There is something quite amazing going on which might have unleashed some potential powers we were unaware of. You would have thought Volkswagen would have learned from their early January bummer when Neil from the Camden Network cleverly picked up on an update on Volkswagen's Facebook site asking what they wanted Volkswagen to do this year. Little did they know of course that Greenpeace activists were monitoring their site. But what followed was a massive mistake from a company the size of Volkswagen. Instead of engaging with the thousands of comments from Greenpeace activists, environmentalists, and generally people who became or were interested after discovering Volkswagen poor green ambitions, VW started deleting comments. That might work on emails and letters but on social media you cant really hide anything: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/volkswagens-social-media-facebo.... And so the Jedi Council was born, a Facebook group that continues to grow on a global scale with the aim of mobilizing Greenpeace activists all over the world to unite against the dark side that is Volkswagen in a powerful way that I have never seen before. This is showing social media from it's most powerful side, join in the action: http://www.facebook.com/groups/357653114249902/
Therefore it's very disapointing that the US can even consider censuring the internet, but very important that the likes of Greenpeace and Wikipedia are standing up to that: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/about/sorry-youre-not-allowed-read-int...
To follow up on this, several local networks are joining forces at London Southbank to campaign against Volkswagen on the 28th of January: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/camden/event/volkswagen-day-action. Will this finally make Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn at least talk to Greenpeace?
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