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Never stop speaking out, and if they come for you do not go peacefully. That's about all an individual in an authoritarian society can control.



Dictatorships tend to do worse economically, the biggest example was the Soviet bloc which fell for economic reasons mostly.

You can accelerate this effect by doing sabotage. The WW2 CIA sabotage manual contains a lot of ideas that have pretty good ratio of problems created to personal risk.


That’s the truth, if we remain silent we will be targeted eventually. I am extremely disappointed by the lack of tech colleagues calling this out. I took an oath of ethics to do no harm and I see many people willing to use technology to find and silence critics of the government.




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