This article from Wired is well worth a read as it outlines the increasing attempts in the US to problematise and criminalise AI resistance movements. Amongst the Trump administrations fevered politicisation of the intelligence services tech resistance is, seemingly, getting the full Luddite treatment with even peaceful, mundane opposition being highlighted as a threat.This is, above all, an ideological move. The state is aligned with Big Tech, Big Tech detests resistance - the absence of credible reasons for targeting organising and protest movements as they currently stand is ultimately irrelevant. This isn't about keeping anyone (or anything) safe so much as finding cultural fault lines to present opposition as an abhorrent threat that can legitimately be subjected to invasive surveillance and harassment.One interesting point of comparison with the original Luddites however, who were subject to all sorts of oppressive measures, including the death sentence, is that they were a…
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