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Whereas you get the smug satisfaction of feeling superior to people who are actually doing anything at all.
by hdevalence 13y ago
Whereas you get the smug satisfaction of feeling superior to people who are actually doing anything at all.
- mhurron 13y agoActually I get the smug satisfaction of not wasting my time. This is not doing anything, but damn if you don't feel like it.
- RyanMcGreal 13y agoJust like the online action against SOPA/PIPA was a waste of time and didn't do anything?
- mhurron 13y agoYou mean how shutting the a site down for a day actually showed people what would happen if SOPA passed? Wikipedia participated in the SOPA protest, wikipedias users did not, they were impacted by Wikipedia's participation. That seems EXACTLY like changing your avatar and spamming Facebook. How does spamming Facebook or changing your avatar show the effects of the NSA's spying? That is how it is useless. It does nothing.
- RyanMcGreal 13y agoPart of the issue with mass surveillance is that a lot of people don't know about it / don't understand how it affects them. Anything that helps more people to start understanding and caring about this issue will push lawmakers toward doing the right thing and curtailing it.
- mhurron 13y ago> don't understand how it affects them And this doesn't change that. > helps more people to start understanding and caring And this does nothing of the sort. That's why it's useless. It is the very definition of slacktivism.