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Activists call on storytellers to stop making surveillance tech copaganda, launch toolkit
After a year-long collaboration with Strange Horizons, celebrated authors, and global creative and human rights conferences: a new resource for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism. Digital human rights activists recognize the power of stories to cement or challenge social norms—like whether we all believe ubiquitous surveillance in the hands of the most powerful […]
This toolkit of anti-surveillance stories, reactions, analysis, and incitement was built by privacy activists and human rights experts, in collaboration with Strange Horizons as well as the Decentralized Web (DWeb), DragonCon, and RightsCon communities. “A lot of surveillance tech is snake oil—but when it works, it’s even worse for human rights,” said Lia Holland(they/she), the author and activist who produced and edited the toolkit and serves as Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future. “At a time when mainstream corporate publishing tools systematically undermine the interests of the very people they’re meant to serve—authors, journalists, and creators—we felt it was important to showcase this toolkit using Sutty, a content management system like WordPress that is developed by a worker co-op in Argentina that centers the need of users,” said Lead editor of COMPOST Magazine and Senior Organizer at DWeb, mai ishikawa sutton(they/them).
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