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[arkproject]

Hi, everyone. I'm Catherine!

I've been talking to a few people about our mission, and I've been thinking... Do we have any ideas for how to restructure the government that don't require full-scale fighting? Like, if we could gather evidence of the corruption and expose it to the public, through, say... cyber espionage? It would at least give us more information, even if we don't go that route.

Reconnaissance is a good first step!

I'm not an expert in this, but I figure one of you is. So I want your thoughts! Or if you have experience hacking and want to teach me. It sounds like it would be easier to sneak in and put a physical receiver into one of their central systems, but in the spirit of keeping our options open, I might as well learn.

Even if doing it the manual way is going to be very slow.

Comments

[arkproject]

You think we shouldn't do something because it doesn't meet a hypothetical ideal outcome?

[somelikeitcold]

I think it's not enough.

[Knowledge is power and all, but power is also power, and it seems like the people suffering under this oppression have none of that.]

What's anyone even going to do with evidence of corruption? Stage a peaceful protest? The people at the top don't care, and the ones in the middle and lower classes don't have any leverage.

I don't want to kill anybody either, but we can't avoid violence entirely. At the very least, we'll need the threat of violence to make the current government back down.

[arkproject]

Maybe I should go over this with you again. I'm trying to find a peaceful resolution. I don't know if this will work or not, that's why I want to look into it.

If you want to go the other way, go ahead. I'm not stopping you.

[somelikeitcold]

Maybe you can explain it better, then.

[This child is so rude.]

How does publicizing any information about corruption change the government, here? What do people do with that information?

[From what he can tell, the democracy here is already a sham. If people disappear just for voicing dissent, then they probably would disappear if they tried to run against an incumbent. Maybe even if they simply voted against the incumbent.]

[arkproject]

If you're this confused about how transparency fights corruption, I don't think it's really worth talking to you about it.

Thanks for the input.

[somelikeitcold]

I know how it fights corruption in places where people aren't being snatched off the streets for having opinions.