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 lesson we learn over and over from tech is that it won't always be the good guys doing it to the bad guys, so it's worth looking at these processes structurally and thinking about what it implies for people whose goals we share and motives we admire
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The tension is between the ephemeral and mass nature of a large protest event, and the ability for governments to analyze such protests forensically without a time constraint, identifying every participant individually. There is no more safety in numbers or in spontaneity
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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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Come on, man. Treason is explicitly defined in the Constitution as "not this"
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I highly respect your efforts with HK protesters and those protests. Democracy is important. The Jan 6 insurrection was a different beast and we should provide no quarter for those fucking assholes either physically nor metaphorically.
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Structural thinkers going to think structurally.
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