After a year of measures designed to contain covid, global protests are now widespread, even in mild-mannered Estonia.
When the government announced a controversial reform that would enable police to enter the home of a person who fails to comply with contagious disease prevention measures, it triggered weeks of protest.
“For them this kind of amendment was unprecedented,” entrepreneur and lawyer Alex Bogdanov explains. “Protesting is fine, but you need to channel that energy into all of the tools available to make a real impact.”
Bogdanov had a very specific tool in mind. At the end of March, he launched viralhelp.me in Estonia, a justice as a service platform that uses an algorithm to compose letters of complaint, in this case letters that could be sent to politicians to address political failings.