#find out why the quadrature of the net excist

[magnificent-buckless-butt]

And this is not the time to start doxxing yourself. Scrape your real name from your social medias or keep only one "burner" account, wear a mask when you go out, turn off location on your phone, stop using GApps, write stuff on papers and not on your phone and definitely not online (this includes your calendar or your docs being in a cloud), use fake names when you have to create an account to buy stuff and so on.

Some of you are going to have to realize really fast that posting on social media about your acts of resistance, or the acts of resistance of your workplace/student group, or things you're planning, or even about charitable actions like volunteering, is a stupid idea in the kind of climate where such acts are increasingly incredibly necessary. And that therefore you cannot and should not assume that someone is apathetic or not doing anything important based on their social media activity. And that some acts require secrecy to be effective and people might only be able to safely talk about them years later, if ever.

And then get off your high fucking horse about how people aren't doing anything, how no one is currently firebombing a Walmart, how "white women who say things like 'joy is an act of resistance' take no other acts of resistance" etc. I promise that right now many ordinary people you will never know about are taking actions that seem small on their own but will lessen harm in significant and tangible ways, and that those people are doing more good than anyone whose main revolutionary actions are snarkily complaining online. This is not the time to be tallying social media points and using them to judge each other.