For the first time this week, the Blackout protest got 6 o’clock news attention, see the videos below.
Out of the two, TVNZ did the better report. 3 News seemed to have lost the point of what the protest, and the Creative Freedom Foundation, was about.
And well, action has been happening. Not only has the government had to front up about it during question time, but Labour’s Clare Curran has put forward a members bill to remove Section 92A (yes, from the party that brought Section 92A back from the dead). Judging by party support, it should just pass through with 64 supporting (Labour/Jim Anderton, United Future, Act, M?ori Party, Greens). However, this first needs to be brought before the House, and who knows when that would be.
The story also hit Digg earlier today.
Really, for a protest that was probably doomed to fail based on similar attempts made in the past, this has really hit back at everyone who doubted it. The blackout has crossed groups (seriously, I have non-geek/nerd friends who have blacked out their profile on Facebook), and made everyone talk about this section that slipped through quietly at the end. Now that’s the power of the internet.
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