It's a symbolic gesture. I believe this leads to a fundamental question of whether it's essential to the kind of political movement we represent. So for instan

It's a symbolic gesture. I believe this leads to a fundamental question of whether it's essential to the kind of political movement we represent. So for instance democrats depend on notion of symbolic representation to ground their concept of political representation. Without the former, the latter becomes vacuous. "What kind of advantage does it give us?" seems to be the question. Perhaps it's a moral boost? In the political game, it technically says nothing. In perhaps our own schema of doing things, it technically says nothing. But the idea that people use these tools and can intentionally limit themselves (like with Freedom, the app that locks yr Internet connection) to represent freedom.