There’s really this general societal trend demanding to feel more safe. And it’s detrimental to freedom. Then we have blind activism, people who deliberately exploit this to push for their surveillance state fetish, people who entirely decoupled from reality and they’d like fascism now. We’ve also not started to tackle all these bubbles on social media and all the misinformation out there. And then we’re bound to get more fake stuff with AI. Idk other countries ban porn these days or have the payment providers do it for them. Others experiment with a clean internet and age restriction in a way that causes quite some collateral damage and their independent internet forums are forced to close. I think we’re somewhat bound to be headed in the same direction.
But glad to see how we’re still very free. I don’t think we should resign, we need to address this. And btw, I think I spot some of the same dynamics here on the Threadiverse. We’re close enough to social media so we have the some of the same culture war here. And we don’t just use it to communicate freely, but there’s a good amount of people pushing their agenda, banning each other because they’re supposed zionists or the opposite of it, or pro or conta Artificial Intelligence and people urge people to take some extreme positions, so these bubbles don’t really align with internet freedom or empower people or guide them in any positive direction. It’s a tough nut to crack. But I think we’re all involved in this trend. It’s not just imposed on us from above. But that also means we can shape it. (And at least in theory that’s also how politics should work.)
There’s really this general societal trend demanding to feel more safe. And it’s detrimental to freedom. Then we have blind activism, people who deliberately exploit this to push for their surveillance state fetish, people who entirely decoupled from reality and they’d like fascism now. We’ve also not started to tackle all these bubbles on social media and all the misinformation out there. And then we’re bound to get more fake stuff with AI. Idk other countries ban porn these days or have the payment providers do it for them. Others experiment with a clean internet and age restriction in a way that causes quite some collateral damage and their independent internet forums are forced to close. I think we’re somewhat bound to be headed in the same direction.
But glad to see how we’re still very free. I don’t think we should resign, we need to address this. And btw, I think I spot some of the same dynamics here on the Threadiverse. We’re close enough to social media so we have the some of the same culture war here. And we don’t just use it to communicate freely, but there’s a good amount of people pushing their agenda, banning each other because they’re supposed zionists or the opposite of it, or pro or conta Artificial Intelligence and people urge people to take some extreme positions, so these bubbles don’t really align with internet freedom or empower people or guide them in any positive direction. It’s a tough nut to crack. But I think we’re all involved in this trend. It’s not just imposed on us from above. But that also means we can shape it. (And at least in theory that’s also how politics should work.)