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This is a serious question - how do we roll it back? What is our chance?
by tropdrop 6y ago
This is a serious question - how do we roll it back? What is our chance?
- elliekelly 6y agoThe squeaky wheel gets the grease - contact your representatives. If you contact them about an issue enough they’ll actually get in touch and ask for your input when the issue finally starts getting traction. I think it goes without saying but they’re far more likely to listen if you’re polite and suggest possible solutions instead of just complaining.
- karmelapple 6y agoSpecifically: call them on the phone. Go to town halls if / when they have them. And vote.
- alpha_squared 6y agoThis implies absolute faith in the system. What if the system is flawed or corrupt?
- rabidrat 6y agoThen we have to figure out how to use whatever power we have within this corrupt system to decorrupt it. The "fun" answer, to burn the system down, does not leave a better system in its place. The individual components are left to scramble to develop their own systems, which in the absence of strong moral leadership, are inevitably just as as corrupt as the larger system they came from.
- mistermann 6y agoAre you aware of any noteworthy initiatives underway to decorrupt the system though? I often read that this is "just" all we have to do, but who's going to do it? "The System"? Democracy? AI? Rationalism? Religion? Our moms?
- 3131s 6y agoI'm glad that the Minneapolis folks have skipped this completely useless advice.
- ohazi 6y ago> contact your representatives In California, the correct answer would have been to fucking vote out Feinstein. She practically built the surveillance state.
- hmmokboomer 6y agoWhile people keep willing to work for companies like clearview.ai, Thomson Reuters CLEAR, and Securonet this won't stop.
- fsflover 6y agoSupport Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://eff.org https://eff.org.
- a_imho 6y agoLimit the power of the state? Create incentives and tight feedback loops where the government has to act in the interest of all the people not the just the elites/itself?
- lawn 6y agoSome would say when politics fall, turn to technology. We as technologists should promote strong encryption for everything. Is it a good chance? No. But it's a chance.
- markus_zhang 6y agoYou can't by the conventional means i.e. by voting. The military intelligence industry complex has evolved into something that ordinary people don't understand and ordinary officials can't control. It's already too late to vote them away.