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by nandemo 5281 days ago
> No, activism is effective (see: GoDaddy, Arab Spring, Montgomery Bus Boycott), but it's hard and takes real work.

One of these things is not like the others.
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stinkytaco 5281 days ago
They are effective. They all forced someone, somewhere to change, or to at least reevaluate where they stand. The only difference is in degrees.
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nandemo 5281 days ago
Walking to work instead of taking a bus is hard. Facing arrest for breaking an immoral law is hard. Protesting and risking arrest (or much worse) by a thuggish police is hard.

Please don't tell me that changing your hosting is comparable. Besides, we don't know that the GoDaddy boycotting has had any effect on SOPA (as opposed to GoDaddy).

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