Everything wrong with the techie concept political dissidents. In most places, they TRY to be as HIGH as possible.pic.twitter.com/whpNdb1X8a
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Remember, like most human activities, censorship is circumvented in networks. It's rarely your image of the lonely dissident.
For the most part, censorship via blocking is an attempt to delegitimize information & mark circumvention as .. dirty, not okay.
The problem is that this almost requires appeals to authority and verification of ID, which are just hard to integrate w/ anonymity
I have a rule of thumb: if something fits a prescribed narrative doubt it until verified.
.@firstdraftnews for journalists is doing interesting work which could help indirectly with this issue
What do you think such a tool would look like?
I'd love to find anyone in tech who can think outside the box, evolve the human system.
our tool #invisibleink can help with that :)
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