If someone can come up with a specific definition of functionality, I'll build it. Design and everything. I just don't know how something like this should work.
If you're serious, then the website needs several things:
1. a giant counter of # of people who've donated to the fund (or signed 'the pledge', see below!),
2. a live twitter stream for the #NoForgivenessFund hashtag (but someone should come up with something better?)
3. a scrolling list of names of SOPA supporters, weighted to avoid giving much face time to 'safe' seats.
4. a giant 'Donate' banana -- but, heck, we all know that.
Now, actually collecting money for political purposes -- there, you may run into legal problems.
Technically, you need to be a PAC to do the things that the Fund would want to do. See: Stephen Colbert. It starts to get really serious really fast.
As a short-term measure, maybe make the website collect twitter/facebook accounts, and let people validate an email address, and ... hey, how's this for an idea?
A 'Pledge'.
Like some partisans have taken a pledge never to raise taxes, make a similar pro-Internet pledge that people can 'sign' with an email and twitter/fb/g+ account. Part of the pledge will be to vote against and donate to the opponents of anyone who aids and abets anti-internet legislation. The Pledge would be an opportunity for flowery writing, etc.
So you could have a giant list of people -- and later companies -- that would be signing this pledge, and would explicitly be telling you "send me an email with a link to a donate button when you've got something ready to go". Maybe they could specify how much they think they'll be able to donate. (And of course it could be used like The Pledge on politicians).
Probably makes sense to build the pledge site without waiting for a PAC.
Thoughts? Heh, man this is fun to think about ... I'm going to have to cut myself off sometime soon. Must... not... waste time on politics!
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Let's make it exist. What would it take?
Don't know why you're being down voted. Your point is pithy and valid whether or not this damnable bill passes.
Where do we start?
If someone can come up with a specific definition of functionality, I'll build it. Design and everything. I just don't know how something like this should work.
If you're serious, then the website needs several things:
1. a giant counter of # of people who've donated to the fund (or signed 'the pledge', see below!),
2. a live twitter stream for the #NoForgivenessFund hashtag (but someone should come up with something better?)
3. a scrolling list of names of SOPA supporters, weighted to avoid giving much face time to 'safe' seats.
4. a giant 'Donate' banana -- but, heck, we all know that.
Now, actually collecting money for political purposes -- there, you may run into legal problems.
Technically, you need to be a PAC to do the things that the Fund would want to do. See: Stephen Colbert. It starts to get really serious really fast.
As a short-term measure, maybe make the website collect twitter/facebook accounts, and let people validate an email address, and ... hey, how's this for an idea?
A 'Pledge'.
Like some partisans have taken a pledge never to raise taxes, make a similar pro-Internet pledge that people can 'sign' with an email and twitter/fb/g+ account. Part of the pledge will be to vote against and donate to the opponents of anyone who aids and abets anti-internet legislation. The Pledge would be an opportunity for flowery writing, etc.
So you could have a giant list of people -- and later companies -- that would be signing this pledge, and would explicitly be telling you "send me an email with a link to a donate button when you've got something ready to go". Maybe they could specify how much they think they'll be able to donate. (And of course it could be used like The Pledge on politicians).
Probably makes sense to build the pledge site without waiting for a PAC.
Thoughts? Heh, man this is fun to think about ... I'm going to have to cut myself off sometime soon. Must... not... waste time on politics!
I have no idea.
I'd start by asking Redditors how they manage their charity drives, and HNers if there are any Fundable.com replacements that work well.
I won't do any of this; I'm expressly non-political. I just think there's an opportunity here for someone who wants to make a mark on the system.