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FC: Public Knowledge hopes to turn geeks into, well, ggeektivists

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:40:47 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@politechbot.com Subject: FC: Public Knowledge hopes to turn geeks into, well, geektivists Send reply to: declan@well.com

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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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