On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:17:24PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:44:11 +0100 > Unknown Crewman <unknown.crew...@rocketship.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:17:14 +0300 Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > No, I want to be informed about the Avaaz activism. Avaaz is > > > > harmless activism. For my taste it's just too often not smart. > > > > > > You're saying this as if there was such a thing as a 'smart activism'. > > > > I consider e.g. the following, including the downloads using the MIT access > > as smart: > > https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt > > And that lead to that story that caused Aaron Swartz to commit suicide, > isn't it? That's hardly a fine example of 'smart activism' thing, > considering the outcome IMO.
You can't control what actions another person decides to take. > It's a good example of 'usual activism', though. Activist is risking > everything, possibly including reputation and (in this case) - own life. That would be an extreme case, in my view. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list D-community-offtopic@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
