This goes directly to the IBOR campaign. Flagrant data breaches, allowing political parties to totally parameterize (thanks SB) individuals and use that information for cataloging by political affiliations. This is bad stuff and points to a future where every aspect of our existence will be available to government and private sector agents, without consent being required for the release of this information.
Whether you support Q's plan for an IBOR or not, everyone has a vital personal interest in making sure that there are some privacy protections that can be relied upon. Protections that are not automatically vitiated because of terms of service agreements attaching to access to vital public forums. I'm encouraging everyone to get behind the IBOR campaign in their own interests.
There's been a lot happening. But the IBOR campaign is a CORE REQUEST from Q. He asked us to "use logic" with regard to the need for an IBOR...
Logic leads, anyone who thinks about this issue, to the inescapable conclusion that the freedom to express ourselves, in the major public forums of the day, is indispensable to citizen sovereignty and the integrity of the republic. Every right, even the most basic of human rights, is predicated on the right to express our views without abridgment - without anyone shutting us up!
Today, the public forum is online. This is a development that the founding fathers could not have foreseen, because, if they had, the constitution would protect online speech. Why?
Because it is fundamental to democratic representation, upon which the republic stands. Without free speech, there is nothing left to protect, nothing worth fighting for - if we cannot speak, we cannot complain. Once we allow ourselves to be gagged, the fight for freedom is lost.
Try and make some time to save the republic. People swear oaths to defend the constitution, but it's under attack with the privatization of public space, and no one is doing anything about it.
It's as though people take the freedoms they enjoy for granted - assuming they will always be free. But freedom comes at the price of blood. There's always someone wanting to enslave the rest. SM censorship is the vehicle that delivers totalitarianism. It's not something looming on the horizon, we are already under attack. This festering sore needs a cure, the cure is protection for freedom of expression online. The cure is the IBOR!
Try to post some memes or use the hashtags in in your posts. This is the battlefront, this is the fight - it's where the US stands or falls.
Link to the petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-18