Twitter. Social Advocacy Toolkit. A special section on resources for social causes & campaigns By the editors of Socialbrite Socialbrite has created a toolkit for social and political advocacy — an evergreen resource for the social media workshop we put on as part of Internet at Liberty, the conference on Internet freedom of expression organized by Google in Washington, D.C., on May 23-24, 2012. Consider this a good starting point for activists, change agents and political reformers who want to bring positive change to their countries, their communities and the world at large.
We also realize this is a very U.S. -centric directory, so please email us with your submissions or leave your pointers and tips in the comments below. Also see: • Resources for social activists (part of this toolkit), including links to platforms, organizations, action guides and more — please share your tips and favorite tools! 12 social change information guides 12 social action hubs 1 page, PDFDownload flyer (also at bit.ly/12socialhubs) Back to top.
Primaries. Tumblr Takes Fight Against SOPA Up A Notch, ‘Censors’ User Dashboards. Congress is in the process of kneecapping the web as we know it with a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (a similar bill, called the Protect IP Act, is in the Senate). In a misguided attempt to curb piracy on the web, the bills would introduce website blocking at the DNS level, among other things, in a way that would effectively amount to censorship. And they could have disastrous implications. The threat is so serious that many of the web’s largest companies, including AOL, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo, and Zynga sent a joint letter to Congress over the issue. A congressional hearing being held today has prompted many sites to add a ‘Stop Censorship’ banner on top of their logos (you can get one here). And now some other services are taking even more drastic measures. Head to Tumblr right now and log into your Dashboard.
Millions upon millions of users will doubtless run into these blocks of censored text without any idea as to what is going on.
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