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As if an "old style Senator" would base his support for or against a bill on a website's design.

This is about engaging young nerds and non-nerds, average citizens and making an impact on main stream media. It's a marketing and PR stunt. It will trigger media coverage and thousands of phone calls... politicians fear at least one of those two things like the plague. And it's probably not the phone calls.

We already have a formal projects such as the EFF. They are the backbone of all this.




...and the EFF hasn't been all that wildly successful at bringing the mass of cute-cat-photo-loving 'net users into the issue.




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