I've recently been pondering a pretty scary theory, yet one that's looking more likely by the day. If my belief is correct, I couldn't stress the urgency of sounding the alarm as quickly as possible and asking everyone to spread the word about this. I know I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but people need to be aware of this possibility.
I'm slowly growing certain that what's been happening to the web recently may be part of a worldwide initiative to undermine the open internet, which has been carefully planned and coordinated by governments worldwide for years. The proof in my view is how the web as a whole came under fire starting last year, in basically every part of the democratic world and for seemingly unrelated reasons. To list only the most well known examples:
And there are even more examples. Much of this is unprecedented in any democracy, yet it all began at once: Year 2017 or late 2016. If more than two years ago you would have proposed most of those things, society would have lit on fire and few would have even imagined the thought... yet today we see proposals worthy of some kind of futuristic dark age! What am I to make of this?
My theory is the following: Governments and corporations want more power and control over society. They know this is in part achieved through ideological control, whereas the internet also allows people to organize. News organizations and other powerful groups began using terrorists / nazis / pedophiles / other groups as scarecrows to convince us that a free internet is dangerous, so that we would approve of their control and censorship (without even thinking of it as censorship to begin with). Now that a good part of society has been scared off, they're slowly trying to copy the same internet model as Communist China and other repressive regimes across the globe.
Do you believe this is indeed what's happening? If so then how can we expose and fight it for what it is? Again I know I'm proposing unproven ideas, but I do feel the possibility of this having been coordinated needs to be discussed.
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I don't think that it's so much an organized international effort as it is the regular cultural controls "catching up".