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The LA Teachers' Union is going on strike.
Fuck.
Yes.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/29/jane-mcalevey/#trump-is-a-scab
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American social improvements have come substantially thanks to those willing to break unjust laws, at risk of significant people to themselves personally. Literally, thank you.
Inspired by:
https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide.html
We Should All Have Something To Hide
If the federal government can’t even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?
You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.
We Should Have Something To Hide
How could states decide that x should be permitted, if nobody had ever seen or participated in x?
This is also why those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act.
Inspired by:
https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide.html
We Should All Have Something To Hide
If the federal government can’t even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?
You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.
We Should Have Something To Hide
How could states decide that x should be permitted, if nobody had ever seen or participated in x?
This is also why those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act.
Moxie MarlinspikeWe Should All Have Something To HideSuddenly, it feels like 2000 again. Back then, surveillance programs like Carnivore, Echelon, and Total Information Awarenesshelped spark a surge in electronic privacy awareness. Now a decade later, the recent discovery of programs likePRISM, Boundless Informant, and FISA ordersare catalyzing r...