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Oh, so it's a week of inaction...
How do you propose to build a widespread movement (not just people on Lemmy and Reddit) without trying to inform them about the issues with Flock and similar tech?
The general public has to understand what's even going on before enough people will care to vote differently or pressure public figures to do actually change it.
Nobody is saying this week of action is the final step and once it's over, no one will do anything else about this.
I'll be honest I also assumed direct action instead of awareness campaign
I mean listen, awareness campaign and getting local officials out either commiting to being against or outing themselves as defenders of this stuff (just before many elections) is useful, it's just harder to call it "action" lol