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Can somebody explain what exactly did they do? Who made those calls?

• antr 15y ago
  confusing post
  • lobo_tuerto 15y ago
    No it's not. You can read the last paragraph to know _who_ made the calls: "We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives."
    • antr 15y ago
      Adrian I'm sorry you down voted my comment. I am not confused with the "who" but how the post is written and expressed. It starts saying "we generated", "we've been heard", later it quotes Representative D. Issa who they've "heard" where/how? Did she also call via Mobile Commons? It finally finishes the post saying "connect callers with their Representatives." So no longer mentioning the "we". This post is tough to understand, i.e. a confusing post. Just trying to express my feeling, I'm glad you understood it, but you don't need to be patronising
      • starwed 15y ago
        Do you have some secret ability to know who clicked the downvote button that the rest of us lack?
        • drivingmenuts 15y ago
          There is a downvote button? Seriously, I've never seen the downvote button on this site.
          • Merrack 15y ago
            Once you hit 500 karma it "unlocks."
      • lobo_tuerto 15y ago
        Don't be, it happens sometimes when we contribute something that isn't considered helpful or contributive to the discussion going on. I have been downvoted a lot of times, but meh, sometimes you gain points sometimes you lose them. I exercised an ability in a case I deemed necessary. Come on, a two word expression with no explanation whatsoever? I saw you did explain yourself after you got downvoted and I'm sorry you got downvoted again (I didn't do that, in case you are wondering). The point is, I wouldn't have downvoted you if your first comment was as well explained as your second one.
• Deadsunrise 15y ago
  Using Mobile commons: http://www.mobilecommons.com/product-tour/mconnect-text-to-phone-call/ http://www.mobilecommons.com/product-tour/mconnect-text-to-p...
• 5l 15y ago
  See http://americancensorship.org/ http://americancensorship.org/ - they have screenshots of Tumblr's dashboard during the day.
  • deleted 15y ago
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• tombot 15y ago
  Tumblr created a page which allowed anyone to be instantly connected to their House Representative, here's the landing page they used to take request for calls http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net They also censored content on users dashboard e.g http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sopatumblrshot.png?w=640 http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sopatumb...
  • antr 15y ago
    understood, thx for the explanation
  • CWIZO 15y ago
    Now it makes sense :) thanks!
  • akc 15y ago
    Did they use tropo?
    • tombot 15y ago
      Nope apparently they used http://www.mobilecommons.com/ http://www.mobilecommons.com/ Although you could probably swap that with Tropo / Twillio etc
  • thehigherlife 15y ago
    A little irony here: My work's content filtering app blocks this (http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net) pages' content.