Save Your Space Campaign

There’s a post over at Mashable about a campaign called “Save Your Space” designed to get a million signatures on a petition asking government to amend the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA).  Currently DOPA is written so that it prohibits schools and libraries receiving federal funding from allowing access to social networking sites.  As I’ve written before, the idea of completely blocking these sites is ridiculous.

However, what’s interesting about the campaign is that it didn’t come close to reaching its goal of a million petition signatures in one month.  I have to wonder why.  Is the social networking generation apathetic, or can they simply not imagine a world in which they can’t access sites like MySpace and Flickr? 

Again, I know that some people are against blocking anything on the Internet.  But for all the wrath that debate can stir up – a debate in which I believe it’s possible to reach a middle ground - it’s amazing to me that so few people can be bothered to sign a petition on something as extreme as DOPA.

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