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And it's an attack on our liberties.

If this is allowed to be established, it will become like the TSA, intrusive and destructive of its own ends. They will expand to use it to shut down political organizations, use it to track guys who get together at the shooting range, use it to co-opt and shut down political protests, and a host of other abusive shit.

Let your governors and congressmen know, in no uncertain terms, that if this is not immediately banned then you're voting them out of office. No half measures. No "oh no, looks like theres nothing we can do, so sorry citizens!", or "we have to sign it to see whats in it", and no exception like "muh-attached-to-a-bill-that-MUST-pass-think-of-the-troops/children/importantGroupofTheDay!", and no "abstained" votes.

This is not fucking acceptable.

And it's an attack on our liberties. If this is allowed to be established, it will become like the TSA, intrusive and destructive of its own ends. They will expand to use it to shut down political organizations, use it to track guys who get together at the shooting range, use it to co-opt and shut down political protests, and a host of other abusive shit. Let your governors and congressmen know, in no uncertain terms, that if this is not immediately banned then you're voting them out of office. No half measures. No "oh no, looks like theres nothing we can do, so sorry citizens!", or "we have to sign it to see whats in it", and no exception like "muh-attached-to-a-bill-that-MUST-pass-think-of-the-troops/children/importantGroupofTheDay!", and no "abstained" votes. This is not fucking acceptable.

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If you have a smart phone in your pocket, you have already capitulated. You are already in the Panopticon. You do not need to change your behavior for their Panopticon... you need to change your behavior to GET OUT of their Panopticon.

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Don't misunderstand, this isn't our defeat, this is our victory.

We have been hit by a blitzkreig against our rights, including freedom of association and privacy.

The blitzkreig was thought invincible too, no one could see a way around it, no one could see a weakness.

Do you remember how it was defeated?

The state has exposed its flank by putting its tendrils out everywhere.

Could you imagine how damaging a set of easy to use, open source tools would be? The kind that allow anyone to blast out fake gps, fake contacts for tracing, all day and all night?

If even a fraction of people did this, the signal to noise ratio would be worthless, not because they couldn't use it, but because it would immediately raise the legal question of reliability.

"All of this data is in question because we cannot in practice, prove our data is accurate."

It would undermine the legitimacy of the tracing program itself.

What if we all traced back to sam hyde for example?

Finally, as the state's overreach expands, we need only expose it. The greater the overreach the more they will attempt to normalize it, which is a possibility. But so too is the opportunity for outrage as the number of people impacted by it grows. Thats the flank left open by the blitzkreig. Push on it, using the very people they're intruding on, and they'll have no where to go, no retreat, but deeper into the shit. They'll double down (because they always do when pushed) long before they're ready and cause a backlash they were hoping to avoid by incrementalism.

Hence, acceleration*sm.