Look, I’m not new to this discussion. My interest in acts of protest is rooted in anti-colonialism. It predates the internet, electricity, and the majority of t

Look, I’m not new to this discussion. My interest in acts of protest is rooted in anti-colonialism. It predates the internet, electricity, and the majority of the British Empire. It spans centuries of wars and the rise and decline of organized labor. I’ve vandalized Wikipedia for sillier reasons, and it absolutely does deserve to briefly say that Putin is indeed a piece of shit, because he certainly is. I’m not failing to distinguish anything. We, humans, live on a planet with other humans. We make complex choices every day about how we participate and the compromises we do or don’t accept. Every technology that has any meaning for real people has a role in that. We cannot be neutral even if we wish to be, we don’t even know what neutral is. When I say that my interest is rooted in anti-colonialism, I’m trying to be very clear: people who were and have been regarded as non-existent rightly used disruption and even violence to be more seen and heard. It doesn’t have to be violent. It does have to be disruptive. You don’t get to determine the terms of that, you just have to accept that what’s neutral to you might not be neutral to others… and let your moral judgment be what it is. Edit: and yes I did see if I could edit the Putin page to say he’s a piece of shit, of course I could not. But I certainly would have.