How should the Dissident Right handle technology?

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Ideally the internet should still exist but the State should restrict it. Seeing as how the United States basically controls the internet, if the US became controlled by the DR, we could easily ban porn and other content effectively worldwide since we hold the "brain" of the internet, more or less.

I don't think the United States has much control over the internet anymore other than the biggest online companies are registered in the United States. They used to have influence over ICANN which manages the whois database and the domain name list but they gave that up in 2016. The only way to have full control of the internet I think is to build a closed off intranet like North Korea which is a separate internal network that cannot connect with the global internet. The China firewall system allows Chinese to bypass the firewall if they use a vpn.

[–]SamiAlHayyidGrand Mufti Imam Sheikh Professor Al Hadji Dr. Sami al-Hayyid 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep. Iran also talks from time to time about building an intranet but never gets around to it. Yet we all know that if the Islamic Republican regime gets overthrown the internet will be a big part of the cause, i.e. because it facilitates organization as it did in the Egyptian uprising and because it assists the proliferation of liberal or other unwanted ideologies and propaganda. Such regimes clearly underestimate how virus-like Westernization actually is, one that can only be resisted through self-imposed isolation, through quarantine, and the internet is easily the biggest medium through which it spreads.