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Voting with your wallet is an extremely powerful and simplistic tool. Generating bad PR enforces the former and informs the latter (actual voting) You make th
by B4CKlash 6y ago
Voting with your wallet is an extremely powerful and simplistic tool. Generating bad PR enforces the former and informs the latter (actual voting)
You make the process of handcuffing the DEA in any capacity sound easy.... but lets walk through some high level steps:
You would need to formulate enough PR to generate a movement, that PR would probably need to span political parties, those political parties (because we only have two) would need to work well between themselves to systematically allow for such an approval to pass. Ignoring the fact that most voters are no single-issue voters AND ignoring the fact that gerrymandering has removed/hamstrung entire voting demographics.
It's a mind-numbing exercise to think of generating enough support in today's environment to effect serious change though voting.
- mulmen 6y agoThe inability to make “serious” change quickly or at a national level is a feature. What seems to be missed is how much easier this is at a local level. I’d like to see a lot more advocacy for restrictions on local police departments. I’d happily support a local law that prohibits police use of facial recognition technology.
- B4CKlash 6y agoI guess i'm not sure what you're advocating. Why are we shielding companies from consumer sentiment?
- megaman821 6y agoI don't really care about the companies here, just on what is effective. Would you rather have a handful of companies put a moratorium on selling to facial recognition tech to governments or state and local ordinances banning their use no matter what company the tech is from?
- pessimizer 6y agoI didn't know they were offering a choice.