Well, there's a sight for sore eyes.
Saw a blog post celebrating various events in politics. Fairly standard left-wing stuff for the most part, but one of the events celebrated is, appallingly, the dreaded Texas app-store “papers, please” law.
https://chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/extra-extra-712
Three women, who are not tech people as far as I'm aware, called this out as a privacy and free-speech nightmare.
Good. Non-tech people are starting to pay attention.
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