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[jellies_two]

From a topic where there was a certain fear that a general stop work might result in getting fired. Or worse if one marched.

What about an internet general strike? Say for example on 4th of July (alrhough that feels like too far off) if things have not turned around.

Go to Wikipedia - a message
Go to Reddit - a message
Go to eBay - a message
Go to a thousand smaller sites - a message
Go to play online games - offline
Turn on pandora - a message on repeat
App Store - games and entertainment categories closed for the day

Only site owners need to elect to join. Everyone wanting to participate could elect to not shop online. An opposite of Black Friday. A zero Friday. With enough participation nobody would feel isolated and vulnerable to retaliation.

Obviously this is going to be attacked as punishing all the small business owners etc etc but actually it would threaten the administration where they hurt : their lobbyists and their money, imagine if it was extended. If the plan is to make real world protest too difficult then it will be online, where one can't as easily be intimidated and arrested.

I am pondering this as an idea just if no light appears on the horizon, if the trend of the first 18'days is continued and is persistently down. If the democrats are flailing around stymied. Because so many people say yeah it SUCKS but what can we do? Well one could try to flesh out the idea of an internet stop, and get some traction for it. A date, a hashtag etc.

 

[BadenBadenLily]

Tech leaders are completely spineless so this would never happen.

Anyone have that picture of an executive profile of Jack where it calls twitter the worst company of all time?

 

[daviyoung]

would be easier to tell people to not use the internet for a day than to tell business to not make money for a day just 'cause

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

We've seen that against SOPA:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

 

[jellies_two]

Tech leaders are completely spineless so this would never happen.

Anyone have that picture of an executive profile of Jack where it calls twitter the worst company of all time?

There are a lot of small medium sites.
I fell that with traction the larger ones may realize they are not going to stand out and it could be a good message
Maybe never eBay or google but the remaining punishment is no buying shit online. If a day is too long then go a week.
Wikipedia can cover half their page for an appeal for donations they can't shutter for a day? Mozilla can't? Online game servers can't stop working? Sys admins who care cant discover database issues, oh dear, it appears those alt-right lunatics hacked us and we have to restore from backup.
Passive but smart resistance. It just needs to be coordinated.

 

[Joni]

Why would they? They are a business that likes tax breaks and their right wing consumers . Just look at how easy it would be for Twitter to take a stand with just taking away icons from some pages. Maybe if one of the FCC laws go completely nuts.

 

[Hyperactivity]

We've seen that against SOPA:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

If net neutrality seriously comes under attack again, I hope this happens again.

That was a seriously effective method of getting people to take the time to care about SOPA/PIPA, and it showed that these companies do have power they never seem to want to use

 

[jellies_two]

If net neutrality seriously comes under attack again, I hope this happens again.

That was a seriously effective method of getting people to take the time to care about SOPA/PIPA, and it showed that these companies do have power they never seem to want to use

Net neutrality has been not attacked but already destroyed - the appointment of the head of the FCC was that act. At this point it is off the cliff and on thin air.

People just don't realize it yet. There is too much other crap for the thought leaders to wake anyone up on it

But it's dead jim and there is a wider reason for it's funeral one that is more important.

 

[daxy]

As much as I feel for US citizens having to live under that orange blight, there are also other countries in the world who need to use the internet and who may not think this is that your woes are that significant of an issue. For example, there are probably projects/issues in LDCs or people's own countries that such attention could be devoted to (e.g. women's reproductive rights in Poland--same shit as the US but barely any attention globally). I'm just generally saturated with all the dumb shit coming from the US the past weeks though!

 

[Chichikov]

As much as I feel for US citizens having to live under that orange blight, there are also other countries in the world who need to use the internet and who may not think this is that your woes are that significant of an issue. For example, there are probably projects/issues in LDCs or people's own countries that such attention could be devoted to (e.g. women's rights in Poland--same shit as the US but barely any attention globally). I'm just generally saturated with all the dumb shit coming from the US the past weeks though!

Nana Ruth 2.0!

Also, net neutrality affects everyone around the globe.

 

[jellies_two]

As much as I feel for US citizens having to live under that orange blight, there are also other countries in the world who need to use the internet and who may not think this is that your woes are that significant of an issue. For example, there are probably projects/issues in LDCs or people's own countries that such attention could be devoted to (e.g. women's reproductive rights in Poland--same shit as the US but barely any attention globally). I'm just generally saturated with all the dumb shit coming from the US the past weeks though!

Geo-block the USA then?
Anyway trump is tired of carrying your ass take take take it's a shit deal the ads have a low CPM outside the borders anyway so you probably should either not depend on the USA net as much - it certainly will be increasingly monitoring you under trump - or you could lose a day online and help send a message