Mapping threats over next four years

Workshop Wednesday, identifying potential problems from a Trump administration.

A taxonomy of our nightmares

• What are you biggest fears about what Trump will do in the next four years.

• Concern for immigration law. How much worse can it get?
• Digital controlling, esp of social media. Surveillance.
• Rise of hate crimes and normalization of hate rhetoric
• Paul Graham is the y-combinator dude Trump supporter and play a negative role in the US government in technology

   * Increasing the partisan divide and US polarization (rural/suburban, red/blue)
   * Trumps interact with foreign governments 
   * Electoral capture — through gerrymandering, voter roll purges, and other processes will result in GOP rule forever. 
   * Defund TOR, a basic tool we all rely on. 
   * Mandate encryption backdoors 
   * Not have an FCC commissioner or will place a hostile regulator 
   * Change libel laws
   * Trump’s attitude towards the press
   * white supremacy will be legitimized 
   * stop and frisk will become in more cities 
   * Electoral capture can lead to changing the Constitution 
   * Loss of Twitter
   * Trump self brand
   * How Trump will increase surveillance, use it to deport millions 
   * Crackdowns on activists though social media 
   * People will be silenced again like Bush admin Iraq war
   * Cutting of funding of science and research 
   * Incoming DHS chief 
   * Margin populations and health care 
   * Trump getting impeached and getting Pence and Ryan. 
   * Disassembly of the government
   * Privatization of government assets
   * Trump’s empire and use of slaves rise
   * Crash of affordable housing 
   * Hard for worker owned coops to find workers because of housing prices 
   * Trump may crash the economy to benefit his real estate interests
   * Defunding international aid 
   * Work with other nationalists coming into power
   * Build more pipelines
   * Section 2030 of the Communications Decency Act, safe harbor law for hosting companies, maybe be revoked 
   * Adding social justice orgs on terror watch list

Economy

   * Deregulating banks
      ** Legislative

Health

  * Deregulation of OSHA
      ** Executive orders
   * Revoking Obamacare
      ** Executive orders, legislative
  * Defunding Planned Parenthood/passing excessive regulations 
      ** Executive orders, legislative

Immigration

   * Wants to stop fed funding to sanctuary cities.
      ** Executive order
   * Registration/Internment of Muslims
      ** Executive order, NSA letter, executive intimidation

Civil Liberties

   * Might make abortion illegal 
      ** Legislative, SCOTUS
   * Blue Lives Matter bills, saying Fuck Cops is hate speech, banning recording cops
      ** Legislative, create model legislation
   * A new House Un-American Activities Community
      ** Legislative committee
   * Increased use of private prisons
      ** Executive order
   * 2020 census subject to distortion (gerrymandering) 

Tech

   * State capture of social media platforms
      ** Executive intimidation

Environment

   * Environmental issues. Trump wants to defund EPA. 
      ** Legislative, Admin Appointments
   * Fracking and other climate threats that the new regime will try to install. 
      ** Legislative (remove local authority and regulation) Admin Appointments

Early Indicators and Warnings

• Happy end note: government moves slow by design. Efficiency = tyranny. So these changes will be slow to implement.