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virtual sit-ins  

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  • A virtual sit-in is a tactic used by electronic activists and Internet activists as a means of taking action against corporations and governments through their websites. The action is conducted entirely online, and its name is drawn from the sit-ins of the civil rights movement, whose purpose was nonviolent civil disobedience. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Virtual Sit-Ins]

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