The initiative has been criticised for lack of a clear call to action many times, not least here on HN. If the response was really lukewarm (the contacts to legislators and political representatives looks pretty good?) maybe it's a consequence of that.
I personally have never really liked the framing of the campaign. "The Day We Fight Back"? As if anyone's going to solve this problem between breakfast and their evening snack?
I realize it has a connotation of 'a day on which we start fighting back', which is clearly clumsier as a slogan, but I think building up the expectations on a single day is a bad move in this context. To me it seems that way the initiative gets more fragile than it needed have been.
My respect to the people arranging it though. It's great to see activism protesting these crimes. Keep it up!
Today Is A Day We Try To Take A Sliver Of Our Spare Time And Do Something About Mass Surveillance, and so is every tomorrow until success.
I personally have never really liked the framing of the campaign. "The Day We Fight Back"? As if anyone's going to solve this problem between breakfast and their evening snack? I realize it has a connotation of 'a day on which we start fighting back', which is clearly clumsier as a slogan, but I think building up the expectations on a single day is a bad move in this context. To me it seems that way the initiative gets more fragile than it needed have been.
My respect to the people arranging it though. It's great to see activism protesting these crimes. Keep it up!
Today Is A Day We Try To Take A Sliver Of Our Spare Time And Do Something About Mass Surveillance, and so is every tomorrow until success.