From the privacy point of view the establishment is building a big digital prison. Don’t complain about being kicked off social media. Be glad it happened.
The whole point of leaving bondage is not to wander in the desert but to enter into a promsed land. There’s got to be more to life than providing grist for the giant machine learning mill — and there is.
To make the point unmistakably clear dissidents should build, subscribe or invest in new networks that protect privacy and data ownership. The only way to convincingly demonstrate the benefits of freedom is by competitive contrast.
Tech startups have been creating onion networks, vpns, encryption and blockchain search engines for some years as an alternative to systems everyone knows are deeply flawed. Today’s big silicon may be tomorrow’s legacy old country from whom many will be glad to be free.
The natural allies of rebels are innovators not ideologues. No rebellion is sustainable unless you can make a buck at the same time.
But it won’t happen without hard work.
The genuine new world is not just a negation of the existing one but a competitive improvement on it. It is achieved less by destruction than by construction and by learning what others are forbidden to discover.