[ale] Please reach out to your house rep ASAP

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

On 2017-03-24 08:30, Kyle Brieden wrote:
>> Hah hah.  Encrypted communication is all well and good, but let's not
>> forget Traffic Analysis.
>>
>> http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/23/wolverton-senate-republicans-vote-to-undermine-online-privacy/
>>
>>
>>
>> Better write your congresscritter (
>> http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ ).
>>
>>
>> -- CHS
> 
> I wanted to take this comment and move it to a top level thread for
> visibility.  Please reach out to your congressman ASAP.  You can
> actually use ResistBot (https://resistbot.io/) simply by texting the
> word "resist" to 50409.  I did it last night in about 3 minutes.  It
> makes it very easy to express your thoughts, then faxes a nice letter to
> the congressman.  Whether that fax actually hits a fax machine or is
> virtual now, I don't know, but it was very nice to use.  PLEASE REACH
> OUT!  With it being this easy, there's no reason not to!
> 

Calling works better by some accounts:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/12/politics/utah-woman-twitter-advice/
https://twitter.com/editoremilye/status/797243415922515970