Its interesting how only 20 years ago, the notion of the internet was introduced to the world by silicon valley as “free information, open exchange of ideas, vast information at your fingertips, no censorship, etc...”
In many ways - the reality of the built-out internet is quite the opposite. Just look at China for a very good example of the internet as used for extreme totalitarian control and propaganda purposes - parts of which all governments are doing to some degree.
Yup—I used to be a Big Tech fanboy.
They became evil—and I became a Luddite.
“Just look at China for a very good example of the internet as used for extreme totalitarian control and propaganda purposes - parts of which all governments are doing to some degree.”
You don’t have to look at China, just look here at home. China got a lot of its ideas from our corporations
Our corporations invented the social credit system. You will be banned, fired, demonized, exiled if you don’t toe their pc line. And that’s been going for much longer than China’s social credit system.