Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back
by mjolk on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:29AM
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"Likely the most impactful thing you can do right now is to add the banner to your own site and ask the companies you work for to do the same."
Why do you feel this is the most impactful thing that [I] can do? Specifically, do you believe that putting a banner on webpages will prompt more phone calls to legislators, which will in turn lead to the reduction of surveillance?
The video is heavy handed (actors and names-the-common-person-would-know with sweeping music) saying that surveillance is bad, but it's never clearly articulated _why_ one should believe that data mining by the government is wrong (besides unqualified claims of it being unconstitutional and against imagined civil liberties).
I personally think that there's risk in allowing a government to harvest and store data indefinitely (primarily because an unscrupulous politique could perform a character assassination to push a narrative), but I'm not the target audience for this advertisement.
Why do you feel this is the most impactful thing that [I] can do? Specifically, do you believe that putting a banner on webpages will prompt more phone calls to legislators, which will in turn lead to the reduction of surveillance?
The video is heavy handed (actors and names-the-common-person-would-know with sweeping music) saying that surveillance is bad, but it's never clearly articulated _why_ one should believe that data mining by the government is wrong (besides unqualified claims of it being unconstitutional and against imagined civil liberties).
I personally think that there's risk in allowing a government to harvest and store data indefinitely (primarily because an unscrupulous politique could perform a character assassination to push a narrative), but I'm not the target audience for this advertisement.