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2024-09-09 23:35:22
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Electric Sheep on Nostr: "Writing petitions to politicians is meaningless and useless. Those are NOT your ...

"Writing petitions to politicians is meaningless and useless.
Those are NOT your "representatives" in any way."

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If they have no idea what we think or know, they can't possibly represents us. Neither can the public record, which is useful when politicians pushing agendas claim they didn't know their policy would have predictably bad results.

It's also demonstrably untrue. E2EE message scanning in Chat Control was voted down by EU politicians, as says, because of all the experts who communicated with those politicians. Net neutrality was restored in the US for the same reason.

So anyone who says communicating your views to politicians is pointless is a) wrong, or b) a shill or Useful Idiot for the people who want to push stuff like Link Taxes and Chat Control through legislatures without resistance. Or both.
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