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A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out.
(www.technologyreview.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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And will once again be ignored.
May I point the audience to the protests before the war in Iraq? Biggest worldwide protests in history at that point, and it did fuck all to stop the war.
When will we learn that change isn't going to come from being reasonable and pointing to evidence. Those things don't mean anything to the Capital class.
I see the biggest protest in history as the first Earth Day Protests, which had some absurd number like 1/10 of everyone in the US, out to protest.
And it solved pollution forever~
Maybe in America but Iraq protests and Occupy were worldwide.
Also the population was a lot smaller then.