CNN has up an interesting article on how technology is transforming protests, and especially the protests in NYC planned for this week's GOP Convention. From websites to text messaging to camera phones, this will likely be the most-protested and most-documented political event since Florida 2000. Some protesters are coming to oppose Bush and boost John Kerry. Others are just showing up to make a lot of noise, and protest anything mainstream. Either way, cell phones, wireless networks, digital cameras, and other bits of tech are changing the way political messages make their way into the public consciousness.
One side of me wants to ask where these creative and annoying protesters were for the DNC convention. But the fair side of me notes that it is entirely fair to protest a president, even if you have no interest in his opponent. I imagine (but have not researched) that Bill Clinton got more protesters than Bob Dole in 1996, after all.
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