Blogging Goes Black
White House Humor
Protest Iconography
"Wait, Is That Bad?"
A recurring image from the protest day is this one, a newspaper headline that the website sopastrike.com made easy to embed on the webpages of supporters everywhere.
One of the most prominent sites to go offline, Wikipedia opted for a decidedly ominous image to protest the bills.
While Google did not withhold its services or content, as Wikipedia did, it altered its doodle in support of the protests.
True to form, Craigslist opted for a simple and almost graphically flat-footed approach.
Smaller sites took bigger risks. Here, colossalmind.com opted for an image with a whiff of anarchist iconography.
Asofterworld.com produced this elegant landing page, which looks something like a classified document overlaid on a static-filled television.
Another common trope of supporters' websites is this image, culled from an interactive graphic. Move your cursor on rationalresponders.com or other sites that adopted this image, and a spotlight illuminates text opposing the bills.
Though most sites opted to take "blackout" literally, others explored other parts of the palette. Here, redstonehost.com paid homage to its own name, and to the color we associate with stopping.
But the most colorful "blackout" page is probably this one, from Minecraft.net.
Some publishers even strayed into advocacy. Wired.com decided to black out its headlines and images; scrolling over the redacted bits illuminates them.
Wordpress threw its support behind the cause, with the image shown here.
Not all protest sites were solemn. Here, the White House parody site whitehouse.gov1.info opted for a cartoon.
The site 941mediaproject.com decided to evoke that eternal protest hero, Futurama's Bender.
From thecomeandgo.tumblr.com, a fake political poster. Other humorous takes on the day of protest include this YouTube video from Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh, "The Day The LOLCats Died."
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