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Seems like this is even less thought out than SOPA and ACTA. It's only a pity there is not a comparable banner and outage campaign for this as there was for th
by oldcynic 8y ago
Seems like this is even less thought out than SOPA and ACTA.
It's only a pity there is not a comparable banner and outage campaign for this as there was for those. Made them impossible to miss and just about everyone knew of them. Ensured all the politicians were getting dozens of calls. Above all it worked. Dozens of non-US sites joined in.
This time around? A few news pieces on tech sites have cropped up otherwise a lot of silence. That's surprising as it seems like this will affect everyone too. Yet it's barely rated a mention in the mainstream media, here in the UK at least. Admittedly most of our EU news has been the idiocy of Brexit for the last year.
Would probably be helpful not to lose the topic in yet another discussion of GDPR too.
- drak0n1c 8y agoSOPA and Net Neutrality got the benefit of US-based partisan PACs funding PR staff (which translates into blog/news article volume) and social media posting/resharing/upvote bots. If it's policy made by the EU those organizations do not activate.