Cory Doctorow
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who was this year's host, and I spoke to the 50 state AGs and their staff about inshittification.
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And the call to action is the call to action I developed while writing this essay, which is called Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers from the 27th of June edition of Pluralistic.net.
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More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenko, a man who is often called the last Soviet dictator.
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Lukashenko's secret police, still called the KGB, routinely terrorize and kidnap pro-democracy activists, and all forms of protest are banned.
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It was against this backdrop of unrelenting oppression that the activists launched a series of whimsical flash mobs that challenged the Lukashenko regime's willingness to crack down on even the most innocuous behavior.
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One of these flash mobs was an ice cream social.
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Activists converged on a public square to eat ice cream cones.
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Lukashenko's thugs beat them and dragged them away.
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The protesters thought that by daring Lukashenko to arrest people for eating ice cream, they could create a win-win situation.
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Either Lukashenko would be revealed as the kind of asshole who thinks it should be illegal to eat ice cream, or he'd be revealed as the kind of weakling who couldn't keep a lid on dissent.
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Lukashenko took the bait.
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And took it.
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And took it.
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In the years that followed, protesters would be arrested for smiling, clapping, and just standing silently.
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The world learned that Lukashenko was a buffoon, and Belarusians affirmed their view that this buffoon would not hesitate to mete out the most vicious punishments for the most innocuous actions.
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Speaking of thin-skinned, paranoid, wildly corrupt buffoons who will stop at nothing to silence their enemies, how about that Mark Zuckerberg, huh?
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Sure, all the headlines these days are about Zuck's intention to transform Facebook into a sports betting site, but in the UK, Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers keeps finding new ice-cream-grade depths of absurdity to plumb.
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The whistleblower in question is, of course, Sarah Wynne Williams, author of the internationally best-selling memoir, Careless People, which details the criminality she witnessed during her years as the head of Facebook's international relations team.
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Careless People is full of revelations about the gross institutional misconduct of Facebook, including its knowing encouragement of a genocide in Myanmar.
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But it's also full of stories about the severe personal failings of Facebook's executive team, especially Sheryl Sandberg, Joel Kaplan, and Mark Zuckerberg.
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