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By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism
by themitigating 4y ago
By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism
- rvz 4y agoOr just self-host your repositories and don't deal with centralized Git services given that techies here are hyping around how 'easy' it is to spin up Mastodon instances. Should be even easier to self-host a Git repository then, just like a website.
- nyolfen 4y agoyour goal should be making these impossible to enforce, social activism is not an end in itself
- bilekas 4y agoThis doesn't add up. Should the `work around` not be used because it lessens the need for social activism ? One does not negate the other.
- howinteresting 4y agoSo much the worse for social activism then.
- ssnistfajen 4y agoBypassing the block renders the authoritarian control measures ineffective and/or void. This is an act of resistance in itself. Why do you think bypassing the ban is conforming to authority?
- salawat 4y agoYou bypassing the block remedies the situation for you. The thing is, not everyone is a super techy like you. The problem is everyone else who isn't you having access restored. While F you, got mine is tempting, you gotta remember the follow through. Always punch up.
- ssnistfajen 4y agoWhy do you assume those who know how to bypass the block won't share it? Contrary to your expectations, people don't exist as isolated entities in vacuum.
- themitigating 4y agoYou're assuming that even if the method of bypassing it is widely available everyone can figure it out or has access to help
- ssnistfajen 4y agoBypassing authoritarian control measures isn't mutually exclusive with social activism. Your entire premise was false to begin with.
- themitigating 4y agoAgain, it can be exclusive. People who are able to bypass the restriction might not feel the need to fight it
- ssnistfajen 4y agoWhy do you feel the need to keep inventing false premises? You literally have no point here.
- themitigating 4y agoWhat is a false premise? You're saying that it's not possible a person who disagrees with this block won't fight to overturn it if he can find a work around?
- _dain_ 4y agoThis is called "accelerationism". It does not work. It is a maladaptive thought-pattern, nursed by people on the political fringe. The theory is that as things get worse and worse, there will come a moment when everyone suddenly "wakes up", and acts in unity to overthrow their oppressors and build a better system (under the command of the enlightened few, of course). This happens approximately never (see: Qanon), and when it does, the chances of a good result are even more remote (see: Bolshevism). It serves a useful emotional purpose for the adherents: you don't have to do anything, make friends with anyone, understand the world around you. Just wait for the apocalypse, for the day when the Elect will seize power and shoot their enemies etc etc. Back in the real world, here is how you build a large effective political coalition: by solving people's problems in the here and now. This is how the Fabians built the welfare state.
- practice9 4y ago> This happens approximately never (see: Qanon), and when it does, the chances of a good result are even more remote (see: Bolshevism). I would also count Russia in the current war into the "never bucket". Many expected them to overthrow the dictatorship, but the internal situation only became worse since 2022. If anything as more people leave, system becomes more homogenous and even more supportive of current status quo.