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Demonstrate Against Blocking Technology Legislation on April 20, 2001!

Demonstrate against Internet blocking on April 20, 2001, the effective date of the Children's Internet Protection Act legislation:

  • Demonstrate in person: Gather non-violently at federal legislative buildings (preferably the local office of the Federal Communications Commission, responsible for administering the Internet blocking law), blocking technology companies, schools, and libraries to protest inappropriate Internet blocking.
  • Display animated banners on any web sites you maintain.
  • Black out any web sites you maintain with a message explaining why.

The Online Policy Group will list demonstration details on this page as we hear from you about what, where, and when they will occur, so please email demonstrate@onlinepolicy.org so we can publicize your action.

Demonstrate in Person

San Francisco Bay Area Protest
April 20, 2001, 12:00 noon, at FCC office, 5653 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 105, Pleasanton (Dublin/Pleasanton BART)
Demonstration leaflet (feel free to customize this leaflet for use in your location; it is in MS Word RTF format; if clicking on the link does not work try "Save Link As..." by clicking the right mouse button over the link)

Long Island Protest
A Long Island protest will take place at 12:00 noon on Friday, April 20, at the Federal Court Building on Carlton Ave., just north of the Southern State Parkway, Central Islip, Long Island. Please contact Alex Urbelis at 631-589-2205 (home), 631-467-8844 (work) or by email at alex@2600.com

Federal Communications Commission office locations
Institute of Museum and Library Services office location

Display Animated Banners

Here are some great animated banners you can put on the web sites you maintain!


Children's Internet Protection Act. You Don't Protect a Child by Blocking Her Future.

To add this banner to your web site, use HTML code similar to the following on the web page where you want the banner to appear:

<A HREF="/about/network/statement.shtml">
<IMG SRC="/images/cipabanner.gif" width=468 height=60 ALT="Children's Internet Protection Act. You Don't Protect a Child by Blocking Her Future.">
</A>


Don't CHIP Away Our Civil Liberties. Stop Internet Blocking in Schools and Libraries.

To add this banner to your web site, use HTML code similar to the following on the web page where you want the banner to appear:

<A HREF="/about/network/statement.shtml">
<IMG SRC="/images/dont_chip_away.gif" width=468 height=60 ALT="Don't CHIP Away Our Civil Liberties. Stop Internet Blocking in Schools and Libraries.">
</A>


Blue Ribbon Campaign icon

To add this banner to your web site, use HTML code similar to the following on the web page where you want the banner to appear:

<A HREF="http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html">
<IMG SRC="http://br.eff.org/br.gif" width="112" height="76" ALT="Blue Ribbon Campaign icon"> Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!
</A>


If you prefer to keep your own copy of the banner on your web server, that is fine, although it will not update automatically as we enhance the one on our web server.

Tell us where you have the banner and we will list and link to your web page on this web site.

Pass the banners on to your friends!

Black Out Web Sites

Blacking out web sites can be an effective means for raising awareness about an important issue. Here is an example of what the Online Policy Group web site front page will look like on April 20, 2001, to protest on the effective date of the CHIPA legislation.

The following sites have notified us of their participation in the CHIPA blackout campaign:

Blacking out your web site can be easy. Just follow these simple steps:

  • Obtain the HTML code file for the front page of your web site (usually named index.htm or index.html ) and save a copy of it into another filename (such as indexhome.htm or indexhome.html ).
  • Open the front page HTML code file in your favorite editor.
  • Change the attributes of the <BODY> tag as follows to assign the background color as black and the text and link colors as white ( "000000" represents the color black and "FFFFFF" represents the color white)--
    <BODY BGCOLOR="000000" TEXT="FFFFFF" LINK="FFFFFF" VLINK="FFFFFF" ALINK="FFFFFF">
  • Within tables you may need to change the background color to black by using BGCOLOR="000000" .
  • Anywhere where the text still appears as a color other than white, you can change the color by using the <FONT COLOR="FFFFFF"> and </FONT> tags before and after the text.
  • Insert a text explanation of why the site is blacked out; see the example.
  • Add a link or links from the blacked out front page HTML code file to any other web page or pages you want the visitor to visit; make sure any links are visible on the blacked-out background.
  • Save the front page HTML code file.
  • Load the front page HTML code file and the saved copy HTML code file onto the web server for your web site.
  • Once the protest is over, you can replace the saved copy HTML code file into the usual front page HTML code file location.
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