I think for media coverage, it would have been Wikipedia. Journalists joke about students left stranded without Wikipedia for their homework ... but as far as I can tell, they're almost all utterly reliant on Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder. They're feeling its absence keenly. (And crying with relief when they realise it still works on their phones.) The news cycle started as soon as the warning banner went up yesterday.
but as far as I can tell, they're almost all utterly reliant on Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder.
How far can you tell?
Our sister site apparently is:
Interesting, my model of Robin Hanson had him say something about the blackout and how it shows people are hypocrites. Though obviously he has strong opinions on intellectual property. I think it would have been a good idea to Blackout LessWrong today. It would have given us a status boost in most of the communities we frequent.