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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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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Seems the probability of oversight after the fact could encourage social media companies to act more responsibly in the moment to prevent radicalization of users that’s too common with their current laissez faire approach
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You can actually see it live in Belarus right now. I’m biased as I am from Ukraine but in my view Belarusians missed some major escalation windows in 2020, which tamed the protest and led to the major crackdown of anything resembling something organized during last months
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