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If I had to point to one thing it would be "the day". * It's clearly going to take more than a day to achieve a positive outcome in a system that was establish

If I had to point to one thing it would be "the day". * It's clearly going to take more than a day to achieve a positive outcome in a system that was established over many decades * What happens when "the day" ends? * Since the action is framed as "the day", this is how the media will report on it - including outcomes of the day. These outcomes, whatever they are, will be packaged with the day and thus more easily dismissed than, say, "the movement" (which continues to grow) or "the tide" (that is turning) or "the big cleanup" (which must be repeated regularly)

dkrich 13y ago
I think drives like these (whether intended to or not) result in heightened awareness of a problem, not necessarily a fixed outcome. If something like this took place once a year (where sites protest mass surveillance) it would assure that people continue to discuss the issue instead of slowly forgetting about it. Labeling the effort "The Day We Fight Back" has a certain "shock" value that intrigues people. If instead it were marketed as "let's talk about long-term strategies for dismantling mass-surveillance" support would probably trickle in. After all, signing a petition or putting a url on your site isn't really "fighting back," it's a protesting.
BrandonMarc 13y ago
Agreed. Even if the media gives "the day" plenty of coverage, their 24-hour news cycle will simply bury it, and CBSABCNBCCNNFNC viewers will have forgotten it by Friday, and likely not see it again.