Angela Merkel is outraged that the US bugged her phone. However, it expresses regardless of his colleagues 82 million Germans, or for his fellow 500 million Europeans who are victims of the same violence. This shows the importance of personal things for politicians -. Taking the fight to them, break their professional Wall comfort, if you want things to change
When the Swedish Pirate Party was founded, it was the idea that politicians do not care about a few civil liberties unless their jobs were on the line on them. After seeing the intense discussions on monopolies Software patents, concerning Directive Data Retention (aka "the put-a-government monitoring and tag-on-every-citizen act"), and about yet another correspondence the hard shameless monopoly of copyright, what struck me was that everyone discussed these laws as odious. - everyone except politicians they were not part of the debate
. this was very strange, that politicians are usually the first to notice when something is important to many people. But there was no debate on these issues, because that would require politicians - all existing politicians -.. to understand a whole new perspective of civil liberties online (it is not rocket science, really If the right of a citizen applies to a physical letter it applies to communications e of this citizen, too. People are citizens on the Internet, too. You can not see why they do not get.)
My idea at the time was that politicians in general do not care unless you make it personal for them. They are not bad, it's just that their schedule is filled with bloody lobbyists already, and you do not get on it. At least not in the planned framework. But once I got out of that context and challenged politicians on election day at the polling station on their jobs - to buy, I get their attention
The reaction of Merkel mirrors this idea and experience. When she learned that all 500 million inhabitants of Europe had been illegally tapped, there was not a word. When the same was also true of its 82 million Germans, not a single reaction. But when she discovered that own phone was also tapped, there was a complete outrage!
There is an important lesson here.
you can not bring about social change within the outside, but you can create change from the outside if you do personal holders of holders of power.
There are many ways to make it personal without breaking the law or being scary. One of the most obvious is threatening to take their jobs within the democratic system. Some of the secret would be using their existing electronic surveillance against them, as has happened now.
If the old politicians need a taste of their own medicine to understand why the net must remain free, so maybe that's what it takes.
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