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> Protest organizers should hand out these hoodies, or someone should sell them to protestors... In that particular case, it wold make far more sense to hand o

> Protest organizers should hand out these hoodies, or someone should sell them to protestors... In that particular case, it wold make far more sense to hand out a cost-reduced version that people could wear over their own clothes. I'm thinking of something with the LEDs mounted in a plastic ring like these (https://www.glowuniverse.com/20-inch-glow-stick-necklaces-8-color-mix https://www.glowuniverse.com/20-inch-glow-stick-necklaces-8-...), with a battery box/controller, and maybe some kind of protest messaged taped to it.

moremetadata 4y ago
Some people bring their own masks [1] which work 24/7 in all conditions! For protests, the best form of flattery is to be imitated, so this website [2] and others, lets you pay your respects and flatter the police. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask [2] https://havengear.com/ https://havengear.com/
- EntrePrescott 4y ago
  Depending on where you live, wearing a mask (as in: face covering, not the COVID masks) at a public protest or demonstration can be a punishable offense forbidden by law… and I'm not talking about autocratic states but many civilized and relatively liberal Western countries, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law
  - bb88 4y ago
    > For example, The Georgia Supreme Court found the law constitutional on the grounds that the wearing of the mask was an act of intimidation and a threat of violence So this is not that.
    - moremetadata 4y ago
      Women wear masks ever day with their make up, and also documented with filters on social media. Bet the courts didnt think of masks in that context did they?
  - scarface74 4y ago
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    - EntrePrescott 4y ago
      > You’re putting the US (…) I don't see where you would get that from my comment, which didn't name any country. The point was that the wiki article I pointed to does list quite a number of countries, of which several do fall into the group of “liberal Western countries”. Nobody said that _all_ countries listed there do.
  - _2uwr 4y ago
    I dont give a flying pig about it. I didnt get taught law, its not something that is a compulsory subject to teach and the adult population certainly doesnt get taught about the upgrades or changes to law, so I cant have a democratic debate over the laws that exist. Ergo we are living in a legal dictatorship that put Mussolini to shame, but as most people dont know who he is, thats a point thats wasted on people. Why is the state hell bent on removing everyone's privacy as well? These anti-mask laws are designed to harm the public, especially when considering the riot police will be balaclava'ed up and in full riot gear. If the scientific community especially at Uni, werent such pussy's there would be psychological paper's that exist demonstrating the provocative nature of the riot gear uniform, using military techniques, because the police and military share many training elements. Representative democracy is a trick to cede autonomy over one's actions, so if you needed a way to control a population en-masse, this would be a disarmingly charming way to achieve this objective, the sort of thing a self attracted sociopath would come up with, and something that continues to attract sociopaths with narcissistic attributes around the world to this day!
Foxo 4y ago
It is honestly just a terrible idea - you are essentially placing a target on yourself, no matter how you use it. Simply scanning a crowd of people with a camera, you are identifying people protesting from other civilians, in real-time and no cost. If you watched a crowd from above, over time you could find all sorts of patterns. In some countries, that could mean your whole family disappears. The only groups I see benefitting from this are the agents of oppressive regimes, and the meth heads breaking into your storage shed at night and stealing your bike.

moremetadata 4y ago

Some people bring their own masks [1] which work 24/7 in all conditions! For protests, the best form of flattery is to be imitated, so this website [2] and others, lets you pay your respects and flatter the police. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask [2] https://havengear.com/ https://havengear.com/

EntrePrescott 4y ago
Depending on where you live, wearing a mask (as in: face covering, not the COVID masks) at a public protest or demonstration can be a punishable offense forbidden by law… and I'm not talking about autocratic states but many civilized and relatively liberal Western countries, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law
- bb88 4y ago
  > For example, The Georgia Supreme Court found the law constitutional on the grounds that the wearing of the mask was an act of intimidation and a threat of violence So this is not that.
  - moremetadata 4y ago
    Women wear masks ever day with their make up, and also documented with filters on social media. Bet the courts didnt think of masks in that context did they?
- scarface74 4y ago
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  - EntrePrescott 4y ago
    > You’re putting the US (…) I don't see where you would get that from my comment, which didn't name any country. The point was that the wiki article I pointed to does list quite a number of countries, of which several do fall into the group of “liberal Western countries”. Nobody said that _all_ countries listed there do.
- _2uwr 4y ago
  I dont give a flying pig about it. I didnt get taught law, its not something that is a compulsory subject to teach and the adult population certainly doesnt get taught about the upgrades or changes to law, so I cant have a democratic debate over the laws that exist. Ergo we are living in a legal dictatorship that put Mussolini to shame, but as most people dont know who he is, thats a point thats wasted on people. Why is the state hell bent on removing everyone's privacy as well? These anti-mask laws are designed to harm the public, especially when considering the riot police will be balaclava'ed up and in full riot gear. If the scientific community especially at Uni, werent such pussy's there would be psychological paper's that exist demonstrating the provocative nature of the riot gear uniform, using military techniques, because the police and military share many training elements. Representative democracy is a trick to cede autonomy over one's actions, so if you needed a way to control a population en-masse, this would be a disarmingly charming way to achieve this objective, the sort of thing a self attracted sociopath would come up with, and something that continues to attract sociopaths with narcissistic attributes around the world to this day!

Foxo 4y ago

It is honestly just a terrible idea - you are essentially placing a target on yourself, no matter how you use it. Simply scanning a crowd of people with a camera, you are identifying people protesting from other civilians, in real-time and no cost. If you watched a crowd from above, over time you could find all sorts of patterns. In some countries, that could mean your whole family disappears. The only groups I see benefitting from this are the agents of oppressive regimes, and the meth heads breaking into your storage shed at night and stealing your bike.