Find charities, news outlets, podcasts, rights groups or other entities that match your message and support them.
Donate money, time, and whatever else you can to help.
I think everyone understands that being loud might draw the wrong attention, so do what you can to support the ones that you want as much as you are able.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-LEBANON/JOURNALIST/akveabxrzvr/index.html
I believe this is the article you are referring to.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-LEBANON/JOURNALIST/akveabxrzvr/index.html
Here is the article discussing the journalist. Reuters made an incredible effort to show, with evidence, how directly targeted the journalist group was.
Gerrymandering is complicated. Simplest version; it involves diluting the vote of smaller groups who likely would have been able to vote in representation into the government if not for the interference.
This is done by breaking up that voting group among groups that favor the manipulating party.
The wiki on it does a good job of providing the details.
You are right that anything done can be undone BUT it requires the same level of governmental control. And if you can gerrymander the heck out of the voters, you can pass almost anything.
Note: it is not a purely 'popular' vote. That would bypass gerrymandering. Gerrymandering depends on block voting.
Relevant quote from the article for the critical info to save some the read:
But the problem with using aeration as a proxy for proof of life, many medical experts argue, is that babies don’t have to take a breath for air to enter their lungs. Air can be introduced when the baby’s chest is compressed as it squeezes through the birth canal. If there is an attempt to resuscitate a stillborn baby, that pressure can inflate the lungs. And if a body has started to decompose, gases from that process can cause the lungs to float in water. Even the ordinary handling of a stillborn baby can allow air to enter the lungs.
I suppose it all depends on what you want and what value you place on it.
I am doing the $120/yr unlimited, so that is $10/mo for me. Same price as some streaming service and I use proton a lot more than I do them.
If you find no value in the other features like proton pass, drive or calender, then yeah, maybe it a singular service would be more attractive.
There were several things that changed since winter storm Yuri.
-Many fuel providers stopped being cheap and added heat trace to equipment so it doesn't freeze (a legal requirement the Texas removed years ago. And of course only work if it has power).
-ERCOT established a list of how much fuel is being produced behind each meter. So next time they start shutting off power to "low priority" industrial sector, they don't accidentally shut off their entire fuel supply ...again....
-Data Centers, cryptominers and other massive power sinks are often part of demand management programs. A data center gets paid $$ for every watt they are willing to give up in an emergency.
There are various programs that offer different levels of notice; 24hr, 12hr, 1hr, 15min, no notice. The less notice the better the pay.
Major cryptominers love it; they get paid hundreds of thousands of $$ just to agree to the contract. And if a year goes by and ERCOT only shuts them off once for 15 minutes, then they still get the money. And for every min they are shut off, they get even more $$.
For some industries, a power interruption is costly. For cryptominers it is a minor inconvenience.
Not a fan with how short sighted things still are here, but there are some programs in place now.
Source: Am electrical engineer in the Texas industrial sector.