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Banners, Splashes, and KILLSOPA.ORG
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000927.html
In "Thinking the Unthinkable About SOPA" a couple of days ago, I touched
on the concept of splash pages, banners, and other "in your face"
mechanisms to help get the word out -- beyond our usual "preaching to
the choir" -- about the evils of SOPA - The Stop Online Piracy Act.
( http://j.mp/wCqiKt [Lauren's Blog] )
My sense is that problems with SOPA and PIPA (Protect IP Act) are now
very well known in the technical community. The question is, how to
get people outside of this community to see what they stand to lose
through such legislation. This means trying to go beyond our usual
"social community" of correspondents and followers.
As I noted in that earlier posting, it's important that we provide
specific information that includes action items people can consider to
reach out to their Congressional officials and others as appropriate
about this issue.
Over on Twitter yesterday, a campaign began for people to overlay
"STOP SOPA" banners on their avatar images. This is a great idea as
far as it goes, but unfortunately does not provide any information at
all about where to find more information about why anyone should want
to stop SOPA. Obviously they can conduct a search, but there's really
no telling where they'll end up from day to day, and some anti-SOPA
approaches are decidedly less likely to have an impact than others.
In light of all this, I've done two things. First, I've created the
domain KILLSOPA.ORG ( http://killsopa.org ) as a proposed destination
landing place for various banner, splash page, and other anti-SOPA
campaigns.
I've also now overlaid this domain name on my standard avatars for
Twitter and Google+, which appear on postings, profile pages, and so
on.
Right now, killsopa.org redirects to an EFF page discussing how to
take action against SOPA, but this will change as time and resources
permit.
Since we're going to be putting messages out in front of people, it
seems logical that these messages should include a destination for
more info, not just the protest statement. Using a domain name in
this situation helps to solve this problem.
If you have any interest in helping with this effort, in particular
with the killsopa.org website itself, please let me know. Of course
your other thoughts and any questions are welcome as always.
Kill SOPA.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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