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EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoThis is an unhelpful and poorly explained message on very short notice. What does shutdown even mean? Is the website going down? Are they going to redirect the website? Won't a shutdown only hurt the people that need their services? How exactly is shutting down helping protestors say things are out of control?
- mingus88 9mo agoIt’s called a general strike.
- nickff 9mo agoBut the EFF doesn't provide services to the government; this action will actually benefit the 'offending' government officials by relieving them of the pressure the EFF is intended to effect.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoExactly. The Monday backlog will be twice as big as usual and somehow this is also the measurement for a successful strike??
- barbazoo 9mo agoSure, if you needed a haircut the day of the strike and you didn't cut your own hair, you're still gonna have to go to the hairdresser the day after. Maybe as part of the general strike you cut your own hair or you just skipped a completely optional purchase though so there is no backlog the next day.
- yladiz 9mo agoMany strikes don’t directly affect government services, so I don’t understand your point.
- nickff 9mo agoIn this case, the EFF striking would help "ICE's reign of terror", by removing a watchdog.
- rigrassm 9mo agoIt calls for no work, school or shopping, not for them to stay home and close their eyes.
- nickff 9mo agoI thought that the EFF’s ‘work’ was to ‘open people’s eyes’ by highlighting important concerns. Put another way: should television and newspaper reporters not work, and avoid covering any of the protests?
- mingus88 9mo agoYou don’t seem to understand what a general strike is
- nickff 9mo agoI just don't think a general strike should necessarily involve government watch-dogs; people like them and the media should work harder to amplify their messages.
- CamperBob2 9mo agoIf everybody doesn't participate equally in the general strike, then it's basically burning down your own neighborhood to protest something that happened on the other side of town. If everybody does participate, then it amounts to burning down the whole city. It's such a dumb idea that it's almost indistinguishable from an attempt at subversion by the actual parties/powers being protested. Announcing such an effort 3 days ahead of time while making no specific demands is just icing on the proverbial cake.
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- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoIs it? I genuinely don’t know, this is the first thing I’ve heard about a national shutdown and the source link doesn’t point me towards any more information. Is this a nonprofit thing or does it have broader currency? Has it been in the works for a while and I just didn’t hear about it? If I tell my boss I’m going on strike tomorrow morning, will I be one of many or one of one?
- ChrisArchitect 9mo agoright? are they going to go dark on the website? Or is it about some kind of physical office? It doesn't say anything.
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- krunck 9mo agoGovernments that feel justified in thuggery and murder will also engage in violations of privacy and freedom.
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- throwawaypath 9mo agoThis is about the US, not the UK.
- noncoml 9mo agoFederal agents taking photos of your face while you are minding your own business, to upload them and compare them against a database of “citizens” is quite a privacy concern in my books
- nickff 9mo agoAnd to demonstrate their devotion to the cause, the EFF will take a day off from advocating against these behaviours? This makes no sense to me; why should a watchdog participate in a strike like this?
- bobwaycott 9mo agoSolidarity.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoAll I can come up with is virtue signaling. Seems like their backlog work is low and they are making a strategic choice to try and get a funding boost by attending the protests (their message says nothing about this. It doesn't say much of anything, actually).
- embedding-shape 9mo ago"National Shutdown" seems to be about this: https://nationalshutdown.org/ https://nationalshutdown.org/ (found via https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5712766-national-shutdown-set-for-friday-what-to-know/ https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5712766-nati...) > national SHUTDOWN FRI JAN 30 NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. - The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping. So servers will still be running and websites, but won't be any people in offices, school, factories, shops, and so on.
- ChrisArchitect 9mo agohow do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers?
- mistrial9 9mo agowhat social effect does this have if personal screen silos are Business As Usual while social interaction is halted?
- reaperducer 9mo agohow do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers? Servers perform work. For people. My oven (KitchenAid) is a machine, yet has a setting that makes it non-functional during certain religious events that require people not to work. Similarly, B&H Photo's web site won't take orders on the Sabbath. They'd rather take the revenue hit than violate their principles. A foreign notion to the tech industry.
- CompoundEyes 9mo agoI wonder if a large chunk of the population choosing to only buy non-discretionary goods for an extended period of time might freak policy makers out more. Not a targeted boycott. Not a strike still going to work. Lower effort to participate. For example if this caused US Amazon orders to fall by a 1/4 for two weeks and similarly across all retailers.
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoLow effort to participate isn’t a feature. The point of these kind of actions is to show that there’s a lot of people who are really fired up and won’t be placated or deterred unless policymakers meet their demands.
- nerdponx 9mo agoSort of? You want something that's going to actually affect the corporations involved. It's not about showing effort, because the government doesn't care how much effort you put in. It's about showing power, making a statement that we "the people" have power and can use it if you don't do what we want. A long-term "nonessentials boycott" might be more impactful in that sense.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo agoQuick! Repeal Section 230 while they aren't looking!
- zamalek 9mo ago> We do not make this decision lightly, but we will not remain silent. While I fully support this, this irony is a little amusing. By closing they are actually staying silent for a single day.
- embedding-shape 9mo ago> By closing they are actually staying silent for a single day. If they were just staying home, yes, but that's not what they're doing, so they're not "staying silent". You can find out where everyone is going instead of working here: https://nationalshutdown.org/actions https://nationalshutdown.org/actions
- zamalek 9mo agoI really hope it's a massive success.
- mmh0000 9mo agoPosted "January 29, 2026" Seriously... If y'all want a general strike, we need: * 2 weeks' notice to plan * Conditions for when the strike ends Assuming this even got enough traction to catch on, one 3-day weekend isn't going to do anything. This almost feels like "corporate manipulation": Let the slaves "have a day" to cool off and feel like they've accomplished something, then get 'em back in the mines!
- llbbdd 9mo agoThis is all strikes. People love to point to the strikes that got us forty hour work weeks and women voting but they forget that the other side has had time to respond. So now we waste our time with this instead - and look at your proposal seriously. What kind of strike give two weeks notice to the entities you're striking against?
- embedding-shape 9mo ago> * 2 weeks' notice to plan Here you have two more further in the future: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ > February 17th: Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund > March 28th: No Kings Out of those two, I'm guessing the "No Kings" one will be the larger. > This almost feels like "corporate manipulation": It is indeed! Manipulating the corporations by showing that people can actually decide to stop working, and it generally scares all the executives because they realize (yet again) that it's actually them who depend on the workers, not the other way around.
- dmitrygr 9mo agoI always understood that the very most important thing in any strike is to make it crystal clear what you want. How else are the targets of your strike to understand what you desire, were they in the mood to grant it? On this webpage, I do not see a clear demand. What specific action or series of actions do they actually demand, and of whom?
- xtiansimon 9mo ago> “On this webpage, I do not see a clear demand.” Maybe it’s just people are Mad as Hell and they’re not going to take it anymore! https://youtu.be/_RujOFCHsxo https://youtu.be/_RujOFCHsxo
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