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I agree with you. If the entire tech community was up in arms about this (assuming the treaty is really as bad as this article says), I think politicians would

by pg 17y ago

I agree with you. If the entire tech community was up in arms about this (assuming the treaty is really as bad as this article says), I think politicians would notice. They are not all in the pay of the movie business. The more neutral ones might wake up if it appeared the treaty was going to do net damage to the US economy.

tdonia 17y ago
should this prove to be true, this is an excellent opportunity for [google | yahoo | microsoft | apple | facebook | any other major tech company that relies on people making things with computers] to petition against this with their ad dollars in a very vocal manner. being the first to rally people against this seems like it'd be far more culturally relevant in the long term than spending the money on a superbowl ad and billboard campaign saying "my brand is good".
- guitarjunkie 17y ago
  But how do we convince them that is the case? I agree with you wholeheartedly, but we (or someone) needs to convince these companies that this is something they can afford to lose a little ad revenue on in the short term. Whats more, the companies you listed, especially google, are extremely well connected, I doubt this is shock to them.
hackerblues 17y ago
From the wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War ) "According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.[3]" Protests don't seem to have a very good track record.
- pg 17y ago
  I'm not just (or even) talking about people taking to the streets. If this report is accurate, the treaty would hurt VCs, and VCs aren't powerless.
danek 17y ago
does the EFF lobby? if not, maybe what we need an organization to lobby on our behalf. maybe a new startup could somehow do this? i don't know how it would get the money to do so...

by pg 17y ago

tdonia 17y ago

should this prove to be true, this is an excellent opportunity for [google | yahoo | microsoft | apple | facebook | any other major tech company that relies on people making things with computers] to petition against this with their ad dollars in a very vocal manner. being the first to rally people against this seems like it'd be far more culturally relevant in the long term than spending the money on a superbowl ad and billboard campaign saying "my brand is good".

guitarjunkie 17y ago
But how do we convince them that is the case? I agree with you wholeheartedly, but we (or someone) needs to convince these companies that this is something they can afford to lose a little ad revenue on in the short term. Whats more, the companies you listed, especially google, are extremely well connected, I doubt this is shock to them.

hackerblues 17y ago

From the wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War ) "According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.[3]" Protests don't seem to have a very good track record.

pg 17y ago
I'm not just (or even) talking about people taking to the streets. If this report is accurate, the treaty would hurt VCs, and VCs aren't powerless.

danek 17y ago

does the EFF lobby? if not, maybe what we need an organization to lobby on our behalf. maybe a new startup could somehow do this? i don't know how it would get the money to do so...