88% there: "Don't Mess With The Internet" billboard in Lamar Smith's district

Strange that they'd put together a whole page about this without ever mentioning who this person is or what he's doing that messes with the internet.<p>There seems to be a tendency among people who are <i>really involved with politics</i> to assume that everybody else is also <i>really involved with politics</i>, and therefore don't need any explanation about why we should be so angry about whatever it is we're supposed to be angry about.<p>But we're not. So if you want us to get behind your cause, you're going to need to tell us what it is. Possibly on your giant billboard itself.

I know all about the Lamar Smith debacle, and even to me, this billboard would be ridiculously vague.<p>This is more of a gloating-esque billboard, not an effective one. I completely support the idea, but I think this as poor of "an implementation" as possible.

As one of the co-founders of crowdtilt, I figure we'd mention that this is our fastest growing campaign to break $10k (2 days) to date. Not saying a _whole_ lot since it's only been about a month since launch, but still cool to see it go from Alexis' idea of "let's toss it up and see what happens" to ~90% funded in that time frame.

I wonder if the Billboard Owners are large pro-SOPA media companies. IT would suck if this money went right back into the Pro-SOPA lobby.<p>A better strategy might be hacking the billboard system by buying up remnant space and cancelling after a month. Since it costs money to take down Billboards, and remnant boards are remnant for a reason, they will probably stay up for several months without paying for more than a month. (If they get PSA pricing, it will be even cheaper.)

Does anybody really think this is going to have an influence on Lamar Smith? Maybe I'm just jaded, but I don't see this as changing anything aside from giving money to a billboard company, and emptying the pockets of donors.

The billboard should probably be Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc logos with Lamar Smith holding a gun shooting them with "Stop Lamar Smith from destroying the internet".

Having been born in Texas, I fully support this design. :D

It his the same thing as the super PAC that was started for this same purpose? Or is this an unrelated group of people doing a second billboard?

I don't normally give to charity, but this is totally awesome.

I love it :). It is fun watching this campaign move so fast.

Love it - seriously awesome way to use crowdtilt

a very interesting direction for Crowdtilt. I'm interested to see how democratised crowd funding for political intent plays out.