It's time to admit, that we are already living in the post-global internet world.
And there goes the last hope I had for a united humanity. The last argument for a liberal future is dead.
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@LukeAlmighty I honestly can't even comprehend these censorious bastards these days. The internet was probably the biggest driving force of globalism. Everyone is aware that the lefties that are pushing these censorship laws and policies are globalists. They probably orgasm at the thought of one world government. But then they go and nerf the one tool that would have brought them globalism by itself, without them doing anything at all.
I know these people are not particularly smart, but this really is a brain dead move.
@alyx
Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a king in hell?
This is a famous question, that I used to consider ridiculous, but the way modern politicians treat it is outright schizophrenic. While they sing the glory of globalism, our politicians say we cannot leave the EU because "we get more money out of surrounding nations".
That is ridiculous, and when it comes to the internet, this split becomes even more obvious. They NEED to control all of the data on their territory, as if they didn't understand that lack of territory is the entire point.
I just realized this point, when I was thinking of the old Netflix. It had it's library so shattered, that a VPN was a requirement for you to use it in any meaningful way.
Well, from there.... We were already just a single step away from national nets being the only option.
@alyx
Sorry for sperging out.
I just concider the internet to be literally as important as the moon landing, when it comes to pushing the idea, that humanity could move on into the future.
I often joke, that as a child, I was politically a Star-trekkie. But that meant, that humanity could move on from racism and unite nations.
BLM completely disproved the first illusion, and it broke me for a decade. Now, they're about to break the 2nd illusion.
@LukeAlmighty Don't worry, the sperg out was interesting.
To me it's starting to look like we're not getting neither "slave in heaven" nor "king in hell" scenarios, but rather a "slave in hell" one.
For almost a decade I've considered the idea that the Internet should be declared and acknowledged as its own independent state, with a constitution and laws completely separate from any country's laws (though I think an Internet constitution would ultimately end up being inspired by the US Constitution). Of course, I don't really know how it could be put into practice, and I don't know if it could actually work. But still, I feel like the global Internet is such an unique creation, that for it to continue allowing international interactions, this would be the only way to achieve that.
But it seems that this dream will likely end soon enough. We'll gonna end up with a couple of networks instead. The Americas (north and south continents) will likely be one network. EU and a few other European countries will be another. The Islamic world will likely separate too. China is already its own thing. Russia will follow suit too. And there are a few more countries, and Africa, that I don't know for sure what will happen to them, but they'll likely stick with America for a while longer.