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.
People have this really wrong idea that the internet is a great place to organize because it exists. Honestly its a pretty garbage one.
We all agree that there are algorithms to keep us engaged which does not include leaving the house and getting back to doing things.
Fast communication through our connected world is useful but this idea that the internet or media at large is good “getting people to your side” is just wasted nonsense by people who have found a new faith in the “infinite” internet and think their prayers to it are heard more because they believe.
Add in the fact that you don’t really feel the power and inspiration in a group of like minded souls until you are face to face and in the mix with them. There’s something almost tangible and invigorating about that experience that online communication just can’t replicate.
There are zero media outlets that are not actively suppressing or spinning the news in favor of corporate interests.
For sure
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.
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.
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If you want to see some crazy underhanded shit look at how reckless Ben infiltrates grifters and huge scams (Mormons, Scientology, police departments) and then mysteriously gets videos taken down and demonteized and hidden views etc. Its becuase the evil fucks have connections at google and its all underhanded shit. The dark patterns and malicious coding are all completely real. Its amazing how many of my friends still think I’m insane for thinking that, they all use google and meta products daily and post all their info there with zero thought. “They already have it anyway so I’m not gonna change” yeah OK man just keep giving it to them for more training data.
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
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.
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
I’d like to remind you that we’re in a drought, please limit your shower time.
No. You’ll have to drag me out.
I’m fully soap-ed and not afraid to flail
Yeah! Fight the power!
That’s why revolutionary communication should be low tech and on a need to know basis. Or so I‘ve heard.
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.
I’ve heard good things about various mesh technologies. For example:
!meshtastic@mander.xyz
!meshcore@feddit.org
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.
The song goes
The people’s revolution is going to be a podcast
Someone used all the hot water eh?
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
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.
millions of people can work together fine, it’s when you go beyond that and start expecting most people to get along that things fall apart.
