For completeness here goes the best steelman against GrapheneOS’ abstention I could summarize. Am I missing any other considerations because this is not strong:
Despite age verification laws empirically not working (VPN use just skyrockets), Rawls would argue that civil disobedience requires visibility and the acceptance of associated consequences. Anonymously non-complying against a democratically enacted US law lacks this structure. This makes it more akin to evasion, which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong, it just weakens its high ground status.
For completeness here goes the best steelman against GrapheneOS’ abstention I could summarize. Am I missing any other considerations because this is not strong:
Despite age verification laws empirically not working (VPN use just skyrockets), Rawls would argue that civil disobedience requires visibility and the acceptance of associated consequences. Anonymously non-complying against a democratically enacted US law lacks this structure. This makes it more akin to evasion, which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong, it just weakens its high ground status.