The question is whether there is enough ambient knowledge throughout the general citizenry to defeat the censorship, and I would argue the answer is yes. Everyb

The question is whether there is enough ambient knowledge throughout the general citizenry to defeat the censorship, and I would argue the answer is yes. Everybody and their mother has a cell phone and bandwidth is cheap: If Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YT all censored in the same way, the immediate response would be for a ton of forums, email lists, Telegram groups, etc. to pop up. All the censorship would do is decentralize the spread of both information and misinformation, and that's not in anybody's interest. You can't wage an information war in the dark. Much like when communications go down and the amateur radio enthusiasts come out. Or how when the roads are impassable in the UP by car, you'll see people out on snowmobiles. There are enough people with reserve tech skills that I genuinely don't think it would matter if the big platforms attempted to suppress all information. What's far more likely is that things are going to be selectively suppressed in a way that's invisible to the average person in order to control their feelings and support for whatever is occurring.