hey so uh just a reminder that protests should not be building email lists of attendees and they for sure should not be doing it with facebook and google accounts.
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protest is a moral imperative, but —and let's set aside the actual issue: that facebook and google have a history of supporting authoritarian regimes engaging in brutal crackdowns on their populations by providing e.g., protestor lists, for retaliation— we simply do not need to recreate actblue.
lots of people will flounce about saying how else will we protest if we don't give google and the administration our data they can mine for anti-israel sentiment, college attendance, or social security payments, anything they can jam us or our family member up for and maybe even deport us over?
Shouldn't protests have a goal of building a coalition to mobilize? Without signups and information gathering on potential allies then protests become one-off opportunities to yell. Little more than catharsis.
so i want to give a more detailed response on this, there is a lot here! but as a pro forma matter, it seems like you hold an inferred belief that protest organizers must use platforms that voluntarily turn over protest member information to the government. is that correct or do you need to clarify?
so i want to revisit your original questions with this in mind and juxtapose a couple questions across them that i think are illustrative (see next skeet)
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