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It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Only things that are effective are better than doing nothing. Doing ineffective things only gives a false sense of accomplishment and thus reduces the incentive to try harder to be effective, which means they're actually worse than doing nothing.

Online petitions, "free speech zones," and other easily-ignorable things are like honeypots for activism, designed to neuter it.

[โ€“] cybersin@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Sure, but "effectiveness" is usually not a binary and is often difficult to measure. Small, but persistent changes should still add up. Eventually.

So long as people recognize that these things are in fact quite toothless, I'm not sure they are entirely detrimental. There's no reason this couldn't be used as a starting point for more effective action, now that signatories are in greater contact with the campaign.