Technology Petition

For my live interaction, I decided to do my own form of protest by writing up a petition against the unnecessary censorship of our school's internet. I figured this would be a good chance to not only do some similar things as those in the sixties, but also get some reactions from the student body about the topic of the school internet. It was a pretty neat experience- going around from lunch table to lunch table explaining the petition and asking the students' opinions on the subject. Every single person I talked to could relate to the problems with the web site blocking. One source that wishes to remain anonymous explained that the filter doesn't even do its job that well. "Porn is still accessible" he told me. I'm not going to take his statement with full seriousness, but he does point out the problem that while blocking innocent things, the filter doesn't always catch what it was designed to.
The reasons why I chose to a petition as my interaction are that I really didn't want to do an interview, I thought it'd be cool to protest something, and I didn't actually have the guts or a cause to actually PROTEST. This is similar to the Yippie's movement in that the subjects of both protests were disliked by a large majority of people. This is a stretch, I know. The Vietnam War and internet censorship are totally different, but it's the closest I could get. Overall, I found the activity to be beneficial for me to understand the process of discussing one's views with other people. So although not as drastic, controversial, or interesting as the Yippies, my small scale recreation helped me to better understand the guts they had. It took a lot for them to actually protest something worth protesting and be willing to get beat up in the process.