Gosh, too bad we don't have someone like, say, an ethics fellow at Harvard with organizing experience and enthusiasm and time on his hands even if he had to rudely dump something to help to coordinate this.
Signing petitions, I'm afraid, will have little influence. No reason not to! It was wicked close last time, if you remember. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/426383/sopa-battle-won-but-war-continues/ There were considerably more than internet petitions involved: http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-day-aaron-swartz-helped-make-the-internet-go-dark/ http://www.wikiwriters.info/cnet-news/how-aaron-swartz-helped-to-defeat-hollywood-on-sopa.html http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/14532121718/internet-freedom-day-watch-aaron-swartz-explain-how-sopa-was-stopped.shtml We need calls, faxes, letters, people walking into offices in DC, recruit influencers, get people talking to media. (And sorry, I am too old and sick to take point, I have to plead excuses -- no one is sadder about this than I am... I can help write, and advise, but I can't take point...). As change instruments, internet petitions suck. They work well as mechanisms to harvest names and addresses and donations for the organizations who set them up. But they influence no one in Congress. They don't raise enough money to buy votes, only a few staffers to set up the next petitions. They may serve to educate voters a bit, but usually they are set up as obscurantist as any other fundraising marketing instrument. Don't mourn, organize! To absent friends, SN On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Ahitagni Mandal <ahitagni.man...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello,We all know about CISPA , what can we do about it? It passed the > U.S. House, and will now head to the upper Senate chamber for further > deliberation. CISPA will mean that all he top tech companies like say your > email company , your social networking company will be able to > share your private data with Government without a warrant or anything. Like > if police comes to your house the need a warrant to search, but with this > bill they can search thorough your digital data without warrant of any kind. > You can see how the co-founder of the Reddit, Alexis Ohanian tried to > call Larry Page of Google and could not get through, so with other tech > giants like Facebook and Twitter in this YouTube video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=IkuH5ZjEdBw > So, my request to all of the members in the list please sign this > petition. http://www.saveyourprivacypolicy.org/ > > Thanks > -- > Ahitagni Mandal > www.ahitagni.com > > Twitter: @ahitagni <http://www.twitter.com/ahitagni> > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com
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