If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you might have noticed a noose was slipped over your head, and is being tightened every few months. That noose is a hegemony of internet control systems being rolled out worldwide, and it is depriving you of privacy, options, and your voice. Increasingly we are told that Terms and Conditions have been updated, or that increased security measures must be implemented to protect your account. Upon investigation, these policies are not for your convenience or protection at all; they are actually a gradual implementation of the very means to enforce a social credit system, mass and selective censorship, and a monitoring of your activity which goes way beyond what web services should be entitled to.
These powers converge in the public marketplace for ideas, which is literally everywhere you can write or post anything, and have any form of discourse. Facebook, YouTube, Gmail/Hotmail/etc, Twitter/X, Rumble, WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype/Discord/etc, all cloud services, and more – are all now using new policies which are finalizing their control over how you can use them, who can or cannot participate, and for what (socio-political) reasons you can be muted or removed. The censorship and outlawing of thought and communication are the methods used by all oppressive regimes of the past, and this situation is extremely bad for a free society. It is actually an indicator that the free society is coming to an end.
To prevent this, we must disempower the means they are using, and that requires a return to human-ownership of communication tools, and the content and ideas we create with them. This cannot be accomplished on a social media platform, whether it uses blockchain or not. A return to self-publishing and federated sites (web rings, etc) as well as self-publishing in physical medium is necessary if we wish to avert tyranny. I have been doing these things, and encourage others to do so as well – a dark future is 100% assured if we do nothing. We can live in a much better world than this, but we must build it for ourselves.
