Here's a question you should be asking yourself:
What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like?
Given what we've seen so far, it isn't likely that we're going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, paramilitaries, ideologies, ubiquitous/vicious secret police, relentless propaganda, etc...
That model died when globalization and the Internet hollowed out the nation-state.
Here are some notes tracking the arrival of what I’m calling the Long Night -- a world run by oppressive social networks that ruthlessly narrow public speech and behavior.
Covered topics: Twitter's bubble maximizer. Enforcing limits to free speech in NYC. Doxing protesters in Russia.
I did a long interview with Jack Murphy and Ian Scotto for SOFRep Radio earlier this week (the first 45 m or so prominently features my staccato/machine/Boydian gun style of thinking/speaking).
Here's an interesting though experiment.
The EU's new data privacy law is just about to come into effect (May 25th).
That law makes it very hard for Facebook and other services to collect data on individuals because it has a very high privacy standard.
That's a problem for Facebook and many other Internet companies.
Facebook, and other tech companies, set up a fake International Head Quarters in Ireland to avoid paying US taxes.
The EU's new data privacy law is just about to come into effect (May 25th).
That law makes it very hard for Facebook and other services to collect data on individuals. Essentially, it sets a very high standard for privacy.
That's a problem for Facebook and many other Internet companies.
Facebook, and other tech companies, set up a fake International Head Quarters in Ireland to avoid paying US taxes.
How does the open source moral network -- the combo of the #resistance, #metoo and #neveragain -- turn lists of violators into something people can easily digest and act upon?
An online system that can work at scale?
I just saw something published on Twitter that moves this closer to reality.
Last month's Global Guerrillas report used a combination of:
to figure out how we can adapt to the challenges we face without the radical simplification of societal collapse.
When it comes to politics, it should be of no surprise to anyone that we're in uncharted, nonlinear territory now.
Weaponized social networks have seized control of the political process from the traditional political parties and their media gatekeepers. They are in charge now and, more importantly, they are rapidly evolving. Getting more powerful with each passing day.