+ - If you're going to join the SOPA protest you need -> 1
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mikejuk
mikejuk writes "The news that Wikipedia has announced that it will go dark might encourage others to protest in the same way — but be careful how you do it. There is a right way and a wrong way to black out a website. If you don't want Google and other search engines to decide that you have have made permanent changes you need to do more than just put up a protest page in place of your usual content."
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Site crashed, but... (Score:2)
...I expect the answer would be to return an HTTP 503 status, along with with the full HTML document explaining what's going on.