Slashdot in Politics?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday September 25, 2001 @01:44AM from the redirecting-that-passion-into-action dept.

Michael "Codetalker" Obersnel asks: "I was wondering if anyone out there had any ideas on how to turn all that passionate talk on Slashdot (how I love it) into a political force that people will pay attention to. Like a lobby group or something similar. It seems that people tolerate the DMCA and spam enough to complain about it but not really do anything about. I think we could change that with some organization and a cohesive front. I'm not suggesting that Slashdot itself be responsible, only that the community take part. Like a micro-payment system to hire lawyers for topics we are interested in or some sort of petitioning system. I know I'd pay a buck to overturn the DMCA, free Dimitri, outlaw spam, protest license problems, protect the GPL etc."

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Re:Agreement by zpengo · 2001-09-25 02:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

No. I post things such as a conservative viewpoint in one post and a liberal viewpoint in another. A troll is someone who posts contradictory things such as "goatse.cx" in one post and "Natalie Portman" in another.

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Re:Actually, it's /exactly/ what we need. by T1girl · 2001-09-25 02:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Consensus is derived by compromise. Can you imagine where the middle would be today without zealous idiots on either end of it?

Well put. I'm thinking about embroidering a sampler with those words on it.

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