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I really, really don't think anyone is trying to say that this is the /only/ thing you should do. Many of the people organizing this campaign worked on any num
by sinak 13y ago
I really, really don't think anyone is trying to say that this is the /only/ thing you should do.
Many of the people organizing this campaign worked on any number of different campaigns over the last 6 months (Stop Watching Us, Restore the Fourth rallies, a rally in DC, Defund The NSA), so we'd be the last to say that this is the only day you should take action.
Rather, this is a single day for all of us who care about the isuee to rally round and do something to reach a critical mass of action that gets noticed on capitol hill. And also to help educate people who've tuned out of NSA stories by reiterating all the things the NSA is doing to erode privacy.
- einhverfr 13y ago> Rather, this is a single day for all of us who care about the isuee to rally round and do something to reach a critical mass of action that gets noticed on capitol hill. And also to help educate people who've tuned out of NSA stories by reiterating all the things the NSA is doing to erode privacy. To be honest, I am jaded enough to wonder how much politics actually matters here. The NSA isn't going to stop spying on us because Congress tells them to. It isn't even clear that Congress knows enough about what is going on to really oversee it. And if they don't, then what? We get some feel-good legislation which purports to solve the situation but really just plants the seeds of the next great abuse. That's exactly what happened with FISA. The current battleground is not on Capitol Hill. it is in the insistence that we make companies pay for what they are doing with the NSA and insist on the development of secure alternatives. The next battleground (as we make gains in private industry) will be in Capitol Hill, and believe me, when it comes, we will need business interests to be on our side.