GetUp! has raised a whopping $25,000 in donations in less than half a day for it’s anti Internet censorship campaign, Save the Net (you can donate securely at the GetUp! website). At time of writing, the exact figure is $25,618 and just like their petition, the number rises every minute.
GetUp! will use the funds to run an awareness campaign online, with a $25 donation showing the ad below to 1800 people, $50 to 4000 people and $100 to 10,000. That means we’ve already bought 2,500,000 impressions.
They’ve also released a petition widget you can insert on your website or social networking profile to help collect signatures and raise awareness.
The code you’ll need for the widget:
<div><object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0″ width=”300″ height=”250″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.getup.org.au/flash/widget.swf”><param name=”quality” value=”high”><embed src=”http://www.getup.org.au/flash/widget.swf” quality=”high” pluginspage=”http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”300″ height=”250″></embed></object></div>
