MirceaKitsune
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A worldwide movement to undermine the open internet?
🕑 Added 2018-02-24 14:50:41 +0000 UTC I've recently been pondering a pretty scary theory, yet one that's looking more likely by the day. If my belief is correct, I couldn't stress the urgency of sounding the alarm as quickly as possible and asking everyone to spread the word about this. I know I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but people need to be aware of this possibility.I'm slowly growing certain that what's been happening to the web recently may be part of a worldwide initiative to undermine the open internet, which has been carefully planned and coordinated by governments worldwide for years. The proof in my view is how the web as a whole came under fire starting last year, in basically every part of the democratic world and for seemingly unrelated reasons. To list only the most well known examples:
- The repeal of ISP privacy protections in the US.
- The repeal of Net Neutrality in the US.
- Censorship machines and link taxes in Europe.
- A total and reckless porn ban in the UK.
- Attacks on encryption in Britain and Australia.
- Fining social media in Germany to censor speech.
- Censorship over sex trafficking (SESTA) in America.
- Censorship proposals over fake news in the EU.
- Mandatory website blocking proposed in Canada.
- VPN / TOR software was banned entirely in Russia.
- Smartphones declared on par with drug addiction.
- Social media censoring more aggressively every day.
And there are even more examples. Much of this is unprecedented in any democracy, yet it all began at once: Year 2017 or late 2016. If more than two years ago you would have proposed most of those things, society would have lit on fire and few would have even imagined the thought... yet today we see proposals worthy of some kind of futuristic dark age! What am I to make of this?
My theory is the following: Governments and corporations want more power and control over society. They know this is in part achieved through ideological control, whereas the internet also allows people to organize. News organizations and other powerful groups began using terrorists / nazis / pedophiles / other groups as scarecrows to convince us that a free internet is dangerous, so that we would approve of their control and censorship (without even thinking of it as censorship to begin with). Now that a good part of society has been scared off, they're slowly trying to copy the same internet model as Communist China and other repressive regimes across the globe.
Do you believe this is indeed what's happening? If so then how can we expose and fight it for what it is? Again I know I'm proposing unproven ideas, but I do feel the possibility of this having been coordinated needs to be discussed.
Comments
nothing
all the recent net neutrality stuff didn’t really change anything
Realms×Myths
It does seem quite plausable. Normally the 4chan army is on top of dealing with the masses who try to shut down the internet… Yet, other than sometimes, if that, being mentioned during the Net Neutrality crisis, I've not heard them being mentioned. Like at all. Not even Anonymous (the group) was mentioned. And those two groups are usually the target for reasons to close off the internet… Sadly, I've no idea how to fight back on a global scale.
