You need to hit other Trump-supporting and complicit oligarchs where they (financially) live.
So, (1) cancel your Facebook account - FB has long been part of the disinformation matrix, and has recently increased its role in this regard (see discontinuance of automated factchecking of posts). Or, (2) f, because you have long kept up with family and old friends via FB and feel you just can't do without it, John Oliver has provided instructions on how to change your settings on FB to make your personal data much less commercially useful to Zuck: https://www.distractify.com/p/john-oliver-facebook-instructions
Could do these things. Though, a counterargument: I wonder whether these things really affect Meta/Facebook minimally, but the larger effect is to cut you off from people. Personally, I find Facebook mostly useless - but the few people I'm in touch with there, I really value.
But to argue your side...another argument in favor of detaching from social media is that it makes you more likely to engage locally. Local engagement builds personal networks, and is more robust to the kind of runaway effects that happen in social media.
I mean in regards to your first point, you don’t have to immediately delete it. You can take the time gather alternate contacts for the people you can about and then delete.
100% agree: go to the member's district office and make sure the staff know you are a constituent! Forget about calling/protesting members who aren't in your district or your state. It might make you feel good, but unless you're a constituent, it's a time-waster.
Sam, what do you think about attempting to flood this brand-new Dept of Education website? It's stated purpose is to receive reports of DEI practices in the public school system, which Trump's Dept of Education would then consider investigating as discdriminatory.
I think that would be a good move! Since it doesn't have even a Captcha to verify identity, it would not be hard for a savvy coder to generate a ton of fake content to saturate it with entries that misdirect and use up time. This would presumably help forestall an onslaught of abuse that would otherwise be focused on a few schools.
An additional suggested action:
You need to hit other Trump-supporting and complicit oligarchs where they (financially) live.
So, (1) cancel your Facebook account - FB has long been part of the disinformation matrix, and has recently increased its role in this regard (see discontinuance of automated factchecking of posts). Or, (2) f, because you have long kept up with family and old friends via FB and feel you just can't do without it, John Oliver has provided instructions on how to change your settings on FB to make your personal data much less commercially useful to Zuck: https://www.distractify.com/p/john-oliver-facebook-instructions
Could do these things. Though, a counterargument: I wonder whether these things really affect Meta/Facebook minimally, but the larger effect is to cut you off from people. Personally, I find Facebook mostly useless - but the few people I'm in touch with there, I really value.
But to argue your side...another argument in favor of detaching from social media is that it makes you more likely to engage locally. Local engagement builds personal networks, and is more robust to the kind of runaway effects that happen in social media.
I mean in regards to your first point, you don’t have to immediately delete it. You can take the time gather alternate contacts for the people you can about and then delete.
I've been not buying a Swastikar for years. No plans to change that trend.
100% agree: go to the member's district office and make sure the staff know you are a constituent! Forget about calling/protesting members who aren't in your district or your state. It might make you feel good, but unless you're a constituent, it's a time-waster.
Sam, what do you think about attempting to flood this brand-new Dept of Education website? It's stated purpose is to receive reports of DEI practices in the public school system, which Trump's Dept of Education would then consider investigating as discdriminatory.
https://enddei.ed.gov/
What I would possibly propose submitting is a complaint against the unqualified affirmative action hire, Elon Musk, at DOGE.
Frivolous? Potentially meaningful? Potentially salient if enough people did it to gain news coverage?
I think that would be a good move! Since it doesn't have even a Captcha to verify identity, it would not be hard for a savvy coder to generate a ton of fake content to saturate it with entries that misdirect and use up time. This would presumably help forestall an onslaught of abuse that would otherwise be focused on a few schools.
DUMP TESLA
DUMP MUSK
DUMP TRUMP