Patch Will Go Dark Briefly Friday Morning to Mark Moment of Silence for Newtown Victims
One week after the Newtown massacre, Patch and much of the Web world will go dark briefly at 9:30 Friday morning to join in the tribute to the kids and teachers.
Patch is among the many websites which will display a tribute to victims of the Sandy Hook shooting over their sites tomorrow, Friday, at 9:30 a.m. According to Patch's sister site Techcrunch, the online campaign was inspired by a call for a moment of silence by Connecticut’s governor — and follows a coalition of tech leaders calling for more gun control. Techcrunch writes: The awareness strategy seems inspired by the SOPA [Stop Online Piracy Act] website blackouts from January. Instead of completely blocking functionality of participating websites, though, the tribute message can be closed to resume normal browsing. Alternatively, people can click a link in the message to find out what else they can do to aid the campaign. The moment of …
Michael Fleming
1:40 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Dan I've read your posts before about death reduction and the little things we can do to reduce deaths, and I totally agree. Mandatory vaccination alone would by far save more lives than banning guns, but we don't have the political will to force parents to do what is needed...so we don't. This shooting tragedy is simply a political opportunity. As you said, the window has opened and Obama is … more ›