{"id":13801,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/kickstarter-clapper-and-inertia\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"kickstarter-clapper-at-inertia","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/kickstarter-clapper-and-inertia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter, Clapper, at Inertia"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13801","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Both James Clapper and Kickstarter abdicated their core principles -- but only one apologized.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":12340}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Isinulat ni Ben Resnik<\/em><\/p>

Noong Biyernes, ang website ng crowd-funding na Kickstarter ay gumawa ng isang kakila-kilabot.<\/p>

Despite being made aware of a sexual assault-promoting \"pickup guide\" being marketed on their site, slow-acting company policy and interior bureaucracy prevented the project from being shut down before a deadline was met that released it into the world. As a result, the abhorrent product was successfully funded, sparking outrage from every corner.<\/p>

Then Kickstarter did something extraordinary\" humingi ito ng tawad<\/a>. Malinaw at sa publiko, inamin ng organisasyon na may nagawa itong mali, ipinaliwanag ang mga mekanismong nagbigay daan dito, at nagpasimula ng agarang mga reporma upang maiwasan itong mangyari muli. Naunahan nila ito ng $25,000 na donasyon sa RAINN<\/a>, isang nonprofit na nakatuon sa pagsuporta sa mga biktima ng panggagahasa at sekswal na pag-atake. Ang tugon ng gumagamit ay isa ng sorpresa at pasasalamat, ng paggalang na nakuha para sa isang kumpanya na humawak ng sarili nitong mga pagkakamali sa isang mature at responsableng paraan.<\/p>

Ang kuwentong ito ay kabaligtaran ng hindi gaanong pinangangasiwaan na dissembling ng Direktor ng Intelligence na si James Clapper, na nangako sa isang pagdinig sa Kongreso ilang buwan na ang nakalipas na ang NSA ay hindi nang-espiya sa mga mamamayang Amerikano. Nang harapin ang sarili niyang kasinungalingan matapos masira ang surveillance scandal, ipinaliwanag niya na ibinigay niya ang \"least untruthful answer\"<\/a> naiisip niya on the spot. Sa kabila ng malapit na pag-amin na ito ng mapanlinlang na Kongreso at sa mga mamamayang Amerikano, halos walang pagtatangka ni Clapper o ng gobyerno na tugunan ang kasinungalingan at ang mga pangyayari na nagpahintulot na mangyari ito. (Ang hindi pagkilos, sa pamamagitan ng paraan, na humantong sa amin demanding<\/a> ilang kilusan at pananagutan.)<\/p>

Now as bad decisions go, Kickstarter's policy failure doesn't quite compare to obstruction of Congress. But both instances are subject to the same moral standard\" Kickstarter made an unintentional mistake and owned up to it while Clapper was caught in a lie and walked away. They abdicated their principles on the public stage.<\/p>

So why this upstanding honesty from Kickstarter and complete lack of scruple from Clapper and Congress? It's certainly not a question of public versus private\" Enron wasn't exactly a paragon of respectability. At its most basic, in their respective missteps Kickstarter was prepared to admit fault and the government was not. This may seem self-evident, but looking at American politics through the lens of its officials choosing the inertia of a bad decision because of the fear of being blamed for a worse one explains a lot of our current dilemmas: The damage of the sequester, the horrendous inadequacy of the minimum wage, and the shameful inaction on gun control legislation all exist because those in power would rather live in a dilapidated house than admit that there are structural issues that need fixing. Where there is no movement there can be no fault, and through their practiced idleness politicians let America's situation worsen little by little.<\/p>

This isn't going to solve itself. The only way to force government into admitting its own mistakes is by demonstrating that we won't stand for them. And the only way to do that is by countering their lethargy with energy\" in the street, online, and in the ballot box\" and the determination to demand accountability and oversight.<\/p>

Ben Resnik<\/strong> ay isang intern sa komunikasyon sa opisina ng Common Cause DC. Siya ay isang tumataas na junior at political science major sa Brown University sa Providence, Rhode Island. Maaari mo siyang sundan sa @BizzareBZR.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nKickstarter, Clapper, and Inertia - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/kickstarter-clapper-at-inertia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kickstarter, Clapper, and Inertia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/kickstarter-clapper-at-inertia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/kickstarter-clapper-and-inertia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/kickstarter-clapper-and-inertia\/\",\"name\":\"Kickstarter, Clapper, and Inertia - 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