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Would Martin Luther King have enough privacy in 2019 to organize the civil rights movement? Would Ghandi have enough privacy to lead the Indian independence mov
by mch82 8y ago
Would Martin Luther King have enough privacy in 2019 to organize the civil rights movement? Would Ghandi have enough privacy to lead the Indian independence movement?
I hope the answer is still yes, but once the answer becomes no then everyone cares.
That’s my attempt to explain.
- chr1 8y agoBut would they need privacy, or could they use open communications instead? It's one thing when you know peoples rights are being violated somewhere, it's another if you can see that live on youtube. I think if anything current tech would make civil rights movements easier. My example is last years revolution in Armenia. Police knew all of the initial group of protesters, and tapped all their phonecalls, but by decentralizing, by using low risk forms of protests (e.g. honking, blocking the streets by going back and forth on the crossing), by using constant live streams from everywhere, protesters managed to gain and demonstrate support of enough people that the old government had to give up.