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I'm sorry but why are activists so stupid? This is going to be taken down by Google. I hope they have backed up the data somewhere else.
My local EFF org, who should know better than anyone the problems it creates, only posts their meetings on Meetup.
You live in a bubble of information and do not yet understand that most activists are only one step above the average non-techy citizen. Significant portions don't even know what Signal is, much less GrapheneOS or self-hosting. No one is coming to save you - you must be the one to do the education in your area.
You don't think the Electronic Frontier Foundation understands the problems of closed third-party platforms?
Honestly any activist organization that doesn't understand how keeping their members' contact info and other details private is important is simply bad at their job (which is most of them). Our current government is using this information to directly target and harass individuals, which was always a given, given enough time in any country.
I have contacted them about this. They don't care. I'm not going to start up a redundant org, as that would neither empower the movement nor protect any of those existing members.
Click the 3 dots and download the KML file yourself smartypants
Thanks for snitching.
What?