> I feel like we are way behind on fighting this. Million Techie March? If only.
That's a war that common people will have to fight by themselves, since a lot of techies is against any kind of government regulation.
Same with data privacy laws: those techies are against NSA, but because of ideology a lot of them don't want the government stopping Google, FB, etc from collecting and selling our data.
> The underlying problem in the US is we've stopped talking to each other.
Yes, but this is not just in the US, unfortunately. I have relatives in many places of the world, and things are escalating everywhere.
I blame social media for that.
People can't look at each other in the eye anymore, so they forget what it is like to feel empathy. They congregate around small online bubbles, and a lot of people is almost PTSD-anxious about talking to people of other bubbles. So they resort to humiliation and other tactics. When they try to talk the same way IRL, they get shunned, which makes them feel victimized and justified in their hate. Now we're seeing real politicians espousing the crazy ideas we'd only see in comment sections ten years ago.
That's a war that common people will have to fight by themselves, since a lot of techies is against any kind of government regulation.
Same with data privacy laws: those techies are against NSA, but because of ideology a lot of them don't want the government stopping Google, FB, etc from collecting and selling our data.
What we can do is spread awareness.