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Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them
- martokus 15y agoNice. Although I do not live in the US i'll do it because it's the right thing to do.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> I do not live in the US Not as relevant as it once was. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428991
- yellow 15y agoThis article pointed out something I hadn't really thought about: random album pictures on facebook get more real estate than profile pictures in the news feed. If I started posting political items through that huge block of news feed, I bet people will start ignoring all my posts...
- mille562 15y agoAn alternative would be to make a regular post. I plan to post the following to FB, Google+, and Twitter: "This is my only comment today because I do not want to be censored by the passage of SOPA. #sopablackout"
- meow 15y agoI think this is an awesome idea. This article needs more traction.
- evan_ 15y agoMore annoying (but more visible) idea: Everyone changes their name to "SOPA Enforcement Officer #204295" with an official looking picture, and combs through their friends posts all day looking for pictures or text that would potentially be taken down under a nightmare SOPA regime. T-shirts or products with logos visible, artwork visible, song lyrics, videos with uncleared background music. Get creative. Then, post fake takedown notices (in the comments) with an informational link.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> T-shirts or products with logos visible, artwork visible, song lyrics, videos with uncleared background music. Get creative. Seems like something that could be automated, if only there was a big database of copyrighted works. (Maybe transloading videos to YouTube and watching for the "copyrighted works detected" flag to pop up?)
- meow 15y agoahem... won't we be doing media lobby's work for them :)..
- ggchappell 15y ago> ... if only there was a big database of copyrighted works. Essentially all works are copyrighted under U.S. law, except those made by the U.S. Government, those whose copyright has expired (OLD stuff), other-media representations of a public domain work (e.g., a photograph of the Mona Lisa), and those explicitly placed into the public domain by the author.
- evan_ 15y agoit's more powerful from an emotional standpoint if people do it manually
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- zalew 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_warrior http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_warrior
- Zirro 15y agoI see what you're saying, but in this case slacktivism may be the best thing to do. The issue, from what I've understood, is that not enough people know about SOPA. And where do you best spread information? Yes, on the Internet. People have tried -not- slacktivism, which is calling representatives. There's not enough of them. Try some slacktivism first to get peoples attention, then go for the big things.
- zalew 15y agoBack in my facebook days, there were a lot of these 'awareness campaigns' on my wall, people changed profile pictures, posted some wierd messages, etc. After a gazillion of them, I just stopped caring and didn't even ask what another kind of ribbon means. But that's not the point. The point is, awareness campaigns must have a call to action. Changing profile pictures make people feel comfortable that they 'did something to support' and in the end it doesn't matter. I'm not a US citizen, so it's up to you to decide what to do, but do something useful, not another fun game of replacing profile avatars so people think they're fighting for the cause while doing nothing.
- Zirro 15y agoTrue, I see a lot of these as well, and I don't care much either. This time however, they do have a "call to action", which is to call your representative. Now, I'm not a US-citizen either but from my understanding that's the best you can do as a normal person.
- zoba 15y agoThis Chrome add on to "Invite All" of your friends could be useful, however, facebook is blocking me from inviting everyone. Advice welcome! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofcnbnhefnmjancehemliplicihbcjjb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofcnbnhefnmjancehe...
- maeon3 15y agoHow about a "delete your Facebook account in protest of sopa" day?