On 12/19/2011 3:01 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 12/19/2011 02:50 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
Ackkk, the politicians are turning their attention to the Internet
again.
First came the America Invents Act of 2011. Now comes SOPA, the Stop
Online
Piracy Act, which gives the same corporate clowns control over who
gets to say
what online. Appropriate for bureaucrats in China or North Korea,
perhaps,
but here I say hands off my Internet.
Read more at:
http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works
Congressman Capuano already has a letter from me in his in-box.
Write yours...
I wrote Sen. Brown about this and got an acknowledgment letter back
within a couple hours. Nothing stating an opinion on the legislation,
but enough of a reply to make me believe that someone in his office at
least read my letter.
I never got a response when I wrote Sen. Kerry about a different issue.
Since my grandfather was a in the Massachusetts House, I'll share
something he taught me: if you /really/ want to get their attention,
take my advice.
Sit down and use a pen to write a letter by hand. Do /not/ use a printer
or word processor: write it *BY* *HAND*, in cursive, and then send it
off to Washington.
People are funny: writing a letter with a paper and pen is hard work -
and your elected representatives /know/ that. They know that someone
willing to go through that much trouble is /really/ hot under the
collar, and hand-written letters are the only ones that get prompt,
individual attention.
Email is analyized and weighted for keywords, after being run through
/very/ expertly devised filters which identify "mail bomb" auto-writing
campaigns and chain letters. Printed mail is often simply weighed, after
being sorted by zip code. Only hand-written letters get seen by a real
person.
FWIW. HTH.
Bill
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Bill Horne
339-364-8487
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