Ok, fine, but what you fail to recognize that taking a loud public stance against tyranny provides cover for people who are too scared to stand up for their beliefs.

Successful civil rights activism took place in an environment where people were being arrested, beaten, and even killed for standing up for what is right. You could even argue that this created fertile ground for the success of the movement. Failures of justice create hardened activists and support networks, and eventually public support.

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otterley 2 days ago | parent [-]

Comparing the "oppression" of a programmer who is forbidden from distributing an OS that fails to ask the user's age to the actual suffering of Black people in the U.S., who were regularly discriminated against and even lynched, is ridiculous. You'll never persuade ordinary people of this, that way.

	▲	iamnothere 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Average people will come around when they start passing laws requiring deanonymization and arresting journalists and critics. (The latter is already happening, but I expect this to accelerate in the future.) Need to lay the groundwork for opposition now, and that means rallying dedicated people to the cause.
	▲	blurbleblurble a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Since when was surveillance disconnected from civil rights? Since never.