User Error: Democracy
By Kairos Action and SiX
From having our freedom to vote and our judicial systems and the free press undermined, to having to deal with disinformation, surveillance, and money in our politics, we’re fighting for a functioning democracy that will serve the majority of people in the United States on particularly difficult terrain.
And unlike the physical world, the virtual world of the internet has no borders and no government. It is dominated by profit-driven private companies led by CEOs who have made it clear that they value their pocketbooks over people’s safety and run their business on the commodification of our personal information. They have unfettered control and set the stage and terms for democratic discourse and movement building; they are determined to monopolize their control over our democracy in order to guarantee their control of our economy.
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