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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
molly@hachyderm.io ("molly clare") wrote:
Something that's sticking in my craw this time around is a parochial and oversimplified view of my home country, the US.
When I've been to re:publica before, I saw the US painted as the evil empire, the cautionary tale, the example to head off before it's too late. Fair, honestly!
But the US is more than just the Death Star. We can take lessons in resistance from the US. Germany needs to hear about the broad community groups that organize, inform, shop, teach, sing, track, and fundraise – and they do this using tech tools, even in a regime with way fewer privacy rights.
US-style tech authoritarianism is coming for us in Germany, so let's learn from US-style activism, too.