Politicians in the US and UK want a mass digital surveillance and censorship regime that feeds directly into law enforcement.
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Politicians in the US and UK want a mass digital surveillance and censorship regime that feeds directly into law enforcement. Republicans and Democrats want it. Tories and Labour want it. The companies building out datacenter infrastructure definitely want it. That's why privacy legislation is off the table compared to controlling what people can see and say online.
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Politicians in the US and UK want a mass digital surveillance and censorship regime that feeds directly into law enforcement. Republicans and Democrats want it. Tories and Labour want it. The companies building out datacenter infrastructure definitely want it. That's why privacy legislation is off the table compared to controlling what people can see and say online.
The window of the Internet and social media acting as a democratizing force is starting to close as the powerful wrap their heads around this technology and realize they can just seize control over it like they have everything else.
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The window of the Internet and social media acting as a democratizing force is starting to close as the powerful wrap their heads around this technology and realize they can just seize control over it like they have everything else.
What started with the "cancel culture" panic among elites (i.e., "the plebes are mean to me online") is rapidly turning into "only good citizen who verify their identities can participate and if they say or do something I don't like, they can be swiftly targeted for reprisal."
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Politicians in the US and UK want a mass digital surveillance and censorship regime that feeds directly into law enforcement. Republicans and Democrats want it. Tories and Labour want it. The companies building out datacenter infrastructure definitely want it. That's why privacy legislation is off the table compared to controlling what people can see and say online.
Unsurprisingly they've wanted it since the 60s, when all those punks and liberal-commie started protesting their criminal and imperialist bullshit. It boomed in the 80s and 90s because they thought the tech had caught up but they forgot to account for the number of people needed to watch an entire nation 24/7. Their newest solution is ai of course, but it's going to be 'dog/bread/dog/bread/do-zzt' over everything.
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The window of the Internet and social media acting as a democratizing force is starting to close as the powerful wrap their heads around this technology and realize they can just seize control over it like they have everything else.
@gwynnion I disagree, for one reason: the only media that the Internet is analogous to is the printing press.
The free Internet can never be fully destroyed. There can always be an underground.
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What started with the "cancel culture" panic among elites (i.e., "the plebes are mean to me online") is rapidly turning into "only good citizen who verify their identities can participate and if they say or do something I don't like, they can be swiftly targeted for reprisal."
Meanwhile, it will be illegal to track or post their whereabouts or to identify the masked government agents who show up and kidnap you. Because freedom!
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@gwynnion I disagree, for one reason: the only media that the Internet is analogous to is the printing press.
The free Internet can never be fully destroyed. There can always be an underground.
@gwynnion just as you can publish your own clandestine books and share then around, you can also find ways to protect your packets
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Unsurprisingly they've wanted it since the 60s, when all those punks and liberal-commie started protesting their criminal and imperialist bullshit. It boomed in the 80s and 90s because they thought the tech had caught up but they forgot to account for the number of people needed to watch an entire nation 24/7. Their newest solution is ai of course, but it's going to be 'dog/bread/dog/bread/do-zzt' over everything.
@Kalshann The ultimate promise of "AI" is it will not only make most of us irrelevant but allow them to scale surveillance as needed.
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