🚀 go-pugleaf

Gibson H R <c9416574@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Ian Semmel (isemmel@rocketcomp.com.au) wrote:
> : I think we should use the net for actions, which has the potential for
far
> : greater impact than people on the street.
> :
> : What about picking a day when we all send emails (or hundreds of emails)
to
> : government departments, politicians the media etc protesting about the
> : legislation. Perhaps the emails could include some pornography for
greater
> : effect.
>
> The problem with such an approach is that non-users (who still make up the
> majority of households) would miss the whole point of the exercise and
> instead the media/govt would simply use this as justification for cracking
> down even more on the 'irresposioble and dangerous crminal pedo terrorist
> hacker drug using bom makers" internet users.
>

But they would know something has happened. Any sort of protest is always
denigrated in such a manner

These are the people we have to get through to. You won't get that standing
on a street corner with a placard. I think that the protest has to be
something that just can't be ignored.