[Razengan]

Does anyone have any doubt left that we're headed for a future where you need a government ID to use any computing device, and only allowed to do government-approved tasks and view government-approved content?

Not a rhetorical tinfoil question: Does anyone still believe there's some hope for personal freedoms?

[chii]

> Does anyone still believe there's some hope for personal freedoms?

as long as such personal freedoms gives users the ability to skirt the profit motives of companies making these devices, there will always be a force to try restrict it.

The internet, as it has been, is quite an anomaly, but inevitably, power that the people have gets usurped one way or another. It's just a matter of time.

[wartywhoa23]

> The internet, as it has been, is quite an anomaly

It's not an anomaly, it was the data grabbing infrastructure, and now that enough data is vacuumed in from it to train AI, it is now time to turn this dangerously conductive communication network into a control-only one, by all logic of the process and those who funded it all the way.

[Razengan]

What's ironic is that these news are something you'd expect to hear from China or former Soviet countries. But frogs still believe that "putting America in the same sentence as Russia" is stupid