How should the Dissident Right handle technology?

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[–]YJaewedwqewqClerical Fascist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In my opinion a nuanced middle ground is required. Some technology is a Pandora's box that can't really be ignored or done away with, such as computers/the internet or automobiles. That being said, many outwardly harmful technologies must be restricted or banned. Things that make degeneracy like drug use or other addictions easy must be restrained. 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.

However, certain technologies such as 3D printing (especially large-scale stuff) can be especially powerful as a tool to provide cheaper and faster housing and buildings/components in general (of course with limitations) making these things much more accessible to even the poorest families and significantly increasing the speed at which things are built. Of course these things may be partially mitigated by returnign to more traditional forms of architecture, but even with this fact, components or shapes used in these buildings (or even theri designs as a whole) could be minimized and standardized to make them very cheap regardless. This is a more moot point in regards to things like government buildings or other large, utilitarian structures such as warehouses or factories that have looked relatively similar since their inception (big blocks with relevant facilities for storage, exhaust, power generation, etc.).

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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.