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By voting? Civil disobedience isn't the only path to changing laws; it just speeds it up sometimes.


Voting is playing by the rules of the system. The world is changing too fast now to use that a reliable strategy.


Civil disobedience doesn't do anything permanent, unless it results in changes in law.


The issue here is the rules of a human system are in danger of being subverted by people wielding massive computing power.


This doesn't work when the issue is voter suppression. Also, "tyranny of the majority" is a real issue in race relations.




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