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.

  • wakko
    11·
    1 hour ago

    This post is about a decade late. It’s already like that or worse.

    So, the real question is - what are you doing about it beside whining into the void? Don’t reply to me.

    Look yourself in the mirror and confront the fact that all of this is happening all around you while you refuse to deviate from your normal daily routine.

  • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
    27·
    3 hours ago

    What do you mean “will be”?

    We’re already there.

    Gestapo agents go door to door

    Police patrol the schools

    Your every movement is recorded and tracked

    Your devices and your wifi can and are used to record your surroundings and identify people with a degree of accuracy that would give kaczynski an aneurism.

    Your every keystroke and page view is stored, monitored and indexed by companies under the guise of ‘legitimate interest’

    Any comments that are deemed negative about technology, ‘AI’ and the actions of the state are monitored and catalogued

    ‘AI’ systems are already being used to target people with drone strikes

    …And yet we all stand here talking as if these things are from some sci fi dystopian future

    • MrOtingocniOP
      9·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, the bear trap has already sprung. The people haven’t realized it because they haven’t tried to pull their leg free yet.

      I honestly didn’t mean to doom post so early in the day. It started as a pithy one-liner and snowballed the more I thought about it.

      • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
        7·
        2 hours ago

        It’s really not looking good, is it.

        Apologies for ‘yes, and’-ing your thoughts into worse ones, but at least you’re not the only one noticing these things

  • mrmisses
    6·
    2 hours ago

    They’re already censoring any hint of a rebellion. I was banned from Reddit for saying “fuck Republicans”, didn’t even get a warning. They don’t want people to know other people are also angry and start thinking they could do something.

  • DougPiranha42
    12·
    3 hours ago

    I’d like to remind you that we’re in a drought, please limit your shower time.

  • NochMehrG@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    That’s why revolutionary communication should be low tech and on a need to know basis. Or so I‘ve heard.

    • cmoney
      1·
      22 minutes ago

      Shortwave radio. I’ve played around with them in the past as well as recently. I live in the US on the gulf coast and picked up stations from Havana to China. The radios are relatively cheap and broadcasting has a far reach for much less power than a traditional FM radio station.

    • MrOtingocniOP
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Man, I was just trying to enjoy my coffee before heading into work. Feels like some Prophet of Doom just stepped into my mind and took a piss all over my thoughts.

      Now I am late. Ugh. I hate this timeline

      • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah it’s pretty average, possibly not quite as bad as your original post though, shutting it off is hard, the kleptos who steal everyone’s money wont be able to shut off the tap.