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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Public Knowledge hopes to turn geeks into, well, ggeektivists
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Bring in the geeks
By Declan McCullagh
July 15, 2002, 4:00 AM PT
WASHINGTON--Gigi Sohn hopes that geeks have become so enraged by
recent anti-piracy schemes that they'll finally want to fight back.
The 40-year old lawyer, head of the Public Knowledge nonprofit
group here, plans to recruit a ragtag band of technophiles and
train them to become a corps of effective political activists on
the Internet front.
To Sohn, this means seizing on widespread discontent created by the
attempts of Hollywood and the music labels to curtail file-swapping
networks while promoting sweeping new anti-copying laws and
standards.
E-mail campaigns are easily ignored, and transforming online ire
into effective political action is hardly a trivial task.
Geek armies have always been eager to vent in online forums and
clog the e-mail inboxes of errant congressional types. As far back
as 1995, over 50,000 peeved Netizens signed an electronic petition
slamming the Clinton administration's privacy-invasive Clipper
Chip.
[...]
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