Go viral and tweet/facebook/G+ the DemandProgress page.
Harder still:
- Lookup your Senator and Representative's phone number and make a personal call. This gets the most traction as a constituent.
- If you are lazy, sign up on Demand Progress. Eventually you will get an email encouraging you to make a personal call. The software will provide you with the number to call and who you are calling based on your zip code. You don't even have to use Google.
Having HN black out is a dumb move. Most techies are aware of SOPA/PROTECT-IP. Many non-techies do not. Explaining just a little bit to my non-techie friends gets them opposing these bills. When we black out HN, at most we're simply shutting down a source of addiction. Even if it reaches the ears of the legislators, at best it will be seen as children saying, "I /QUIT, and I'm taking my ball with me." A bunch of techies shut down their own community site in protest. Wow ... Failure to understand Rhetorics 101.
Having FB and Google black out on the other hand reaches out to people who are not aware of these issues.
Best if you can convince non-techies to oppose these bills and then to have them call up their Congressmen. Tell them that bills do not, in fact, save jobs and would make life difficult for non-techies still treading water financially.
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261 click on 'Oppose'
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s968 click on 'Oppose'
Slightly harder:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/pipa_sopa (Sends modifiable form email to your Senator and Representative).
Add a comments to the PopVOX entries
Go viral and tweet/facebook/G+ the DemandProgress page.
Harder still:
- Lookup your Senator and Representative's phone number and make a personal call. This gets the most traction as a constituent.
- If you are lazy, sign up on Demand Progress. Eventually you will get an email encouraging you to make a personal call. The software will provide you with the number to call and who you are calling based on your zip code. You don't even have to use Google.
Having HN black out is a dumb move. Most techies are aware of SOPA/PROTECT-IP. Many non-techies do not. Explaining just a little bit to my non-techie friends gets them opposing these bills. When we black out HN, at most we're simply shutting down a source of addiction. Even if it reaches the ears of the legislators, at best it will be seen as children saying, "I /QUIT, and I'm taking my ball with me." A bunch of techies shut down their own community site in protest. Wow ... Failure to understand Rhetorics 101.
Having FB and Google black out on the other hand reaches out to people who are not aware of these issues.
Best if you can convince non-techies to oppose these bills and then to have them call up their Congressmen. Tell them that bills do not, in fact, save jobs and would make life difficult for non-techies still treading water financially.