The Internet struck a blow for freedom. Then the powers that be struck back. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace.
It’s dead. We might as well face it.
Nearly every large application and website in existence, meaning most of what people use on what we call the internet, constituting an estimated 95 percent of the main portals of information, is now compromised by some power somewhere, making them no longer part of the free world and no longer part of the army of truth.
If that shocks you, you haven’t used Google or Facebook recently. They are both heavily rigged not to get you the information you want but rather to push out to you information that someone somewhere wants you to have. And the situation is getting worse, not better. This is despite impending court challenges that are hoping for a restoration of free speech. If there were a serious threat that this would happen, wouldn’t we see the censored venues improve and not worsen?
The situation is heartbreaking and gives rise to melancholic reflections on the promise and betrayal.
My fear is that hardly anyone remembers a time when the internet held out the highest hope in modern history for the emancipation of humanity from the control of the powerful. I had a model in my own head of a mass migration out of the controlled and regulated physical world and into a digital realm that was so large, so potentially infinite in scope, containing so many nodes and so many content providers, that states would be hopeless in the face of it.
Of course they [controllers] would stick their fat snout into something good like the quote by Rock Scully about the 1960s fake and co-opted how it bums us out.
Not sure if convenient or creepy as I made a comment about wanting to visit Italy then popups for travel plans.
This just in from Tony Renis:
Quando, Quando, Quando