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1. Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2016 03:32:19 UTC Christopher M. Hobbs
   A friend (who is politically 180 degrees away from me) mentioned tonight that most of the protesters at the G20 summits and other events are paid protesters because they have iPhones and Tony Lama boots. I wasn't in the mood for arguing so I didn't question it. It was interesting to think about the concept of paid protesters though, whether or not he was right or wrong in his statement.
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   • dis.k (disk@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2016 07:05:42 UTC dis.k

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     Paid protests are probably not a thing. Capitalists have better ways to compel people to defend the system that exploits them. I remember a few months ago a "protest" here in Cyprus, in support of an industrialist investigated for large scale corruption. His employees showed up outside the courts with digitally printed banners saying "Hands Off Our Boss". Willing to bet an arm they were forced to "protest" under thread of dismissal.
     
     Anti-globalisation protesters with iPhones are not paid. The problem is that the radical movement refuses to understand technology is as political. If they did, they wouldn't touch an iPhone with a 10 metre pole.
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   • Mangolazi (mangolazi@loadaverage.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2016 11:14:45 UTC Mangolazi

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     @cmhobbs@loadaverage.org You can be a hipster making good money in the IT industry and still be a protester. I used to look at hipsters with disdain but hey, whatever works, and joining a protest gets the mental ball rolling to questioning the whole system.
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