When your ability to access the internet is tied to a QR code that measures your social credit score, vax status and tracks your purchasing and social media histories, this community will no longer exist.
What keeps that from happening is the elites know the pie is much bigger in western countries that have an illusion of freedom.
There is very little room at the top in China and even less as freedom gets squeezed harder an harder and absolute isolation is increased like in North Korea.
If the west were to give up their illusion of freedom it would be the result of a faction war amongst the elites. Most of them may be power hungry and amoral but, so far, I haven't seen evidence they are ideologically driven. That is what they use to manipulate the masses.
The Pirate Bay still exists. I have faith that a community like this will exist forever, regardless of what bullshit goes on in politics.
When your ability to access the internet is tied to a QR code that measures your social credit score, vax status and tracks your purchasing and social media histories, this community will no longer exist.
That is actually the point of all this. A digital identity that can be used to monitor and regulate everyone's activity.
Yup, government can't do it themselves so they're using corps to do it. Cyber authoritarianism by proxy is the end goal.
What keeps that from happening is the elites know the pie is much bigger in western countries that have an illusion of freedom.
There is very little room at the top in China and even less as freedom gets squeezed harder an harder and absolute isolation is increased like in North Korea.
If the west were to give up their illusion of freedom it would be the result of a faction war amongst the elites. Most of them may be power hungry and amoral but, so far, I haven't seen evidence they are ideologically driven. That is what they use to manipulate the masses.
Then we shall form a secret society where we meet in dingy basements and communicate long distance via pigeon.
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