How to secure your phone before attending a protest
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Got a specific video you could suggest from them?
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Its a balancing act. You shouldn't be recording tiktoks and doing the carlton.
But there is a lot of value in organizers being able to communicate. If you see a fat white kid with an assault rifle, you let people know. Same with when the paddy wagons roll in.
And there is a LOT of value in being able to make it clear to the cops that you are recording before they decide to "teach some people a lesson".
I chat about this with my activist buddies a lot. And one thing we are increasingly realizing is that there is a LOT of value in convincing even a mid-tier IRL streamer to come out. Yeah, they are fucking obnoxious when they are trying to yell to chat. But it is someone who is high enough profile that they won't immediately have their gear destroyed AND privileged enough that they won't even realize that is an option until it is too late. At which point the decision as to how to handle the escalation is already happening.
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How To be Anonymous In A Protest | Burner Phone Tutorial
I think this one is pretty good. Pretty good explanation of how a protester might leave digital information and what to do about it.
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And ideally, ask a friend to use it and do recordable things on it, like making social media posts or taking pictures, that records the phone’s location. That way, the phone has a recorded history of you being elsewhere, while you’re at the protest. An alibi.
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Just an aside that Paddy wagons is pretty racist.
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Every sourcing I have seen comes more from the UK as a way to shorten patrol and the argument that it is an ethnic slur against Irish people is similar to "cracker" in that.. can you REALLY be that racist against the oppressors?
But tweaked anyway. Thanks.
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Yeah racism doesn't apply to whypepo
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Irish people were actually considered "non-white" throughout most of the history of race as a concept. They were only recently recategorized by racists when they felt their numbers dwindling and decided to expand the tent a little.
Irish people have suffered from a history of explicitly racist oppression; calling them "the oppressors" flies directly in the face of history. Their skin colour may be white, but the history of their relationship with race as a power structure is far more complex.
This does not mean that it's impossible for Irish people to be racist themselves, or for Irish people to embrace "white" as an identity. Race is complicated; that's exactly why trying to adopt simplistic attitudes to it never works.
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The guide seems to be aimed at attendees, rather than organizers and media. If someone is showing up to add their voice to the protest, then leaving their phone at home is an ideal way to minimize their footprint.
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Hmm if it's a smartphone, their location can still be tracked even if they're not recording videos for social media. I've never attended a protest, but one of my younger siblings has. I agree with the author here: don't take a smartphone with you. If you need to go to a protest, and it's a charged topic (i.e. people have been fired or detained for it), take a dumb phone and make calls once you're considerably away from the protest's meeting site. Or, buy a burner phone for use only at the meeting site. If video footage is that big of a deal, take an old-fashioned video camera to record.
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That's so old-school racist it doesn't count anymore, like Irish_Americans give a shit in 2025. You're diluting the word, making it worth less.
This is what people mean when they say, "You can't say anything anymore!" They're not mad they can't say n*****, they're mad because of silly shit like this. If everything is racist, language becomes a minefield, impossible to keep up with and navigate.
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Ideally also leave your car at home and take public transit while paying with cash or walk. CCTV and facial recognition are still issues, but you would be reducing your fingerprint a ton.
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What is this "vid-eo chimera" you speak of? Some ancient technology from the Mayans? /j
But seriously, unless there's some reason to stream live, old tricks are sometimes still the best tricks.
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You shouldn’t be recording tiktoks and doing the carlton.
Then why even GO to a protest??? To stand up for our freedoms? Pssshhhh!!!!
does the carlton
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What is this “vid-eo chimera” you speak of? Some ancient technology from the Mayans? /j
I've aged myself, haven't I? lol
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Maybe. I've had the same thought, to the point of bringing a cheap point and click camera or even a disposable one, so you're not alone!
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Yes, the Irish were (and kind of still are) looked down upon by "Whites".
They historically chose to address that by becoming cops. Oppressors. The idea being that if they were useful they would at least be better than the brown and yellow people. And irish cops have caused untold horrors amongst labor and minorities.
So while I disagree that "paddy wagon" is an Irish slur so much as MAYBE it is a cop slur, it is close enough that I'll refrain from using it. But it is still the same issue as with "cracker" where... you are gonna have to try a whole hell of a lot harder for me to care if people's feelings are hurt that folk don't appreciate how many skulls they cracked in the name of impressing the crackers.
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how to secure your phone for a protest.
don't fucking bring it
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If you aren't communicating that a protest happened, then it didn't happen.
It's quite literally the entire point.
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Buy a burner, keep the battery out until you arrive at the protest, remove the battery when you leave the protest. Don't store any phone numbers in that phone.
Not that protesting will do anything anymore, that time has come and gone
