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You certainly get a lot more bang for your protestor buck when you're able to show the politicians that their own electorate is against issue X.
by vacri 9y ago
You certainly get a lot more bang for your protestor buck when you're able to show the politicians that their own electorate is against issue X.
- kelukelugames 9y agoAre there modern examples of this? Follow up questions: 1) Especially for issues relevant to the tech community? 2) Can that be done by an average citizen?
- topspin 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA About the only supporters those bills had were IP owners; effectively everyone else in the US was against them and Congress got the message.