2012/1/17 Balwinder S Dheeman <bdhee...@gmail.com>: > On 01/17/2012 08:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: >> >> Great news indeed. I hope many more sites join the protest. I would >> black out kandalaya.org, if anyone ever visited there :) > > > IMHO, there is no harm in joining race, but will these kinds of protests be > effective enough, I doubt.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57327681-17/tumblr-users-fight-sopa-with-87834-calls-to-congress/ "87,834 calls were placed to representatives. The average call lasted 53 seconds, while the longest came in at 31 minutes, the company said. A total of 1,293 total hours were spent talking to representatives." That was just one website, now lets see how much impact when lot many popular sites including reddit and wikipedia does blackout tomorrow. > A better protest must/should effect or interrupt working and lives of the > policy/law makers or it at least must stop generation of taxes for a day or > two ;) some protest is better than no protest, and if you are waiting for the perfect protest it may never happen! > Since, the politicians, bureaucrats or governments are not different > anywhere. The democracy, socialism or whatever the intellectuals can think > of are just cloaks for them to loot the general people. The agony is people > empower them themselves on every term so that the politicians can rule them > :P > > And ... and this has been happening since long :( and citizens are more or less same every where too! If you just look back to 2011, you can see how much change was made possible by people rising up. Would you have believed Hosni Mubarak won't be in power if someone told you a year back? We can at least make it a topic of conversation in our circles. Better light a candle than blame the darkness! -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
