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I wrote my thoughts on the New York Times's "The Day The Internet Didn't Fight Back" article here: http://sina.is/thoughts-about-tdwfb/ http://sina.is/thoughts

by sinak 13y ago

I wrote my thoughts on the New York Times's "The Day The Internet Didn't Fight Back" article here: http://sina.is/thoughts-about-tdwfb/ http://sina.is/thoughts-about-tdwfb/ tl;dr The NYT post was inaccurate in lots of ways. It's true that Tuesday was much smaller than SOPA. But judging campaign success by the most important online activist moment in history sets an almost impossibly high bar. Also, SOPA didn't just happen, it was built up to. American Censorship Day happened 2 months before and was much smaller.

jonnathanson 13y ago
"Also, SOPA didn't just happen, it was built up to." That's one of the biggest points missed by the NYT piece, in my opinion. To play devil's advocate, I do think it raised a good point: namely, that this particular fight is more abstract in the public eye. But in the set of all possible points to be made about TDWFB, that was a relatively minor one. SOPA and PIPA had much higher general awareness before the blackouts, and the blackouts were built up to for weeks on end. (Maybe even months, judging from a quick look back at my own HN history from the time.)