I encourage everyone to set aside personal feelings around January 6 for a moment and once again look at the amount of power an angry government can bring to bear on a protest movement retroactively, using the permanent record created by social media surveillance as a weapon.https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1431319316956385283 …
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This seriously tips the balance of power in the favor of the state. The implication for protest movements (again, think Hong Kong or Belarus, not just Jan 6) is "up or out", because either you achieve your aims or you wait for the forensics teams to map out exactly what you did
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The two ways you could avoid state retribution were to mask your identity (which always looks shifty) or to act in concert with enough people that retribution was infeasible. But a permanent mechanized record of protest makes that second approach a gamble. The state now has time.
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Okay, today I learned people are unwilling to set aside their feelings about a specific situation, the greatest political crime in modern history, to think structurally. May all these insurrectionists receive the long prison terms they deserve! God bless America! Use Pinboard.
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In a good way! In a good way! Please don't cancel me I have a family
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I believe calling this a 'protest event' is where you are going wrong. We need to call sedition and treason by it's name even though the QOP is trying to make those words meaningless.
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i remember in 2004 there was very little safety in numbers or spontaneity at Iraq protests and there was no social media then; here, people proactively chose to broadcast their actions on several of those apps quite consciously so "surveillance" seems a bit exaggerated?
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I mean surveillance in a more neutral way here, as the existence of an indelible digital record, much of which is voluntary and public. I'm happy to use a different word if you can suggest a good one.
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Ah yes, the French in Algeria consistenly just let everyone go because they gathered in groups!
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