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.
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.