If you follow the rules, no matter what those rules tell you to do, then the responsibility for what happens falls on those who wrote the rules...
You are always resonsable for your own action, even if you yeild control of them to someone esle. Maybe if more people realized this we would be in better shape.
"I just clicked on the link and installed the software like the e-mail told me..."
While I agree with a lot of what you are saying I think this might be more of a digital analog to a sit-in then to violent protest. And is it really stifling anyones free speach?
Even if they mange to bring down the servers there are enough other outlets that no one is going to think "Hmm the websites down, the republicans must not have anything to say". Odds are most people will just tune into Fascist Obnoxious Xenophobe News and find out whats going on, plus all the slant and spin about "these vicous attacks on speech".
There action (however missguided) will be noticed however and raise awarness to the fact that they strongly diagree with what ever it is they are against. This approach of course offers no clear statment of what that might be, and no alternative, so its little more then petty obstructionism. But it is hardly a violent attack (unless they manage to melt a few severs)or a massive threat to free speech.
Offer alternatives instead of opposition so that your actions lead to progress instead of conflict.
Your assuming writing a letter to your Senator actually does something. Even if his office was flooded with letters, he wouldn't even know, and if he did know and on an off chance bothered to read one...
So your saying the solution is what? Do nothing and expect something to change? I'm fully aware that my senator is not the one who will read what I send them, but someone does, and as they are reading a Senator mail odds are they have more infulance then I do. If I can infulence their thinking with what I write maybe it will get passed up the line. (Think of aids as manditor moderator if you want.)
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They found a neutron detector in an Idaho Falls scrap metal yard.
Where can I find a scrape yard like that?
If you follow the rules, no matter what those rules tell you to do, then the responsibility for what happens falls on those who wrote the rules...
You are always resonsable for your own action, even if you yeild control of them to someone esle. Maybe if more people realized this we would be in better shape.
"I just clicked on the link and installed the software like the e-mail told me..."
While I agree with a lot of what you are saying I think this might be more of a digital analog to a sit-in then to violent protest. And is it really stifling anyones free speach?
Even if they mange to bring down the servers there are enough other outlets that no one is going to think "Hmm the websites down, the republicans must not have anything to say". Odds are most people will just tune into Fascist Obnoxious Xenophobe News and find out whats going on, plus all the slant and spin about "these vicous attacks on speech".
There action (however missguided) will be noticed however and raise awarness to the fact that they strongly diagree with what ever it is they are against. This approach of course offers no clear statment of what that might be, and no alternative, so its little more then petty obstructionism. But it is hardly a violent attack (unless they manage to melt a few severs)or a massive threat to free speech.
Offer alternatives instead of opposition so that your actions lead to progress instead of conflict.
Your assuming writing a letter to your Senator actually does something. Even if his office was flooded with letters, he wouldn't even know, and if he did know and on an off chance bothered to read one...
So your saying the solution is what? Do nothing and expect something to change? I'm fully aware that my senator is not the one who will read what I send them, but someone does, and as they are reading a Senator mail odds are they have more infulance then I do. If I can infulence their thinking with what I write maybe it will get passed up the line. (Think of aids as manditor moderator if you want.)
So did I. Maybe more of us should, it all most as easy as reading /.