On Implementing Effective Internet Protests? 13
andr0meda asks: "The ecology activist group Friends of the Earth is protesting against the recent dimissal of the Kyoto Protocol by President Bush, on the grounds of protecting the current economic momentum. It is a valid reason on it's own, but given that the US is the strongest economy in the world, this is a little out of place. My question is wheather these kind of internet protests can have effect on any policy. In Inet-land, there are no stable, validated channels that are really used to examine the public opinion. You can`t strike or protest-march on the internet. There is no e-government. You can only ruin (or hope to ruin) someone's mail system or network in order to stand out from the crowd. So my issue is twofold: 1) what can you do to effectively protest on the internet without harming anyone or anything? 2) Does free-speech and subsequent opinion-chaos mean you have to break the system to augment the potential importance of your discourse? Then again, maybe I should be worried more about the Slashdot Effect on the website. (In the meantime, you are of course welcome to join in on the protest)" While the internet is great for organizing such things, I think protests are best felt in meatspace, where such actions have more weight.
Remember you're not the only one in cyberspace (Score:2)
I suppose it would help if the people organizing the protests knew what the hell they were talking about and protesting, instead of protesting for the sake of protesting.
Action Through Thought (Score:1)
Educate, present your facts, persuade, convince.
Also study, examine other facts, listen to other's opinions, and study others' arguments. It's a two-way street.
Simple, Really (Score:2)
It's sort of the digital equivalent of an informational picket line.
Gene Sharp (Score:2)
-russ
Re:Remember you're not the only one in cyberspace (Score:1)
Re:Gene Sharp (Score:2)
Thanks, it`s interesting to know people actually studied this. It`s a little out of date ofcourse, and the net is a new kind of world where new rules emerge. Spamming, virri and emailbombs are quite common today allready, and in some way they represent the protest acts of individuals or groups too. Some people have grown tolerant to a certain extend to these 'mallicious' acts, some take them very seriously. I`m curious how this will evolve, and where the limits and benefits really are.
Re:Ecology and Internet Logically Incompatible (Score:2)
It`s not nearly my intention to get elected, I just wanted to see if someone had some good experiences/recolections with/of non-violent protests on the internet that were effective.
Not until.... (Score:1)
Another question? (Score:1)
mass e-mail protest is worse than SPAM (Score:1)
And click through posts or forms are not really identified.
Lettres impress more, even if there is only one sentence in it, if it comes from the heart.
Petitions and Protests and Outrage, oh my! (Score:1)
All else is simply thrown into the garbage. Petitions are useless. Protests are largely ignored. Outrage expressed in the form of riots (Seattle) throw a very bad light on you instead of the issue you are upset about.
Stop trying to effect change from without. You can only peacefully effect change from within.
Dancin Santa
[1] There is a third option if you are a rich entity, which is to throw money at politicians.
Re:Simple, Really... question (Score:1)
If I had 500 protesters make a web page and we link to each other, would I not have a high placement.
As long as our meta tages were all alike I would think that we would be near the top.
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Re:Simple, Really (Score:1)