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People really do believe that they can fight fascism by just avoiding anything that might get them in trouble.
So I'm going to point out that people have already been harassed, arrested, injured, and killed by law enforcement for protesting in other ways too in this country and historically that has also happened.
A demonstration of why a law being enacted (that uses freely /publicly available information) should not be considered a form of harassment.
Further, if it is then it can be argued in a court of law that if it counts as harassment then the law shouldn't enable it to be more effective which is the point.
Calling, emailing, and writing to elected officials isn't harassment, and explaining the very real dangers of the lack of privacy laws and the results of the lack also isn't by itself harassment. But if you will avoid a protest because you feel there may be reprisals against you for it then you're very unlikely to be protesting in the first place. They have already won in this scenario.