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2026-04-12 17:46 UTC
Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, @jim gave some superb responses to this ideology while a guest on a recent Open Democracy podcast episode: "If government continues to be ineffective in its social policy, if it doesn't reduce unemployment and build cohesive local societies, then the answer will be techno solutionism, it will be surveillance, and it will be an increasing pace towards genuine authoritarianism...that is the path we are seeing." https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/ai-panopticon-surveillance-jim-killock-open-rights/
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@MediaActivist@todon.eu 2026-04-12 17:52
Interviewer Matthew Linares posed some great questions, but I feel really missed the point towards the end, determined to direct the dialogue towards in-person organising as a remedy to online enshittification, rather than accepting we must take an anti-ableist, inclusive approach -- building and indeed organising within more democratic and accessible online spaces. Credit to @jim for emphasising that ORG do offer digital meetings too (when I joined ORG a few years back, as a carer for my Disabled partner, I was quick to point out that an emphasis on the "in-person" element, not least in the digital rights movement, wasn't going to sit well with me).