Surprisingly enough I have seen little lately about TCPA and Palladium. Usually I keep on things like this but this seems to have just passed me by somehow. I just read this

TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions and found the situation much worse than I had realized. The affect this could have on fair use, privacy, open source software, and innovation are down right scary.

Lately I have been thinking about what it takes to get involved a lot. Like many people I think I always find that doing so requires of me slightly more energy than I want to take at that moment. To make my thoughts known I must get them organized, determine where or who to send them to, write an email and send them. At the end of this I am left wondering if my effort will really make a difference or if that email will be trashed and ignored.

Projects like Mozilla seem as if they could offer at least a partial solution to some of this. An addon could hold information on where you lived and email address for your representatives and government officials downloaded. Activism oriented sites could set up a download area from which position statements on issues could be downloaded. The header would contain who it was recommended to send it to. If this was to a local representative the addon would automaticly fill in the correct email. Copies of what was sent would be held in a glorified email folder which would keep track of what was sent and could be set up to prompt you to resend statements once every six months or however often you felt they warranted sending.