Social Media, especially Instagram and Tik Tok, have in recent years become a defining tool of education on the topics radicals wish to cover in the hopes that more will understand and eventually join their cause. Shorter videos of complex of social stirs, allow for those with short attention spans, to take in the main ideas of a movement or dogma.

But at the end of the day, a post can be ignored.

Governments including the United States in times of war, have always censored media that criticized them. And there is no reason to why this wouldn't happen now. 

An article by Al-Jazeera covers such a story, and highlights that it's just one of thousands coming from around the globe: 

Thomas Maddens, an activist based in Belgium, noticed a video about Palestine that he posted to TikTok with the word “genocide” suddenly stopped getting engagement after an initial spike.

“I thought I would have got millions of views,” Maddens told Al Jazeera, “But the engagement had stopped.”

 

Our words are important, but those can be swept over. Our actions, however, are unignorable. When a group of people organize to shut down a city block, when they plan to plop themselves in the halls of their capital till, they can get the ear of their representatives, that people are incapable of being silenced.

 

Actions are a Demand, A Promise to be Heard. 

Remember that Active Dissent Does Not Mean Violence.

It is putting our bodies and voices where they will be most effective at reaching our goals.