hfastedge's Journal: Improving protestation.

My history teacher from highschool, mr dickey, a vietnam veteran who appeared pretty balanced with respec to his time there, got me thinking about the topic "how to affect social change" when I was in his class.

The article below, about the spammer millionaire that got his dose of medicine, is a good example of how people are protesting in this day and age.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227

I don't think that human beings are capable of effective physical protest. In the physical presence of each other, people's cerebrums usually take over, and there is lots of fighting.

EG: any WTO meeting, vietnam protests, tianammen...

For those of you that cannot see it, the internet allows for less violent forms of social protest, and hence, its truly more effective for all parties.

Unfortunality,given the current materialism of american culture, you'd probably find yourself in jail for a lot longer of a time if you are part of a group that DDOS'ed the spam king as opposed to had a stinky protest on his front lawn.

With time, the stigmas should fade, and digital expression will evolve. Although, the rights to digital expression are currently being decided for us. Which makes sense, the status quo is always sought to be preserved. So I find arguing for digital freedom for the sake of digital freedom bullshyte.