It is possible to fight back effectively in a non-violent and non-criminal manner, and someone has put serious years of study into studying this. His name was Gene Sharp.
However, it requires large-scale organization, coordination, and cooperation and it seems that I can’t seem to get anyone here to understand anything about it. That’s not too surprising though because people here are individualists and used to doing their own thing, not being organized.
To get a sense of what tactics I’m talking about, imagine you got millions of people to go on strike for a few days. Politicians would be forced to do something different if you could get enough people to do it. Problem is that most people will refuse to join the strike until things get much worse, meaning you don’t end up with enough people. So big tech trying to crack down on communications is probably not enough to outrage enough people enough to do something like this, but if they did I bet some anti-censorship laws would get passed really fast.
But I would still recommend reading what Gene Sharp wrote about this stuff because we seem to be moving in a direction where people will be outraged enough that they will be willing to do stuff like go on strike, refuse to comply with orders, etc. Better start reading about how the non-violent tactics work now so you’ll understand later when organizers try to organize.
I also wonder if this is the real goal here.
It is possible to fight back effectively in a non-violent and non-criminal manner, and someone has put serious years of study into studying this. His name was Gene Sharp.
However, it requires large-scale organization, coordination, and cooperation and it seems that I can’t seem to get anyone here to understand anything about it. That’s not too surprising though because people here are individualists and used to doing their own thing, not being organized.
To get a sense of what tactics I’m talking about, imagine you got millions of people to go on strike for a few days. Politicians would be forced to do something different if you could get enough people to do it. Problem is that most people will refuse to join the strike until things get much worse, meaning you don’t end up with enough people. So big tech trying to crack down on communications is probably not enough to outrage enough people enough to do something like this, but if they did I bet some anti-censorship laws would get passed really fast.
But I would still recommend reading what Gene Sharp wrote about this stuff because we seem to be moving in a direction where people will be outraged enough that they will be willing to do stuff like go on strike, refuse to comply with orders, etc. Better start reading about how the non-violent tactics work now so you’ll understand later when organizers try to organize.