Sentences with phrase «online protest»

«Flash activism,» the label I prefer for online protest forms such as online petition, can be effective at influencing targets in specific circumstances.

Here's a thought... Has online protest contributed to the «obesity epidemic»?

Also published on HuffingtonPost Here's an angle that just occurred to me about today's widespread online protests against the «Stop Online Piracy Act»: normally we talk about digital activism being HOSTED on the internet, but this is a great example of what happens when...

During the last day of online protest in support of the rules, during the summer, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's leaders, posted defiant statements to their personal Facebook pages.

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Here's an angle that just occurred to me about today's widespread online protests against the «Stop Online Piracy Act»: normally we talk about digital activism being HOSTED on the internet, but this is a great example of what happens when the companies behind the internet start to DRIVE protest.

One day after a massive online protest caused many legislators to withdraw support for SOPA / PIPA, the Department of...

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

The ad is being released as the company amid online protests over the company providing service to JFK during a taxi strike at the airport over President Donald Trump's executive order limiting travel from refugees and migrants from seven countries.

Wikipedia's high - profile blackout stunt offers an intriguing possibility for democratic activists waiting to take online protests into the offline world.

Following the massive online protests last Wednesday, January 18th, both the US House and Senate have withdrawn their...

After months of online protests, Chick - fil - A has announced the return of its classic barbecue sauce.

She has also launched an online protest petition against Horgan, which now has more than 36,000 names.

AT&T, a leading opponent of the federal government's 2015 net neutrality rules, said it would join an online protest this week in favor of keeping the rules.

The online protests highlighted how the biggest tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have taken a back seat in the debate.

Online protest is easy, nearly cost - free in democratic nations, and can help drive positive social change.

But the online protests also highlighted how the biggest tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have taken a back seat in the debate about protecting net neutrality, rules that prohibit internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast from blocking or slowing sites or for charging people or companies for faster speeds of particular sites.

This week, net - neutrality supporters organized an online protest using the hashtag #OneMoreVote to try to pressure at least one more senator to back the resolution.

Chinese popular social networking platform Weibo announced last Friday that they would remove gay - themed contents from its platform, prompting a storm of online protests.

There were early signs the online protest might be having some effect yesterday, after CNN quoted a Senate Democratic aide saying it was proving daunting to senators who until recently had found rare cross-party consensus on the bill.

«Before it looked like it would pass with 80 votes, and now [the online protest] looks like something that will suck the votes away,» the aide told the news outlet.

Capitalizing on an online protest that began over the weekend, opponents of a statewide expansion of ride - hailing services in New York are trying to tie Uber to Trump.

Today is the Internet Slowdown and a ton of popular websites are participating in the online protest against the FCC's proposed «fast lane» option for broadband regulation, including Netflix, Foursquare, Mozilla, Reddit, Digg, Vimeo, Upworthy, and Wordpress.

New regulations or crackdowns are often implemented after new outbursts of online protest.

Common shared how he met Boone Isaacs in 2015, the first year of the all - white slate of acting nominees that inspired the «Oscars so white» online protest and criticism of the academy's diversity.

After the controversy over last year's nominees was crystalized in the «#OscarsSoWhite» online protests (the hashtag was started in 2015), the Academy moved to revamp its membership in an initiative spearheaded by its president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

On November 17, 2011, an incendiary comment made by the sales manager of Thern Da Seafood Pte. Ltd., Chris Lee Aik Chye sparked an online protest by many conservationists who voiced their concerns on NTUC Fairprice's Facebook wall.

Video artist Ali Kazma, who represented Turkey at the Venice Biennale in 2013, has published an online protest against Turkey's government called «Something Rotten in the Republic of Turkey».

She's staging an online protest, in the form of digital counter-programming, during President Donald Trump's State of The Union speech next week.

Alyssa Milano's next project is an online protest in the form of #StateOfTheDream, a digital counter-programming event planned...