[userbinator]

How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? They've also become an essential part of life for much of the population. As much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't think there will be any mass revolutions or other "liberty tree watering" going on in the near future. The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.

[akira2501]

> How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power?

How were they historically? In person, where people gather.

> The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.

Is this simply because technology exists, or because it is monopolized? I think it's the latter, and it certainly projects a path out of this situation.

[iammisc]

The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News.

Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people are fed up.

[caseysoftware]

It's easy to organize as long as you can gather in real life at restaurants, pubs, parks, churches.. oh.

[chess_buster]

Yeah lets meet. oh, I'm on the other side of the atlantic. lets meet in the middle then?