Re:Show HN: thedaywefightback.js
by ctdonath on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:19PM
(#7186880)
What, call this number and say something vague about opposing surveillance and supporting a law with an extremely vague name and no link to the actual content thereof?
A momentary tsunami of opinions will soon pass, vs the persuasive job-preserving quiet comments of a few people who know everything. I don't want to knock this effort as all efforts in the same directions help; I'm concerned that it will have little effect, vs the potential of grossly under-used objective tools of actual laws enforced starting with first principles (the Constitution).
Educate users? Start with an up-front link to the actual text of the law, with explanation of how portions of it apply and how it has real teeth vs an agency protected (sometimes with force) by extreme & legal secrecy.
I'm suspect of bills named as vapidly as "USA Freedom Act" with little addressing of its content. More like a legal Rorschach test, eliciting what individuals want to see and then asking them to act on what they imagined it is.
A momentary tsunami of opinions will soon pass, vs the persuasive job-preserving quiet comments of a few people who know everything. I don't want to knock this effort as all efforts in the same directions help; I'm concerned that it will have little effect, vs the potential of grossly under-used objective tools of actual laws enforced starting with first principles (the Constitution).
Educate users? Start with an up-front link to the actual text of the law, with explanation of how portions of it apply and how it has real teeth vs an agency protected (sometimes with force) by extreme & legal secrecy.
I'm suspect of bills named as vapidly as "USA Freedom Act" with little addressing of its content. More like a legal Rorschach test, eliciting what individuals want to see and then asking them to act on what they imagined it is.