This is driven by fear of journalists:

“look xyz user wrote some racist n-word while himself being white! on your forum! Shut it all down”

It’s journalists holding back society by focusing on retarded shit.

Women

I fear that this forthcoming decade will bring a forthcoming consensus that the Internet is too big to manage by states alone alongside a desire for digital sovereignty and digital border control and that there will be a move toward heavily regulated national Intranets with potentially sub-Intranets for individual states within a country. While the Internet will be restricted to International communication for trade and Government. Large corporations will act as middlemen for any communication you want to do outside of the Intranet like the phone company is for international phone calls. Everything that goes in and out of a countries Internet connections will be monitored and surveilled by national security agencies. It would also make escaping it by VPN or Tor physically impossible.

The like of Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia would love the idea of a state controlled Intranet where anything negative of him is banned and where nothing can come in from outside the country because it would be caught at the digital border. At which point, moderation will move from moderators and AI run by websites to police and intelligence agencies running AI across the whole Intranet. It seems to come back to the desire of celebrities, politicians and other high status individuals to end user-generated content like comments, vlogs and posts to protect themselves from criticism, offence, uncomfortable truths and scrutiny (a.k.a. "hate speech" and "misinformation") and turn news agencies and media outlets into glorified press release outlets for themselves and approved individuals and companies (such as the vaccine manufacturers during Covid-19).

Proponents of the Intranet will argue that it protects kids from harm and that most people only access the likes of Google, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon and they'll still be running country based services on national Intranets so the vast majority of people will see no difference in their web browsing. They'd also argue that countries have the right to protect their digital borders in the same way they protect their physical borders. Oddly enough Satellite television in the 80s in Europe started as a pan-European concept before being segregated into national services behind encryption in the 90s to prevent those in other countries viewing content for other countries. The Internet is going the same way.

The UK Government has a concept that the whole of the Internet is a public place and that every private website is synonymous with a private building that is accessible to the public, including those who require memberships to restrict access. Which is why they're keen on banning pornography and nudity as these things would face criminal charges to anyone who did them in real life. It also relates to the concept that you don't have an expectation of privacy in a public place and the Government believes the same applies online.

There is also a desire for the abolition of anonymity online, where everyone can easily be identified to the authorities or anyone else on request, making it easier to expose whistleblowers, out those speaking uncomfortable truths and ensuring mass self-censorship for fear of being cancelled.

You used to actually have to get banned by a real community manager or something. Now everything is about "safety teams" who have no names, no identities, and you can only issue appeals to an empty void that likely never gets answered. The identities of all employees on these "safety teams" is always 100% anonymous and unknown. Reddit even has many subs where all bans are issued by a 'moderator account' so you can never know who did it or why.

It's really, really important for moderators to have an extreme fear of consequences or else they turn into insane freaks. They have to be able to ban people, especially in judgement call situations that aren't necessarily against rules, but there needs to be a constant threat hanging over their heads to make sure there's mutual respect and everybody can keep posting like grownups.

It's the natural evolution of helicopter parenting and not letting kids toughen up. We insulated the physical world, now with people spending more and more time in digital space, we're doing the same there.

Normies took over the internet. The same people that were all about having the latest and greatest because their friends have it and they want to be cool. The ones that are easily influenced by anything and everything without knowing how to critically think. They took over the internet, completely changed how we saw social media to bring in all the normies for maximum ad revenue, and now we're seeing the destruction as we speak with the government sweet talking these normies into adding backdoors.

Now it's all about safety and security over privacy. Hurt feelings of certain groups is part of that safety and security. Your own privacy is what's given up in order to have that. Reddit and Discord moderators have all your info in order to effectively ban you. When reddit mods demanded more moderation tools before gamergate, this was the reason. To better ban anyone. They used emotion and vague reasoning to talk the admins into giving more tools and the power mods are given more info on users. This is how they're able to ban people with multiple accounts. They've also banned people for things they've done offsite.

Internet 1.0 was the beginning. Internet 2.0 was after the dotcom boom and the rise of forums. Internet 3.0 is the rise of social media and smartphone apps. We're now at Internet 4.0 where you have no more privacy and to speak freely on one site means you are completely eliminated from many other sites.

Decade? Have you not been paying attention? This shit became obvious after around 2007 when the internet became mass accessible to the general public, in large part due to the vastly increased adoption of smartphones and their internet capabilities. And since then, there has been a concerted effort to sanitise the internet and make it as advertiser friendly as possible, which means that spaces need to be made as sterilised and controlled as possible.

It's not the past 10 years. It's closer to the past 20.

I find it actually hilarious they are going full Big Brother when there is a vast increase in bots since 2019. The majority of their info will be just bots regurgitating ads, some Reddit bots trying to state the same shit from years ago, and gamers doing callouts and memes they won’t get.

You're talking about the pre 2007 internet. Before ease of access, and normie invasion. You can thank Apple for putting internet access in everyone's pocket with the iPhone.

Where everything was not so centralized. It took them only a few years to destroy 5000 of the most used websites, and turn them into 5 that they control.

And don't worry if you don't visit that 5th website, anything on the other 4 will be copy pasted to the 5th real soon.

I still remember the hayday of BBS. Man, that was crazy.

Can't use Twitter or anything without a phone number, so they can more permanently ban you.

I signed up just fine. Disposable email address was all I needed.

I get your point otherwise, though.

I have several Twitter accounts created in 2023, all set up using Proton VPN without the need for a phone number. I even used non Proton email addresses without any issues. The only thing to remember is not to use disposable emails as some may require a verification code if logging in from a different VPN server or country.

Ironically one of the most influential books/theories for my redpilling was Manufacturing Consent, and the internet threw a wrench into the gears of the proverbial consent factory, so it was only a matter of time until the lizards took notice and decided to sink their slimy claws into the net to turn it into TV 2.0. Now social media platforms practice AA for legacy media, and the left have been the biggest supporters of returning control of political discourse back into the hands of corporate media gatekeepers.