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Alaa Abd El-Fattah
“And you’re in these circles of people sending gifs and heart emojis . . . This medium is stifling.”
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

Alaa Abd El-Fattah
“The blame lies with the perpetrators—not with the millions of overwhelmingly unarmed activists who tried to stop these juggernauts. Yet Alaa’s model here should remind us, wherever we reside, that though it may not be our fault, it is our duty to make time in our organizing and theorizing to confront our defeats. Not to wallow, but because such confrontations are our only hope of seeing the new terrain of struggle clearly.”
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

Alaa Abd El-Fattah
“Sure, it would be nice if the giants of Silicon Valley were dedicated to protecting and advancing human rights, but corporations are not really likely to do any of that.’ What they are built to do is monetize every single transaction . . . I don’t expect either Twitter or Facebook or the mobile companies to change their business models just for activists, so that is not going to happen . . . What needs to happen is a revolution. What needs to happen is a complete change in the order of things, so that we are making these”
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

Alaa Abd El-Fattah
“This critique of the ways corporate communication platforms systematically infantilize and trivialize consequential subjects carries particular”
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

Alaa Abd El-Fattah
“he had watched these networked technologies—filled with so much potential for solidarity, increased understanding, and new forms of internationalism—turn into tools of aggressive surveillance and social control, with Big Tech collaborating with repressive regimes, governments using ‘kill switches’ to black out the internet mid-uprising, and bad-faith actors seizing on out-of-context tweets to slander reputations and make activists markedly easier to imprison.”
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

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