So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.

So... here's the thing:

DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.

The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.

[queenofthecroneage@beige.party]

@Remittancegirl

What? I'm not on IG. There's zip on IG about No Kings? Very weird.

[dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social]

@Remittancegirl heard it's back, but strange anyway

[karmic_resonance@beige.party]

@Remittancegirl There’s a parallel here with Ukraine being dependent on US/Musk platforms. We need to find all the ways the enemy is dependent on us and work that.

[unlikelylass@mspsocial.net]

@Dodo_sipping @Remittancegirl Testing for the inevitable chaos around the actual election day?

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@karmic_resonance Well they are. They're dependent on our eyeballs, our attention, on our commerce, on our addictions.

[karmic_resonance@beige.party]

@Remittancegirl Exactly. We need to continue to encourage ways to not participate.

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@Remittancegirl People are completely captured by Meta (& TikTok & X). You’ll never convince them to leave. (Preaching to the choir, I know.)

[rijim@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl 100%

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl IG is owned by Meta, aka Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook. They're ratfucking Lula's election campaign on behalf of Bolsonaro, so dabbling in politics on the side of the Fash is absolutely typical. Rancid goddamn nazi-snogging billionaires.

[woozle@toot.cat]

@Remittancegirl @karmic_resonance ...on our furries fixing problems in (and caused by) their terrible code...

(This is probably an overoptimistic view, but I like to imagine it.)

[pthenq1@mastodon.la]

@Remittancegirl
Exactly!
If the opposition is completely incapable of organizing something as basic as communications...It basically sounds like blatant incompetence

[queenofthecroneage@beige.party]

@cstross @Remittancegirl

Right, cstross. I don't need you to explain social media to me.

And yep, it's a thing.

Via Public Citizen

"Today, during the peak of our national day of action, the No Kings Coalition Instagram account was taken down and is no longer accessible.

This is a clear attempt to silence the No Kings Coalition & prevent future communications.

Don't let them silence No Kings. Spread the word."

[simonbp@social.linux.pizza]

@Remittancegirl On efficacy, I'm not quite sure what they have achieved other than being a social club for people who were going to vote a particular way anyway.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@Remittancegirl Right up there with unionizing on the work Slack. Genuinely, I need people to start being WAY more cynical and paranoid about the nazis' platforms.

[the_gneech@meow.social]

@Remittancegirl If you’re trying to get the people involved, you have to go where the people are

[suddjian@social.coop]

@tantramar utterly useless response

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@suddjian Hey, thanks for playing! Go fuck yourself!

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

Have they made a website yet? @QueenOfTheCroneAge @cstross @Remittancegirl

[darkroux@troet.cafe]

@Remittancegirl Also scheduling protests with a fixed start and end date is kind of defeating the point.