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Hardball Tactics For The Geek Lobby

Posted by timothy on from the freeze-your-snowballs-of-love dept.

sfjoe writes: "The San Francisco Chronicle has this story on how to effectively make the point about online freedom of speech. In a nutshell, until a legislator gets slapped around (electorally-speaking) for kowtowing to the narrow corporate interests, nobody in Congress will take online civil liberties seriously. On the other hand if, for example, Senator Disney gets his balls whacked (electorally-speaking), monstrosities like the DMCA will start getting bottled up in congressional committees. The NRA has been doing this for years and it works."

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  1. Re:I'm begging.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I suggest Natural Equal Rights for Digerati instead.

  2. Just like the NRA? by jvollmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The NRA has been doing this for years and it works."

    Perhaps this is the key.

    Under some circumstances, exported computers are classified as munitions. Can't we simply apply the Second Amendment to assure our freedom to use computers as we see fit?

  3. Re:I'm begging.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We will never get enough critical mass together to threaten his lock on his voter base

    Never underestimate the power of a little child pr0n.

  4. Re:Two words: Jack Brooks. by einTier · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, I actually got to be his waiter one night in 1996. I'll leave the details up to you, but let's just say it was very satisfying.

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