all right, this convinced me to share the Annihilation piece, too

Collective Shout are, honestly, kind of a gift as a galvanizing force for organizing against censorship. They're preachy, they're kind of dumb, they're boastful, they're more than a little incompetent, and most importantly of all: they are eminently defeatable. You can EASILY imagine beating them

It is very easy from an organizing perspective to say "this gaggle of Australian Nazi scolds called MasterCard a few times and got a bunch of games banned. Let's do that, but ten times worse, and really stick it to those idiots". There's a playbook and a very easy-to-hate villain who does truly suck

We're not gonna overturn a global hegemony overnight but we can turn a W into something more if we secure it, and that requires focus

Right NOW, we have a prime opportunity to attack ONE of those targets: credit card companies and payment processors.

We may not be able to change their policies overnight, but reversing damage theyve done to steam and itch is a place we can feasibly get a W if we TRY