much like journalism & other info professions, there is discussion/deconstruction of “neutrality,” if it can or should even be achieved, etc

& we should all be more aligned re: disinfo bc of the infrastructure that is used to get information out there: computers, data centers, social networks

however! we do have a tradition of activism guided by intellectual freedom: i am inspired by the work of Zoia Horn, who refused to testify and subsequently give up information to the FBI about patrons of her library that were protesting the Vietnam war: archive.org/details/zoia...

I think TikTok culture has done more than anything else to normalize casual surveillance / leveraging commercial surveillance against your friends/partners/colleagues/random strangers than anything else I've ever seen