I agree that "Preaching to the converted" is a major problem in the fight for digital freedoms. But what are the alternatives?
One alternative, which I have attempted at http://digital-freedoms.org/, is to spell out in relentless (and possibly boring) detail, exactly what digital freedoms there are that we might care about, and how copyright and patents and security and various other things might all conflict with those digital freedoms.
The general theme of my approach is not so much "we have to do this", or "we have to do that", but more, "these two things conflict, and we actually have to choose one of them and not the other".
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Re: Preaching to the converted
One alternative, which I have attempted at http://digital-freedoms.org/, is to spell out in relentless (and possibly boring) detail, exactly what digital freedoms there are that we might care about, and how copyright and patents and security and various other things might all conflict with those digital freedoms.
The general theme of my approach is not so much "we have to do this", or "we have to do that", but more, "these two things conflict, and we actually have to choose one of them and not the other".
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Philip Dorrell.
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