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Kumo Varanasi
Is the Internet Making Freedom Impossible?
Nearly your entire life is controlled by the tech oligarchs. Everything we read, watch, buy, and eat is provided by them. And that's for those of us that don't also work for them.

They in turn are bullied by massively armed governments willing to steal or harm anyone that doesn't pay protection money.

We are surrounded by exploiters that also happen to own the network. And our best and brightest built it for them.

I'm really looking forward to ai doing the same thing to them.
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ConanVsCrom
But on the brightside we are connected globally. Humanity is making huge strides with science and medicine. Hope shines brightest in the dark guys!
(Plus we have LB, BTC and access to premium chronic)
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defnote
this bigga
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Psychonauts
Duality at its finest
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Bigbum
How many of the poor does humanity include ? Doubt they care too much about the cutting edge science
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SmorganWeedman
Its only a matter of time before we are all bar-coded, neatly organised and uploaded to the cloud and sooner the better i say.
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Kumo Varanasi
Ok but there's clouds and there's clouds. I don't mind a harp or 2 but then I got a pipe in some of the good shit from downstairs.
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senorbean
where do i sign?
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Raspire
Huh? You wrote this on an anonymous board that uses bitcoin to pay for goods. iv never felt more free than today. Remote working enables me to work from anyway and do almost Anything that isn’t physical labour

All your communication is encrypted so no one can hijack the signal and read your messages. Same with audio and video,

Technology gives us freedom
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emmy
freedom always takes a fight i guess it's with configuration now ;)
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Zeggybear
The only true freedom would be when the soul leaves this disposable shield, after all no one is truly free from the duties of this world, where you can of course opt out whenever you like.

The AI would only make their(big tech,gov,etc) job easy to control this world only to be control by AI later down the line like the tech was suppose to do for others.
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Gratesmanes
I think it's impossible already , i think free internet was from the 80s towards 2000's post that it changed , we said nothing , we like the conveniences and now we cry all our info is everywhere , what's done is done and now we have to live with the consequences to be honest , unless a new Network internet type comes along that we can access with 0 censorship( we have TOR , but Onion Links not sustainable).
Right now even having a normal social media account is a hinderance , the world is so brainwashed that you cannot have your own opinion, 50 dumbasses will jump on your comments to convince you to think like them.
We need a time travel machine , i miss Yahoo messenger , MIRC , msn ,Yahoo news .
The only good thing is now we are all connected so now it's time for all of us to be informed to be able to filter out the bullshit.
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gypsum_fantastic
Depends how you define freedom.

We are by nature communal and social creatures.

We are constrained by the freedoms of others.

The illusion of hyper individualism and unrestrained libertarianism tells us that we can have unfettered personal freedom, economic freedom, even moral freedom.

But we can't and never could.

It's setting up a "prisoners dilemma" where the incentive is always to screw the other person over for your own freedoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
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Special1
Good piece kumo
If the sheep woke up all the parasite world leaders would be fucked , I’m hoping the internet in the end will help expose the darkness we live under & help the 2million + children who go missing every year to enslavement & blood harvesting .
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Bigbum
We work for society, society doesn’t work for you. Unless you are a shareholder of course;)
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hell bent for pleather
id be happy just to find the url
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tescrow
They say we have freedom but look what happen to Tate
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gypsum_fantastic
A guy who allegedly took away the freedoms of his victims and trafficked them?
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Sidd3rz
Victims?? 🤯
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gypsum_fantastic
Yup. The women who he allegedly groomed and coerced and bullied.
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Sidd3rz
ah right, sorry I missed the 'allegedly' 🤪
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gypsum_fantastic
If he did. and I suspect he did and am awaiting confirmation of this, then I am happy for him to have his freedom removed.
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1620
depends on which layer
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by  1313
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by  24601
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by  patience
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by  BrunoBaum
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