Pros And Cons Of Peace Movement

The peace movement intended to affect foreign policy failed in the United States because it was not strategic. Their only form of protesting was street marches. The reading suggests the peace movement would have been more successful if they used the internet.

Online social movements are effective by achieving their goals. The pros are being able to easily advertise and spread the word of their issue, online petitions are accessible to a larger audience, emails are cheap and quick, websites have a lower cost than maintaining offices, and supporters can easily donate money. The cons are policy makers and politicians ignore online social movements because they value emails lower since it is inexpensive and easy.

Electronic Disturbance Theater

is a group that arranges virtual sit-ins by publicly distributing an applet, FloodNet. Their goal is to bring down a website by thousands of protesters on that site at a specified time. I think Electronic Disturbance Theaters do not help social movements. Their actions of what they call disturbing websites is border line hacking. Thousands of protesters bringing down a website is similar to protesters blocking roads that interferes with car traffic. Their method of protesting is negative and harmful.
Antiterror lines is a phone number to monitor infringements on civil rights by government authorities. It is used to record interactions with the police that could be used as evidence. I think antiterror lines could help social movements. It is easy to record a conversation or report an interaction that was with the police. There is no harm done with antiterror lines. The phone line collects evidence that could be beneficial for a social movement.