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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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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Or not kill police officers while committing terrorism.
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The state gets to define terrorism, so maybe let go of the specific example here.
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I agree with all these concerns, but I’m not sure what other option there is specifically with regard to a physical mob attack on the seat of government. This can’t happen again.
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It’s disquieting but I don’t know what we do about it. I mean, don’t fuckin post it or livestream it to Facebook seems achievable. Protest organizers have been telling people not to bring their real phones for years now. That’s getting akin to asking people to leave a hand.
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There's times when that livestream or post is important to protecting protesters' safety, or to advancing the goals of the protest. It's not a simple question of not documenting it.
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You've described a deep question, and I'm struggling with it too. Unmentioned extra variable, also for both good and ill: the tools that retain so much info are also tools that allow organization and action previously not feasible. Which makes gov'ts feel beleaguered too.
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Little to be gained from a reductionist debate of "Arab Spring: Facebook = Democracy" vs. "Tools for Tyrants." There are elements of each at work in varying degrees that are destabilizing to the earlier status quo in confounding vectors.
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