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Can somebody explain what exactly did they do? Who made those calls?

Tumblr created a page which allowed anyone to be instantly connected to their House Representative, here's the landing page they used to take request for calls http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net

They also censored content on users dashboard e.g http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/sopatumb...

understood, thx for the explanation

Now it makes sense :) thanks!

Did they use tropo?

Nope apparently they used http://www.mobilecommons.com/

Although you could probably swap that with Tropo / Twillio etc

A little irony here: My work's content filtering app blocks this (http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net) pages' content.

Using Mobile commons: http://www.mobilecommons.com/product-tour/mconnect-text-to-p...

See http://americancensorship.org/ - they have screenshots of Tumblr's dashboard during the day.

confusing post

No it's not. You can read the last paragraph to know _who_ made the calls:

"We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives."

Adrian I'm sorry you down voted my comment. I am not confused with the "who" but how the post is written and expressed. It starts saying "we generated", "we've been heard", later it quotes Representative D. Issa who they've "heard" where/how? Did she also call via Mobile Commons? It finally finishes the post saying "connect callers with their Representatives." So no longer mentioning the "we". This post is tough to understand, i.e. a confusing post. Just trying to express my feeling, I'm glad you understood it, but you don't need to be patronising

Do you have some secret ability to know who clicked the downvote button that the rest of us lack?

There is a downvote button?

Seriously, I've never seen the downvote button on this site.

Once you hit 500 karma it "unlocks."

Don't be, it happens sometimes when we contribute something that isn't considered helpful or contributive to the discussion going on. I have been downvoted a lot of times, but meh, sometimes you gain points sometimes you lose them.

I exercised an ability in a case I deemed necessary. Come on, a two word expression with no explanation whatsoever? I saw you did explain yourself after you got downvoted and I'm sorry you got downvoted again (I didn't do that, in case you are wondering).

The point is, I wouldn't have downvoted you if your first comment was as well explained as your second one.

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