⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️
RT from https://twitter.com/rezendi/status/977201190147534848
Modern-day tech civil-liberties / anti-censorship advocacy is so effective that the Senate voted 97-2 against. Good job, everyone!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet
⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️
pnathan's take:
If it hasn't been obvious that grassroots techie activism has been essentially dysfunctional for a decade now, I don't know what to tell you. The only things that wind techies up en masse are things that limit free movies.
Broad-spectrum cultural change needs to have been a focus since Obama's second year in office, not just this asinine SOPA/PIPA/TPP crap.
Law follows culture. The US RW gets this. That's why they change the culture - and won comprehensively across the US.
⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️
To be crystal clear, we should have been working to engage the public in a very public way for 20 years. Movies highlighting freedom and resisting censorship. Movies highlighting tinkering and the freedom to take apart. Clubs for freedom of thought at every university, doing debates and events on this matter.
You say old people don't understand tech and want to limit it?
techies haven't spent the grunt work funding the explanatinos
⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️
Listen, the battle for internet freedom and anti-surveillance was lost through the inaction of many, and the EFFs single-minded pursuit of legal solutions.
Change the culture is changing the law.
Google, Amazon, Facebook win by default through being in our culture pervasively. Now they have power; power now accommodates them.
The Black community has it right when one of their leaders said:
> Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️
The DSA is driving change through aggressive chapter approaches, outreach, and pragmatism. They grab onto the levers of power through acreetting members and bringing the public onboard a popular campaignn #medicare4all
That will effect more change on America than a single org and a handful of lawyers did.
Sorry, EFF. You tried, but you should have been on the electronic frontier, not the courts.
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