- Comment sections getting closed for anonymous replies almost everywhere over the course of the last 15 years
- Undisguised surveillance becoming the new normal
- Confinement of all communication to a handful of platforms
- Snowden's disclosures
- Huge datacenters built by NSA to tap into telecom
- Crackdown on p2p sharing
- Push for The Cloud
- Closure of Lavabit and other independent email providers
- Rabid push for phone-based 2fa
- Ongoing merger and conglomeration of everything into a venture-fund-owned megacorporation invisible only for those who call these obvious practices "conspiracy theories" with religious zeal
- Failure of everything initially claimed to be decentrallized to live up the name, including blockchains, IPFS etc
These and many other similar issues combined don't quite make for an illusion that the govenments are willing to allow us to communicate freely via a greater number of tapping and datamining points than they could possibly manage.
- Undisguised surveillance becoming the new normal
- Confinement of all communication to a handful of platforms
- Snowden's disclosures
- Huge datacenters built by NSA to tap into telecom
- Crackdown on p2p sharing
- Push for The Cloud
- Closure of Lavabit and other independent email providers
- Rabid push for phone-based 2fa
- Ongoing merger and conglomeration of everything into a venture-fund-owned megacorporation invisible only for those who call these obvious practices "conspiracy theories" with religious zeal
- Failure of everything initially claimed to be decentrallized to live up the name, including blockchains, IPFS etc
These and many other similar issues combined don't quite make for an illusion that the govenments are willing to allow us to communicate freely via a greater number of tapping and datamining points than they could possibly manage.
Now burn this heretic!