home.social

#dissent — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dissent, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "The institutions did not wait for #SPLC to receive due process—instead, they responded to political pressure and fear. As they did, they crossed a line from being stewards of #charitable giving to becoming instruments of state power to punish #dissent" newsweek.com/charitable-platfo

  2. "The institutions did not wait for #SPLC to receive due process—instead, they responded to political pressure and fear. As they did, they crossed a line from being stewards of #charitable giving to becoming instruments of state power to punish #dissent" newsweek.com/charitable-platfo

  3. US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

    > Spencer Reynolds [senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund] says that, despite the real if limited threat posed ... a category like “anti-tech extremism” could be drawn so broad as to ensnare peaceful data center protesters, AI skeptics, and anyone with a bone to pick with technology that permeates modern life.

    wired.com/story/us-law-enforce

    #ai #dissent #suppression #luddite #wired

  4. "A world without the possibility of undetected dissent is a world where state power faces no friction. Even in democracies, this is dangerous. The capacity to act outside official channels, to organise without surveillance, to maintain private spaces—these are not merely conveniences. They are preconditions for the meaningful exercise of freedom."

    - by Antoin O Lachtnain from @Tupp_ed's The Gist:

    thegist.ie/guest-gist-everythi

    #TheGist #Surveillance #Crime #Criminalisation #Freedom #Dissent

  5. “When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.

    Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.

    A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”

    Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it

    wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stup

    #politics #poverty #dissent #IndonesiaGelap #womensrights #muslimvoices #writer #press #activism #antiintellectualism

  6. “When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.

    Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.

    A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”

    Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it

    wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stup

    #politics #poverty #dissent #IndonesiaGelap #womensrights #muslimvoices #writer #press #activism #antiintellectualism

  7. “When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.

    Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.

    A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”

    Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it

    wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stup

    #politics #poverty #dissent #IndonesiaGelap #womensrights #muslimvoices #writer #press #activism #antiintellectualism

  8. “When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.

    Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.

    A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”

    Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it

    wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stup

    #politics #poverty #dissent #IndonesiaGelap #womensrights #muslimvoices #writer #press #activism #antiintellectualism

  9. “When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.

    Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.

    A nation of sheep has a government of wolves. Those who fight for the sheep are dangerous to the wolves. Perhaps… the wolves need a reminder that, at the end of the day, they all bleed the same colour—and the river of blood enriches the soil for the sheep to graze.”

    Written during the height of nationwide protests in my country that I had to self-censor and avoid naming it

    wrzky.com/the-violence-of-stup

    #politics #poverty #dissent #IndonesiaGelap #womensrights #muslimvoices #writer #press #activism #antiintellectualism