On 01/17/2012 10:13 PM, Praveen A wrote:
2012/1/17 Balwinder S Dheeman<[email protected]>:
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.
Wow! that's good, I was not sure; but only in doubt.
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?
Yeah, we observed a lot of change all over world in the recent past.
We can at least make it a topic of conversation in our circles. Better
light a candle than blame the darkness!
Agreed, that's what I was trying to do; enlighten people, more and more
though me also am not different since I'm also struggling just to make a
livelihood, hence I'm unable to devote much time.
--
Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
(http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)
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