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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja OP 12 Feb \ parent \ on: Why I'm Paranoid privacy
So why resist when resistance is futile? Recently I finished a game called "1000x Resist" and the Hong Kong protests were part of two of the character's backstories. I found this scene especially relevant.
Before this scene the Mother is talking about how maybe they shouldn't have resisted since all that did was cause the CCP to bring their fist down harder. So maybe life would have just been easier if they just obeyed. Afterall, they lost anyway.
FATHER: You remember? In the streets...hundreds of thousands marching shoulder to shoulder... Biggest demonstrations in HK history. The world watched it all happen. Heard our voices. Saw us bleed.
MOTHER: So?
FATHER: So if we stayed silent? Didn't stand up for ourselves? They would say...this is how it always was. They would say...this is what the people wanted. But no. They can't say that. Because it has gone down in history... That we resisted fiercely. That we fought for a different future...until we couldn't. That legacy lives in us.
MOTHER: ...dies with us too.
FATHER: Yes. But it lives on in Iris [their child].
Even when resistance is futile, resistance itself is not without purpose.
I may or may not write an article around stories that portray resistance against a regime, their tropes, the real life accuracies of those tropes and why those stories are told through fiction rather than as a boring step by step guide.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 12 Feb
In fact, resistance is important, however useless it may seem. Our form of resistance in relation to privacy must be to demand good practices from the agents who hold our data while we seek truly private ways of expressing ourselves and controlling our assets. As much as the current generation and even mine have given them everything, the future will only be given if we don't resist and don't look for more privacy and control.
Yes, write the article, tag me, I like hearing real stories like this.
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