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One of my greatest dreads is that at least for this era of humanity’s evolution the National censored/moderated strategy is the correct one. It may be that free
by DoneWithAllThat 4y ago
One of my greatest dreads is that at least for this era of humanity’s evolution the National censored/moderated strategy is the correct one. It may be that free speech for a nation was the winning play before the Information Age (and may be again in the future) but isn’t now. I don’t necessarily believe this, but it’s increasingly hard to build compelling arguments against it in the face of mounting evidence.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI'm almost sure this is the case. Countries that don't lock things down are gonna get badly disrupted (not in the "good" tech-company sense) by other states that do, and take advantage of the others' openness. And not just states, but stronger-than-many-states corporations. I expect democracies to be particularly vulnerable. I think a wide-open global Internet in anything like its current form will turn out to be one of those things that seems amazing and mostly-great when you look at it from an individual perspective but has very bad consequences at a population scale, far outweighing any benefit. Again, especially for democracies—we thought it would liberalize oppressive states, but I think we got that tragically wrong, and it may in fact be the instrument that unleashes the "chaos" and painful disorder that critics of democracy and liberalism have always predicted.
- JTbane 4y agoMy greatest fear is the surveillance state, to be honest. The dragnet revelations mean that privacy really doesn't exist anymore, and police are always chomping at the bit to get more access to anything electronic.