KONY 2012

Kony 2012 is a powerful youtube video that persuaded viewers and or turned them away quite easily.

Tonnes of people out there are currently criticizing this campaign for the good or bad, either that it is a really good idea and people want to move forward with it or that it is just another "bandwagon" deal where everyone is down for this change for a week and it slowly drifts away.

In my opinion I feel like this will not last because it really only developed over the internet, which because of that then made it to the news. Making him famous will only get the world to know his face. Its not going to allow us to arrest him any sooner or easier just because we know now what he has been doing.  It just doesnt make sense to me that NO ONE knew about this at all until the past week considering they've been working on this for the past 9 years.  

However, thinking about the youtube "phenomenon" thing now, we will not know where it'll go until it happens. "What are we to make of these criticisms if we are supporters of the Internet as a medium for people to forge, share and voice opinions?" It was our choice to watch the video or not. We can either use it or ignore it, just like everyone has done in the past 26 years (ignore).

There is also talk about the fact that they have mostly targeted young adults with this campaign by putting it on the internet where it is most likely to be found by the easiest persuaded kind of people. "Rather than criticise Invisible Children, I think we might celebrate the growth in awareness among young people"

Invisible children's website shows that the reason they want Kony in the public eye is for the world to come together and watch him be taken down "The goal of KONY 2012 is for the world to unite to see Kony arrested and prosecuted for his crimes against humanity". In my opinion this can be done without making this as huge as they did and in a way blowing it out of proportion. I am all for this, but I am not willing to spend money to get a poster and a bracelet, which coincidentally they don't even have enough product to get it shipped out before april 21st, making it pointless. It all seems fishy to me. Another odd remark is, how did they get a picture of him that close which is in the video?

Overall I feel that as a class we should discuss out loud why and why not this is a good idea after researching it.