Wired has a quick follow up to the coverage on SaveNetRadio’s day of silence protest. It doesn’t really answer the question I posed. It does highlight that the more important part of the campaign was the request for interested folks to call their congress critters. That portion of the campaign seems to have gone off quite well.
Unfortunately, my original question remains unanswered. I did notice that the coalition does indeed list support from some of the bigger players. How their silence for a day affected the royalty collectors, if at all, remains unclear.
Of course, it occurs to me that this campaign probably had nothing to do with the CRB and everything to do with the individuals who clogged the Congressional switchboard. It is frustrating to read coverage that suggests the protest was meant to affect the CRB directly. The form of the protest itself does not help, it looks like a boycott and as far as I understand these things, boycotts are rarely effective.
Still, I am happy to read the follow up and realize that whatever I found confusing about the campaign, plenty of folks followed the links to the organizing site and took action. I would have preferred that the press call out this connection much more clearly or that the campaign were better constructed so that it was more about individual action than symbolic gestures that could be misinterpreted and deflect some of the potential energy of interested activists.
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