[HN Gopher] EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shut...
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       EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
        
       Author : 8organicbits
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2026-01-29 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.eff.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.eff.org)
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | This is an unhelpful and poorly explained message on very short
       | notice. What does shutdown even mean? Is the website going down?
       | Are they going to redirect the website? Won't a shutdown only
       | hurt the people that need their services? How exactly is shutting
       | down helping protestors say things are out of control?
        
         | mingus88 wrote:
         | It's called a general strike.
        
         | ChrisArchitect wrote:
         | right? are they going to go dark on the website? Or is it about
         | some kind of physical office? It doesn't say anything.
        
       | joemazerino wrote:
       | The EFF I remember fought for open source, ownership rights and
       | privacy. I stopped donating in 2020 .
        
         | krunck wrote:
         | Governments that feel justified in thuggery and murder will
         | also engage in violations of privacy and freedom.
        
         | undeveloper wrote:
         | it's generally difficult to have privacy when you have roving
         | state-sponsored rape gangs in the streets with tech built by a
         | company, similarly state-subsidized, named after a stone that
         | can see all. if you cannot see this, your ignorance has blinded
         | you.
        
       | embedding-shape wrote:
       | "National Shutdown" seems to be about this:
       | https://nationalshutdown.org/ (found via
       | https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5712766-nati...)
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       | > national SHUTDOWN FRI JAN 30 NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. -
       | The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole
       | country - to stop ICE's reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN.
       | On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no
       | work and no shopping.
       | 
       | So servers will still be running and websites, but won't be any
       | people in offices, school, factories, shops, and so on.
        
         | ChrisArchitect wrote:
         | how do you get from no school/work/shopping to no
         | websites/servers?
        
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