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> Code is becoming the new lingua franca of Web activists around the nation

No, it's not. The sentence doesn't even make sense.

> If you can code, you can launch new movements, upend traditional campaign dynamics and pressure candidates in a low-cost, high-tech and highly effective way.

Your power to start a movement online has absolutely nothing to do with if you're a programmer or not.

Honestly, I've stopped reading after this.

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Completely agreed on both points. The first line is so baffling I read it twice. Do they think programmers talk to each other in this mysterious 'code'? The writer of this article would be deeply disappointed by a glance at Code Academy.

I pity the soul who as a result of this article goes to codecademy blindly thinking they are going to learn this new lingua franca that will allow them to 'upend traditional campaign dynamics'.

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