A word of thanks to the online political community.
Today I am thinking about what you have given to DFA and to the other campaigns. I am inspired to write a word of thanks.
Across the all of the Democratic candidacies and campaigns, you have
created an online-supported grassroots movement with no
precedent. Whatever the next phase, I feel safe predicting that
it will also be without precedent and unpredictable.
Thousands of you use the online tools and platforms of the movement,
often daily. You have established communities around homepages,
blogs, email, and a multitude of other services. You have
contributed to a rich literary history of the campaign, written into
blogs and archived on our servers.
Many of you helped create the software we all use. In some cases
you helped write applications directly. In other cases the
movement incorporated in services the software that is part of the
“knowledge commons” of shared intellectual property developed in the
open source software movement. In still others, your companies
have co-evolved with us, to create a new, proliferating industry to
support people organizing for political power.
Thanks to you! Thanks for your very special creative
participation. We will keep faith with each other as we move
forward together.
Finally, as a community we celebrate the personal and political
freedoms we enjoy on the Internet: Freedom of speech, freedom
from censorship, the right to online privacy, freedom of assembly and
affordable access are especially important to the future of our
political participation. We do not take these things for
granted. These freedoms are assured only if we continue to value
and fight for them.
