I fully agree. The internet is a pandora's box and Tim has opened it (Berners-Lee not timsk).
Once you were a lone ... err ... 'induhvidual' is the least offensive word I can think of, and if you went to your local village pub and spouted ideas that were out of the usual then 10 or 20 people would call you an idiot and you would shut up. So 200 induhviduals in 200 pubs across the country with 'unusual' ideas were silenced by 'sensible' folk. Now those 'unique' induhviduals have their own virtual pub where they can get drunk and share the same theories with 20 other like minded people and tell each other how rational they are. And none of them will drink at any of the other virtual pubs.
This lockdown has been an eyeopener for me personally and I am reflecting on the reasons for my own induhvidual thoughts.
But the internet is such a wonderful thing, so wonderful that they need to setup institutions and spend billions censoring it, just in case anyone has ideas above or below his or her, or its station, or ideas that may differ from the BBC.
No, no, no, we really must not be examining the past before it has been re-written, re-written to rub out the misdeeds of people before the internet became a 'thing'. The history that isn't written into history books, that can't be physically picked up, read and burned, but the history that lives in the real lives of people, hitherto hidden until youtube appeared, now laid bare for all to see and make decisions about.
God forbid anyone should discover history and what people have been quietly doing to misdirect us into believing anything that is told to us. We must remove all traces from the popular platforms where most people get their information, forcing everyone with an interest onto other popular uncensored platforms, govts always one step behind.
Censorship re-enforces the alt news and anecdotes, not diminishes them, censorship never worked in the past and it won't work in the present and the future. There is always a whistleblower out there somewhere.
The old analogy of the pub is still alive and well, the difference now is that instead of odds of 200:1, the odds are now evens and no-one can say whether the likes of the BBC are true or the alt news and anecdotes are true, as the odds of the BBC being fake are as equal as the alternatives being fake.
What a great leveller the internet has become, and govts are so scared of it, they have to use their full might, including the military to inject their own disinformation and misdirection to try and put people off discovering what the truth may actually be.
Except it doesn't work (well it works in the beginning, but trust is eroded over time as more and more people become red-pilled). The length of time governments hold out is a key factor as we saw with Brexit, if people hold their nerve, they will gain victories.
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