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[trees]

Ominous!

Possibly showing solidarity with other websites doing blackouts today?

[thvaz]

Nooo! I need my daily fix!

[snpaa]

Why the devlog of the day 01/18/2012 is blank???

I assumed he was trying to subtly protest sopa and Pipa

[monk12]

I doubt it's a solidarity thing, since I'd wager Toady would provide more information than a blank devlog. My guess is he just mis-posted.

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

Either it is simple mistake, or his own contribution for today SOPA and PIPA protests. If he will leave it and post for 19 as usual, we can be certain it is deliberate.

[Aquillion]

I'd assume it's a SOPA / PIPA protest, given the timing.

[werechicken]

Most of the people who go on this site either think sopa is moronic or, like myself, live somewhere were corporate interests have slightly less of a stranglehold on government policy.

The sites which are protesting sopa are used by a wider variety of people and are completely down, the fact that we're still posting shows that this isn't the case.

Maybe he just accidentally created the blank post.

[Dae]

Most of the people who go on this site either think sopa is moronic or, like myself, live somewhere were corporate interests have slightly less of a stranglehold on government policy.

You're not out of danger. Most servers are located in the US. Google and Paypal are forced to cease cooperation with you if SOPA says so.

[Mel_Vixen]

Moreover if the USA pass SOPA/PIPA other countries are pressed to pass similiar laws or have an incentive to do so because hey the USA are doing it. The USA are also already pressing theyr legislation into other countries as seen for example with ACTA and some paid laws in countries like Spain or New Zealand.

[Greiger]

I didn't think Toady and TT could have gotten much more awesome.   Today's devlog has proven me wrong.  I'm buying you two a few cases of Dr Pepper.

[Anatoli]

Why the devlog of the day 01/18/2012 is blank???

I lean to the side that he misposted. The devlog was about 7 hours ahead of schedule.
But I just wanted to make the question formal to make sure Toady answers it. (not like he won't otherwise. It's not like he doesn't respond to a whole page of conspiracy theories.

But I find the blank devlog thoughtfully hilarious, whatever the intentions. Also, Toady, what is your stance on SOPA and the like. I reckon (from Dwarf Talk) you are pretty paranoid about such things.

For those who don't remember what Toady said, he said that his reasons for not implementing any mods, tilesets, not making DF open-source, and for working alone included that he was afraid he'd get bogged down in legislation, which would distract him from his work.

[caknuck]

Why the devlog of the day 01/18/2012 is blank???

Toady accidentally the whole devlog

[werechicken]

Most of the people who go on this site either think sopa is moronic or, like myself, live somewhere were corporate interests have slightly less of a stranglehold on government policy.

You're not out of danger. Most servers are located in the US. Google and Paypal are forced to cease cooperation with you if SOPA says so.

I actually meant that we wouldn't have a say either way, also if the US government is daft enough to enact this then I'll bet those companies will just relocate their servers to a country which doesn't impose those kind of laws. This is especially true for multinational companies like google who could be badly mauled by these laws.
 
It seems like the US government is burning its house down to get rid of a mouse and people like Robert Murdoch are selling the matches (when he's not running newspapers that hack into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirls)

[Greendogo]

Why the devlog of the day 01/18/2012 is blank???

I assumed he was trying to subtly protest sopa and Pipa

I agree;  it seemed obvious to me when I saw it today.  I thought it was very clever!  We love you Toady and Threetoe!!!

[snelg]

So, the wombat man fighting giant storks and octopus men went so bad (in a Fun way of course) it had to be censored? 

If related to SOPA I find the blank update pretty clever.