First, consolidate the industries, so that we only have to deal with a few rather than many: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and a few others. Have them buy up any and all innovative competitors and either rope them into their operations or shut them down completely.
Second, erect high regulations in the industry to make sure that these main players are permanent and not challenged anymore by punks in a garage somewhere.
Third, embed regime-sympathetic managers and investors at these institutions and gradually turn them from serving the public to serving the regime.
I remember a friend complaining about the crappy internet in his area. I asked him why he didn't switch to another provider, and he told me that Comcast was the only game in town because regulations prevented other providers from offering their services.
So it always warms my heart when I see an offbeat story about someone figuring out a way around that and also hooking their friends up.
They don't even need "regulations" per se. The byzantine policies of large companies are burdensome enough for small players to navigate.
If you wanted to, say, create an alternative to CloudFlare you're going to have to place servers in ISP datacenters, and there's going to be policies around that, and those policies are (probably) going to be a huge pain in the ass. And if they make them complicated enough said company may just give up, and now there's no more alternative to CloudFlare.
It was fun while it lasted. They want control, and they've got it. Years of destroying any alternatives have led to the internet being five corporate controlled websites. And don't worry if you're on the sixth one, it'll be riddled with what's on the other five in a matter of hours.
What's funny is the foundations of for-profit Internetworking was exactly this, after it stopped being an academic/military project. There was Apple with a very early visual BBS service, The Microsoft Network, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL. The net for computer illiterates started out envisioned as contained safe spaces long before the world wide web and search engines became user-friendly and took over.
Maybe it's better for everyone if we go back to that model - but then also have a completely uncensored decentralized network with the good stuff for the rest of us. If we can't stop normies from going online through their smartphones, at least keep them locked up in their padded echo chambers managed by AI where they can do as little harm as possible.
Segregating us from the normies is exactly what they want. They go after alt-tech because of the remote chance that an alt platform will start attracting normies, it's not a bunch of truth-obsessed spergs speaking amongst themselves that the regime is afraid of. It's why they were so aggressive in getting Parler removed from the Apple and Google app stores under false pretenses once it became the most downloaded app at the time, the normies escaping the enclosure terrified them.
Remember the Candid fiasco? The whole point was for an astroturfed "startup" to train an AI to recognize anti-SJW speech, and then shadowban it so you could shout into the wind while no normies ever hear it. They don't want us talking to normies, because normies are highly malleable. Just look at what a pain in the ass it became for them when skepticism of mainstream medicine frustrated their attempts to force the vax, or when soccer moms finally found out via libsoftiktok that what the MSM had branded as "far-right conspiracy theories" were completely true.
The regime also gets their panties in a knot over based memes that manage to break into the mainstream, look at Pepe for instance which they first tried to brand as a "neo-nazi dogwhistle" and then when that failed they tried to co-opt it. Or how enraged they get whenever Alex Jones goes on Joe Rogan.
They also sold the internet early on as like this crazy dangerous place. "Keep kids safe on the internet" and the like. I don't remember ever being unsafe. Seems like my age-peers being teens at the time had too much natural skepticism or whatever to fall for everything they scare with now. Some tranny groomer would have been met with, "That sounds gay. Shut up you retarded faggot!"
Follow some people that age now, they are all way too trusting as if everything was so safe in the Apple app store they grew up in they don't know how to adapt. I've seen it with my nephew and cousin both. Their friends all share account info all the time like it's normal. When they start getting on cesspools like Discord and the like it's basically free scam targets. They are way old enough to have learned discretion, but when your entire interaction with this stuff prior was the safe harbor of the Apple App Store, how are you supposed to?
Eventually we'll see splinternets where every country has its own Intranet, regulated and licensed by the Government and sold to you as both digital sovereignty and protecting digital borders through monitoring and survelliance "for your own safety". While Internet access is restricted to the Government and companies for international trade and as a middle man for the public if they wish to communicate to someone outside of the country or purchase an item for import via said company Intranet portal.
We've also got the desire to abolish anonymity, likely through both Government photo ID and live (ongoing) facial recognition. The likelihood of VPN's, Tor and proxies being made illegal. And to "protect the children", proposals to ban technology for under 16's.
The powergrab to splinter off the Internet into manageable country wide chunks by states is beginning. We're a long way away from what the Internet used to be.
You sound not only pozzed, but like you're clearly a newfag to the internet that doesn't even understand what was lost because all they've ever experienced was a sanitised little hug box.
There were three steps in this process.
First, consolidate the industries, so that we only have to deal with a few rather than many: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and a few others. Have them buy up any and all innovative competitors and either rope them into their operations or shut them down completely.
