{"id":3064,"date":"2012-01-19T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:28:30","slug":"the-effectiveness-of-occupy-versus-blackout-sopapipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"The effectiveness of Occupy versus blackout SOPA\/PIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone started to measure the effectiveness (attention, awareness, change) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occupy_Wall_Street\">Occupy movement<\/a> versus <a href=\"http:\/\/sopastrike.com\/\">blackout SOPA\/PIPA<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, Occupy Wall Street and the movements across the country gained plenty of media attention. With people physically taking over public spaces, standing on street corners, and getting pepper-sprayed, it was hard to miss. But was the point well received by the public at-large? Or congress? Or business? Was there a clear goal reached?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, by &#8220;turning off&#8221; websites in order to protest the ability for organizations to&#8230; &#8220;turn off&#8221; websites, did the public miss the point? Did it turn people against Wikipedia (see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/herpderpedia\">@herpderpedia<\/a>)? Did it confuse visitors to Google? Or did it immediately capture the attention of millions of individuals with a few simple lines of code? Congresspeople have already started distancing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder this because the two approaches appear to go about the same thing: protesting a government full of corporate mouthpieces with no real appreciation for what &#8220;real people&#8221; need. Police are trained to quash demonstrations and pepper-spray people, yet nobody but &#8220;the internet&#8221; can mess with the internet (yet..).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone started to measure the effectiveness (attention, awareness, change) of the Occupy movement versus blackout SOPA\/PIPA? On one hand, Occupy Wall Street and the movements across the country gained plenty of media attention. With people physically taking over public spaces, standing on street corners, and getting pepper-sprayed, it was hard to miss. But was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-politics-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}