The Open Web is Dying

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[–]The_Lear_Bluce_Ree 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The fact of the matter is that your standard person doesn't give a flying shit about privacy or a censored web. User data is a bigger industry than oil now, they don't care. Snowden tells everyone about PRISM and the surveillance state, doesn't even hit their radar (there was a crazy poll that stated something like 80% of America didn't know who he was).

If they can't see it or aren't told to be outraged by the major news groups, they don't care. Youtube is literally censoring wrong think and no one would ever even be bothered to go to an alternative URL to watch a video from someone they like.

We kind of deserve our fate in sad way. The 2% that do care don't matter because they're only 2% (it's probably much smaller than that)

[–]blowininthewind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

well, 'genius is 99 percent of toil + 1 percent of talent, but the 1 percent is irreplaceable.'

[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They havent read my books, and site yet: https://leanpub.com/thebookoflongformremixmemes https://leanpub.com/mentalselfdefense https://leanpub.com/expandeddefinitions https://leanpub.com/fourparables

I also made some drawings, ugly drawings, but it can be explained this way in about 5 minutes: https://jmichaelhudson.net/4-important-drawings/

People do not realize the people trying to help them are under attack, and so they think there is nothing they can do, and without a bread crumb trail out of the thought cage, they will never find the people trying to help them. Meanwhile so few people who are not corrupt earn enough money to have any left over to do something like buy one of my books that the entire alternative culture is hamgstrung. And those with enough money to donate are afraid to because they might be stalked like I am.

Situation is grim, but we are also at a point where even a few connections between people with some amount of power and some powerless people with some good ideas, could still do something.

But dang the internet seems broken, in that there are two classes, forever separated, with a literal army of shiills in between causing all manner of chaos so that this doesn't happen, and so the people looking for solutions can't find those who are offering them.

[–]sad_campaign 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If this pandemic has shown me anything it is that most people suck at thinking for themselves.

[–]useless_aether 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

the usual suspects are pushing this, china, the un, the bill and melinda gates foundation, the clinton foundation, cuomo..

but it must originate from the technocratic trilateral commission.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The most practical approach is a decentralized system that protects the web, but I fear that we have moved well beyond the practicality of a change like that.

That fact is that a very large percentage of society won’t even understand what is happening, and frankly, won’t care, at least until they find themselves wondering why they can’t find information on the web, or why they are wearing a digital golden star.

Do you guys agree? It's pretty dark. I think if 15% of society chooses a freedom and privacy path, that it eventually ripples enough to matter. There's so many federated and decentralized projects right now, that I can't even keep track. I think we're still all up in this battle and there is hope.

[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is why I am writing, people do not see it as an infiltration of not just the internet but of their mind and life, their possibilities.

And they do not understand how easy it is to control and limit someone if powerful people know everything about you.

That is why I am writing so much about it at my site and in my books: https://leanpub.com/thebookoflongformremixmemes https://leanpub.com/mentalselfdefense https://leanpub.com/expandeddefinitions https://leanpub.com/fourparables

What is also happening is that the people most capable of explaining why these tech and privacy changes are so dangerous and not worth the incremental convenience benefit, are excluded from "mainstream" debate. And also there are a ton of placeholding fake intellectuals still using gmail like Sarah Kinzior, and they are the only people who are allowed to get onto NPR.

A big key to it is that people have not seen how this can result in real world stalking, real world attacking of your life, which I have sadly been on the front lines experiencing for a long time now. I was stalked on the way home yesterday, it is very real. You do not have to be famous to be stalked, they are trying to make it so that you never get famous, and make you homeless.

And as yet, of the hundreds of journalists and "opinion leaders" I have contacted trying to share my experiences, none respond. Not a one.

Which is to say, everyone admits there is a vast surveilance net, but no one is admitting that they will use this to integrate undercover police into every aspect of society, covertly, and when anyone does see evidence of this, they are immediately discounted as a nutjub.

Until it is recognized that people like myself are targeted for long term programs of repression, you are missing most of the iceberg of this issue, and being as gullible as Gomer Pyle.

[–]sad_campaign 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that VPNs, P2P torrents and the TorNetwork will always have its place in society. The unfortunate thing is that most people do not even know that these tools even exist and most that do know of their existence think that only ID thieves, drug dealers, and pedophiles use them.

[–]useless_aether 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

we can't ignore the fact that this started as a darpa project. with who knows what kind of aims.

[–]Drewski[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think a majority of people will never escape the walled garden, but for some percentage the censorship and manipulation will become so unbearable that they will jump ship to whatever open alternatives are out there. This is where we need to come in to help, by creating and supporting platforms that are free, open, and easy to use. I agree, there is still hope.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

E.g. Lbry. Real YouTube content creators are mirroring their stuff to there and are feeling it. That's my impression from limited research.