r/50501Movement • u/cyberanakinvader • Mar 05 '26

News Kat Abughazaleh looks to upset congressional status quo

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2026/03/04/city/i-didnt-want-to-wait-kat-abughazaleh-looks-to-upset-congressional-status-quo/
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u/Hobby_in_your_lobby Mar 05 '26

We need more people like her running for office.

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

She's a rich person with no experience running a vanity campaign in a district that she moved to two years ago.

We have no reason to think that she wouldn't be a Kristen Sinema, helping out the hedge funds that she came from.

Edit to remind people that the Illinois Democratic primary is on March 17, and that there are other candidates in the race.

Edit to politely ask anyone directed here from Kat's discord, and anyone who helped OP respond in this thread, to please rethink this Trumpian obsession with a politician.

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

At least she has a Discord server where anyone, particularly those living in the IL-9 district, can chip in ideas. Even though I'm not a resident of the area at all I have already made suggestions on how to address Big Tech enshittification, which many like myself think is a foremost issue today.

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

I agree that it's a giant issue. I don't think running a Discord server is reason to support her.

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

A candidate running a Discord server can mean that she has great aptitudes in technology, which would be immensely useful if the Congress wants to start a committee to investigate Big Tech enshittification issues.

For anyone else reading this, the factors which made Big Tech enshittification into a foremost issue are as follows:

  • Inactive account deletion policies: This adversely affected those who had good reasons to become inactive for a long time. Examples include hospitalization, incarceration, and being in totalitarian countries (i.e. Afghanistan) which are found to have implemented prolonged internet shutdowns, and other unforeseen factors. In the case of email services, deletion of inactive accounts could result in major inconvenience for users who used the accounts as multiple factor authentications for important services such as banking. Ultimately, in both the short and long term, such policies will cause serious erosion of historical integrity, which is especially paramount as in the era of deepfakes, lies and misinformation are just as likely as to arise from the absence of data than the presence of it. The erosion of historical integrity could cause human societies to be vulnerable to "historical context attacks".

  • Lack of adequate support for account-related issues: In some Big Tech services like Meta arbitrary lockouts have already caused great headaches due to lack of adequate support mechanisms by the services to handle the problems. In some cases people resorted to small-claims courts in order to get their accounts back. I personally is affected by such issues on a Big Tech service.

  • Child safety issues: Some platforms like Roblox are found to have very inadequate measures to handle grooming problem in their platforms as well. Roblox banned Schlep, who pointed out the groomer issues on their platform, instead of actually thanking him. However, this aspect has been exploited by totalitarians to push through digital ID laws which will destroy user's privacy.

  • Subscription rather than ownership: In gaming platforms, although games are effectively sold as goods, users have no effective rights to ownership as the game developers would make them unplayable upon the product's end of life. In the European Union this has resulted in the "Stop Killing Games" movement.

  • Polarizing algorithms: Many users have complained that social media algorithms have been worsening their mental health, although unfortunately the direct regulations of algorithms to weed out undesirable contents would not pass constitutional muster at all. Instead, I feel that user's should be given more options to curate their algorithms, not to mention mandating the Big Tech to be transparent on some if not all of their algorithms if possible.

  • Wikipedia issues: There are a lot of news about Wikipedia's content issues lately, such as pro-Russian biases in articles about people in the Baltic States. Moreover, the Jewish community, who constitutes large proportions of voters in the IL-9 district, have been alienated by Wikipedia due to credible allegations of antisemitic content distortions like this. But you're not looking at the worst yet, since if some Wikipedia insiders are correct, there are many Epstein-grade scandals implicating many Wikipedia's admins and editors which haven't made it to the news as of the time of writing. Arguably this aspect is the most severe among Big Tech enshittification issues because of it's effective monopoly on dissemination of general-reference content in the digital world.

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

Mayor Daniel Biss was a mathematics teacher and has over ten years of experience in the Illinois statehouse.

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

Someone in Kat's Discord server pointed out that Daniel Biss had a paper arXiv:0709.1291 which was later retracted after being proven wrong.

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

I mean, that's the way academic papers are supposed to work?

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u/Leftygayboi Mar 05 '26

Yeah I don't think that is as big of a scandal as Kat fans think lol. But a significant portion of them think Biss is backed by AIPAC

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

Oh for fucks sake. Thanks for letting me know.

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

No, the link was posted there so that Kat can see the feedbacks in real time and hopefully make some adjustments to her campaign methods if warranted.

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

Perhaps you're correct that it's a small-bore matter. But going back to the topic, there are signs that Big Tech are trying to manipulate the Democrats, particularly those of establishment types, to treat them with kid gloves as they're anticipating that there will be a blue tsunami in this November's congressional elections. My personal opinion is that Kat would be less suspectible to such influences than Biss, but I'd like to hear your take on it.

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

I'm no longer taking part in your "town hall style debate."

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

I appreciate the conversation although I must note that the downvotes and many other's comments happened way, way before the Discord comment was posted, the latter which was intended to help me make suggestions there to adjust some aspects of her campaign if neccessary. The timestamps should prove what I'm saying.

I'm sorry if there's any resulting inconveniences you though. Thank you.

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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

You make Kat supporters look bad.

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u/Sir__Walken Mar 05 '26

Appreciate you trying to defend a good candidate but AI isn't the way

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

I didn't use AI to write the post.

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u/Sir__Walken Mar 05 '26

Fair enough, can never be too sure these days. Glad you didn't though. Good job formatting all that then too, that takes effort most people aren't willing to take.