Two traditional aspects of protest are in tension—one is that it's a open display, and the other is that it's ephemeral. A world where police can track participants down years after the fact, maybe even after laws have changed, is a different world from one we've ever lived in
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I think about this a lot in the context of Hong Kong, where someone was just put away for six years for displaying a political slogan that was chanted by millions of people over the course of 2019. That conviction wasn't retroactive, but it's just a small further step away.
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More of an eye-opener than a lesson, maybe. Lesson kind of implies there's something we can do about it
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Yes, this also popped up a decade ago with tweets and the Occupy protests.https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/03/tech/social-media/twitter-ruling-transparency/index.html …
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And I'm sure you know that, just saying haha
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I was particularly taken with the information gathering using catfishing via lonelyhearts sites, but that seemed to depend on folks wanting to brag about their outrageous behavior with a potential date - though social media ubiquity and permanence helped clinch the connections.
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LOL dude is a PI https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-slaeker-537744193/ … … Nice Opsec
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This is like saying "if you ignore the illegality of what the poachers were doing, you get a good lesson in the threat social media poses to legal sport hunters." You shouldn't get safe refuge on social media when you're doing things that are unambiguously illegal.
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Try to look past the example and look at it structurally. It's a big world out there where many unambiguously illegal protests are also acts of courage and rectitude.
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