How to secure your phone before attending a protest
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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
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But you do see how you're very much engaging in stereotyping by saying that "They historically chose to address that by becoming cops" as if somehow a) all Irish people in America became cops, and b) the experiences of the Irish diaspora in America are somehow representative of all Irish people... Right?
Like, seriously, go ask some Irish people in Northern Ireland how they feel about cops some time. Depending on who you ask you're guaranteed to get some wildly different answers.
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Smile only existed to bleed referral revenues away from search engines. Once enough people started using their app directly they no longer needed smile to make them skip referrers.
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This so much!
Leave all Bluetooth devices at home as well as they have unique IDs that can be tied back to you as well.
And if you're worried about your stereo you can always pull the fuse so it gets no power then put the fuse back when you get home.
Need directions? Print them and DO NOT LOSE THE PAPER!
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Going to peaceful protests are useful because it can help you meet some more like-minded folks.
Not to mention sometimes a protest starts peaceful and then goes to shit.
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I disagree about saving numbers, you should add your emergency contacts and anyone you went with in case you get separated or shit goes down
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I wouldn’t bring paper directions unless they lead to and from a place that ISN’T related to you. Somewhere you know you can get to and from by heart but is a public place, for instance. Don’t give away a beautiful map from your home address To the protest.
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At least you didn't call it a camcorder.
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remove the battery
Don't forget a portable heat gun, suction cup and prying tools. /j
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Again. IF we decide that "paddy wagon" is a slur toward the Irish, it is specifically a slur toward Irish cops. And fuck the police.
Simple as that.
Like I said, I'll try to avoid it in the future because even though there is very little evidence that it is even a slur toward Irish cops, it sounds enough like one that I would rather avoid it. But I am not gonna lose ANY sleep over oppressors getting their fee fees hurt because people don't like them.
