Hi. On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:44:11 +0100 Unknown Crewman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:17:14 +0300 Reco <[email protected]> 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. It's a good example of 'usual activism', though. Activist is risking everything, possibly including reputation and (in this case) - own life. And the profit from the act of activism belongs to other unnamed persons and organizations, as usual. Reco _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
