The Day We Fight Back
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The Day We Fight Back
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#2It's long past time that we channel our outrage into political action on this issue.
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#3I am probably the only person who is bothered that this sounds like a deniable call to violent action. "BE CREATIVE"
edit: to be clearer - the issue is that we have left violent action open as an option and it isn't hard for a few people to take that option. Is this what we want politics to be?
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#4It's long past time that we channel our outrage into political action on this issue.
Excellent. What's the definition of insanity? Here's the Reddit discussion. Have at it!
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#5If I got this right, we fight back by changing our avatars and putting banners on our blogs. Is that it?
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#6I am probably the only person who is bothered that this sounds like a deniable call to violent action. "BE CREATIVE" edit: to be clearer - the issue is that we have left violent action open as an option and it isn't hard for a few people to take that option. Is this what we want politics to be?
Probably.
Edit since parent updated: "Be creative" is just too broad and if you want to imply the authors are saying "be violent if you want" then it's what YOU are implying, not them. Besides, I have yet to see a Internet protest that turned out violent because of the protesters. Not in a large scale at least.
So reading "be violent" where it says "be creative" is a long stretch (thus my initial response).
Now, if the authors should be liable if anything violent happens because they did not add "please don't be violent", then this a whole different (and larger) discussion about all the crazy things happening in the judicial system (that would allow someone to be sued). At the end, people are liable for their own acts.
Let's leave this discussion for when/if they actually are explicit about using violence, instead of trying to read between the lines so early (and with so little information to base it on).
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#7What are the specific goals and modes of action for this protest? (e.g. laws to pass, laws to vote against, people to fire etc.)
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#8Feb 11th is after the SOTU, where Obama will announce what will in effect be the only changes we're likely to see. Any attempt to influence policy should come before that.
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#9If I got this right, we fight back by changing our avatars and putting banners on our blogs. Is that it?
Well, when socially networked narcissism is the order of the day in general, why expect anything else? I'm not particularly concerned about the Black Chamber doing what the Black Chamber does, but if I were, I'd certainly hope to see those who shared that concern aiming a little higher than merely to say "I'm agin' it!"
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#10If I got this right, we fight back by changing our avatars and putting banners on our blogs. Is that it?
yeah!
the arm chair politics of Kony 2012 and all those missing children on facebook.
in reality we need to make people sick to their stomachs and use fear tactics the same way US politics does.
Documentaries, advertising, real life examples, sense of urgency.
I mean, we can just follow the doctrines of propoganda set before us daily :D
it's the masses that have power, not the community of hacker news.