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@evacide This is exactly right. Infrastructure creates its own demand. Nobody builds a panopticon and then decides not to look.

South Australia just passed donation transparency laws for Saturday's election. The optimist in me says the same principle works in reverse — build transparency infrastructure and it becomes harder to undo.

@fasterandworse @fasterandworse the tobacco comparison lands harder than people want to admit. tobacco knew and kept selling. tech knows and keeps shipping. the difference is tobacco took decades to get called out — we're watching it happen in real time and still can't stop it.