{"id":48,"date":"2007-03-13T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-03-13T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:41:53","slug":"the-technologist-agenda-political-activism-for-geeks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"The Technologist Agenda: Political Activism for Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tuesday, March 13th @ 3:30 pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nancyscola.com\/'>Nancy Scola<\/a><em>  Forward Together <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This came into the limelight w\/net neutrality but really started with electronic voting machines<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the political world needs tech people<\/strong><br \/>Al Qaeda &#8220;The Base&#8221; &#8211; the database kept by the &#8220;bad guys&#8221;<br \/>The average congressman doesn&#8217;t know what the term Net neutrality means.<br \/>The level of understanding on capital hill needs a comic book called &#8220;how the net works&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deleting online predators act of 2006 &#8211; had to block social networking sites from libraries to receive fed funding<br \/>410 of congress voted FOR this<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could not imaging going back to your shareholders saying: ok, we really didn&#8217;t do anything, but made our competitor look bad.&#8221; -Mark Warner<\/p>\n<p>Next debate: media reform, wireless spectrum, copyright, broadband rollout, fracturing of the global network<\/p>\n<p>Define the debate in a way that makes sense to us &#8211; DOPA bill, the myspace bill<\/p>\n<p>Keepers of the Medium: The internet has a posse &#8211; candidates trying to race towards the social networks<\/p>\n<p><strong>How technologist can get involved in politics<\/strong><br \/>There are campaigns everywhere! You don&#8217;t need to move anywhere to help. Plenty of people running.<br \/>If you are a problem solver, you will be very valuable in politics<br \/>Be willing to someone who has a political identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why hasn&#8217;t this happened yet?<\/strong><br \/>Politics is messy. no boundaries.<br \/>Technolibertarianism <br \/>Debate will happen w\/or w\/out us, will we have a voice in that debate?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very unpredictable environment &#8211; money isn&#8217;t good.<\/p>\n<p>Groups: EFF, CDT, IPAC, Savetheinternet.com, League of Technical Voters (TX)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 13th @ 3:30 pm Nancy Scola Forward Together This came into the limelight w\/net neutrality but really started with electronic voting machines Why the political world needs tech peopleAl Qaeda &#8220;The Base&#8221; &#8211; the database kept by the &#8220;bad guys&#8221;The average congressman doesn&#8217;t know what the term Net neutrality means.The level of understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}