Second, erect high regulations in the industry to make sure that these main players are permanent and not challenged anymore by punks in a garage somewhere.
Third, embed regime-sympathetic managers and investors at these institutions and gradually turn them from serving the public to serving the regime.
This is why we should support kiwifarms and gab
I remember a friend complaining about the crappy internet in his area. I asked him why he didn't switch to another provider, and he told me that Comcast was the only game in town because regulations prevented other providers from offering their services.
So it always warms my heart when I see an offbeat story about someone figuring out a way around that and also hooking their friends up.
They don't even need "regulations" per se. The byzantine policies of large companies are burdensome enough for small players to navigate.
If you wanted to, say, create an alternative to CloudFlare you're going to have to place servers in ISP datacenters, and there's going to be policies around that, and those policies are (probably) going to be a huge pain in the ass. And if they make them complicated enough said company may just give up, and now there's no more alternative to CloudFlare.
It was fun while it lasted. They want control, and they've got it. Years of destroying any alternatives have led to the internet being five corporate controlled websites. And don't worry if you're on the sixth one, it'll be riddled with what's on the other five in a matter of hours.
What's funny is the foundations of for-profit Internetworking was exactly this, after it stopped being an academic/military project. There was Apple with a very early visual BBS service, The Microsoft Network, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL. The net for computer illiterates started out envisioned as contained safe spaces long before the world wide web and search engines became user-friendly and took over.
Maybe it's better for everyone if we go back to that model - but then also have a completely uncensored decentralized network with the good stuff for the rest of us. If we can't stop normies from going online through their smartphones, at least keep them locked up in their padded echo chambers managed by AI where they can do as little harm as possible.
Segregating us from the normies is exactly what they want. They go after alt-tech because of the remote chance that an alt platform will start attracting normies, it's not a bunch of truth-obsessed spergs speaking amongst themselves that the regime is afraid of. It's why they were so aggressive in getting Parler removed from the Apple and Google app stores under false pretenses once it became the most downloaded app at the time, the normies escaping the enclosure terrified them.
Remember the Candid fiasco? The whole point was for an astroturfed "startup" to train an AI to recognize anti-SJW speech, and then shadowban it so you could shout into the wind while no normies ever hear it. They don't want us talking to normies, because normies are highly malleable. Just look at what a pain in the ass it became for them when skepticism of mainstream medicine frustrated their attempts to force the vax, or when soccer moms finally found out via libsoftiktok that what the MSM had branded as "far-right conspiracy theories" were completely true.
The regime also gets their panties in a knot over based memes that manage to break into the mainstream, look at Pepe for instance which they first tried to brand as a "neo-nazi dogwhistle" and then when that failed they tried to co-opt it. Or how enraged they get whenever Alex Jones goes on Joe Rogan.
They also sold the internet early on as like this crazy dangerous place. "Keep kids safe on the internet" and the like. I don't remember ever being unsafe. Seems like my age-peers being teens at the time had too much natural skepticism or whatever to fall for everything they scare with now. Some tranny groomer would have been met with, "That sounds gay. Shut up you retarded faggot!"
Follow some people that age now, they are all way too trusting as if everything was so safe in the Apple app store they grew up in they don't know how to adapt. I've seen it with my nephew and cousin both. Their friends all share account info all the time like it's normal. When they start getting on cesspools like Discord and the like it's basically free scam targets. They are way old enough to have learned discretion, but when your entire interaction with this stuff prior was the safe harbor of the Apple App Store, how are you supposed to?
It's not very fun to watch it happen to AI right now.
Eventually we'll see splinternets where every country has its own Intranet, regulated and licensed by the Government and sold to you as both digital sovereignty and protecting digital borders through monitoring and survelliance "for your own safety". While Internet access is restricted to the Government and companies for international trade and as a middle man for the public if they wish to communicate to someone outside of the country or purchase an item for import via said company Intranet portal.
We've also got the desire to abolish anonymity, likely through both Government photo ID and live (ongoing) facial recognition. The likelihood of VPN's, Tor and proxies being made illegal. And to "protect the children", proposals to ban technology for under 16's.
The powergrab to splinter off the Internet into manageable country wide chunks by states is beginning. We're a long way away from what the Internet used to be.
I remember having the conversation and being one of the last people in my school to use google.
Why would anyone want to return to the "fun" times when islamists and stormfags could freely spread their lies
because then we we could send you directly to the goatse man. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/187/373/goatse_pumpkin.jpg
You sound not only pozzed, but like you're clearly a newfag to the internet that doesn't even understand what was lost because all they've ever experienced was a sanitised little hug box.