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"Dear Internet..." Oh wait, someone already wrote that blog post and it was already featured on several outlets. Look, Internet, I love you, but here's the thin
by llambda 15y ago
"Dear Internet..." Oh wait, someone already wrote that blog post and it was already featured on several outlets. Look, Internet, I love you, but here's the thing: it's true. If you want to effect change, you're going to have to work within the framework of the govt. That means that posts like these, after a certain point, aren't gonna do much to help Congress understand the problems with their approach. To recap and paraphrase, Congress does not really care much what some bloggers are saying about issue x; instead the group that does the best job of figuring out how to educate Congress probably has the best chance of seeing the change they want. What say we focus on doing more of that?
- dexen 15y ago> you're going to have to work within the framework of the govt. The last thing one can say to the dear Internet: that we are limited to what we've got now. The dear Internet, being the posterchild of disruption of old playbooks, should rather be encouraged to improve on current model of interaction with Congress and other governing bodies. How? Dunno; but somebody will figure it out, implement, deploy and popularize. There's plenty of room for improvement, don'tya think?
- Bobby_Tables 15y agoThere are lots of people on the internet with lots of money. The internet needs to lobby as hard as the MPAA does.
- lukejduncan 15y agoHow is it any different than writing an op-ed?
- scott_s 15y agoLegislators read the NY Times. Or, at least, their staff reads the NY Times and tells them what was in it. They don't read searchengineland.com.