Financial pain is a proven way to affect companies, and in turn affect the government. But causing financial pain to organizations that are compromised by NSA

Financial pain is a proven way to affect companies, and in turn affect the government. But causing financial pain to organizations that are compromised by NSA action may not be feasible without a serious cost to ourselves of lost time and productivity. Although I have not been pushing the concept much, I would invite you to consider the model of my side project [1], wherein we use donations to charity to illustrate the importance of action. The donations can either be made immediately or pending completion of the task. This gives a bit of financial weight to the activism, if not direct and acute. It also benefits charities and in some cases gets the charities involved in providing pressure from another angle. To date, it's only been modestly effective with local tasks, but I've not been able to build the momentum behind the model to test it with something larger scope. [1] https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/386/stop-unwarranted-surveilance-on-us-citizens-by-the-nsa https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/386/stop-unwarranted-su...