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the internet is fucked. - govs can turn off the internet for everyone whenever they want, surveil entire populations, and attack people’s privacy - few corps control the physical infrastructure and can censor websites, domains, block protocols or entire countries - billionaires and mega corps control social media and manipulate news, politics, brainwash entire populations - AI already producing infinite slop responsible for the majority of all new content on the internet today the internet is so fucked.

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↩ replying to Condor
The west could also go full North Korea. If we get to the stage of worrying if they are killing lora signals we’ve lost anyway. If we’re at the point of worrying about what websites they think they can censor then they’ve lost. Webs of trust are going to be extremely important in the future as @npub12rv5...85vg says a lot of new content is AI slop. Nostr or similar tech will have its day.
↩ replying to Cruz
I think worst. At that frequency they can triangulate every signal and locate all the "problematic" dissidents. The gap between gov't tech and average Joe tech is widening. I was in the development of contactless cards in the 90's. This is the tech people barely understand today. Everything else that has been created in the next thirty years is sci-fi and not public yet.
↩ replying to npub16wf9...pvuv
It depends on how widespread the crackdown is. It would take a very well coordinated global crackdown. Governments can't afford to keep internet shutdown for long, its causes a lot of economic strain. Most money is digital fiat and it doesn't work without internet. You can connect to the blockchain via satellite, but that means relying on blockstream an American company, and the satellites are third party, Samsung etc. I have no idea if it ever came to anything but some researchers were updating blocks over long range radio signals awhile ago. The network is far more resilient than anyone realises.
Yup. Been that for a while and getting rapidly worse. Just been wandering if this new wave of privacy topics is still worth pursuing. If big tech & secret services can profile you with just 3 tweets/purchases/30 sec voicemail etc. they have everyone in the bag anyway, no? There was a β€˜privacy waveβ€˜ in the 1980s among the hacking community (famously called cypherpunks now) and then again in regular intervals until today where it has reached mainstream. And still surveillance on all levels is getting out of hand and protecting against it near impossible. Most important in the current β€˜wave’ is the fight against censorship & internet shutdowns and you are doing an invaluable service to the communities! Thank you πŸ™ #Bitchat View quoted note β†’