In the US, every major company you can think of that makes its living from the Internet will fall on the side of the regime. Not just media companies, the money movers, purchasing and payment processors, geo-location, hosting, thousands of services, and basically the entire infrastructure underneath everything.

If push comes to shove, first every platform will be used to heavily propagandize, mis-inform, and sow division. (More so than now).

Then it will be used to track, spy, and honey-pot. (More so than now).

Then they’ll simply shut it off.

The era of an anonymous kid sitting in a basement and arguing the merits of some sweaty anarchist manifesto with his friends online is over.

The tool we thought was going to make us ungovernable via free communication will be used against us.

The dream of bringing the species together globally, a meeting of a million minds, to help and understand each other and advance a peaceful utopia is not going to ever happen.

Submitting a vote on an onion forum will start with a simple keystroke and end with a Palentir missile strike on your house.

The best we could hope for will be to seize the physical stations to prevent their use by others, basically nullifying its existence.

  • MrOtingocniOP
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    3 hours ago

    I weighed several responses to your reply, and even tried a few out before backtracking, more so for the benefit of the other readers, but I think I will settle on this:

    I agree with the spirit of your response. I’ve heard variations of my own post for years, before there was an actual public Internet, on BBS and the like.

    And I have made the same reply as you, almost word for word, to them.

    While well intentioned, I realize now that the exasperated and cynical nature that results from watching the pot boil for years and yet the frogs still aren’t jumping out, makes my responses to others sound abrasive and arrogant.

    From this point forward, when ever I see people waking up to the shit storm that hasn’t even happened in full force yet, I am going to be gentle and encouraging with them.

    And remind people that the strength to carry on in a challenging world comes from investing and developing the community, the friends, family and neighbors, around us.