Unfortunately the answer is ”it requires effort”, or in other words: Vote (and hold them accountable after the ballots have been counted), Shout (literally), Protest (including civil disobedience), join any civil or environmental movement, help file legal challenges.

Democracy is for good and for worse not a one-and-done thing, it is a continuous fight.

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anigbrowl 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The time cost to the thousands of people putting in long hours to organize against bad ideas is a measurable loss to the economy. It's very clear that the system itself is deficient because it massively rewards first movers, incumbents, and amplifies economic leverage rather than mitigating it.

	▲	anon7725 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"the economy" is not the only reason that we're alive or form bonds of association.

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scottyah 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This doesn't seem like a very effective method. I would expect something more along the lines of developing laws around noise pollution or something. Literally shouting at a data center seems more cathartic than helpful.

	▲	RankingMember 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's about numbers. A small group isn't going to do anything directly to the data center, but it can raise awareness that other people do indeed care. This, in turn, can slowly (over multiple demonstrations) grow the size of the demonstrations to a critical mass that cannot be ignored.
	▲	noir_lord 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> I would expect something more along the lines of developing laws around noise pollution or something. How do you think you as a voter who presumably aren't a billionaire (or CEO of a mega corporation) with politicians on speed dial who will take the call get the politicians to pass those laws? If the electorate is asleep at the wheel, the people pushing the politicians are all pushing them one way and the car isn't going in the direction that most of the electorate would necessarily want. If you value your democracy you sometimes have to be an active participant in it and sometimes that means turning up more than once ever X years and ticking a box.