20 years ago, I believed the expression "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it". It's pretty clear we're far beyond technical solutions to political problems, now: whatever the internet might have been when it started out, it isn't any more - censorship is just too popular.
Tor still exists. Once ordinary porn can only be found on Tor, Tor will become a lot more popular and everyone will be able to access all kinds of censored things (from deepfake nudes, to pirated movies, to drug marketplaces, to AI that can tell you how to make a bomb). Of course, they'll just make Tor illegal then.
good, not only is it malware/spyware, the chinese government can shape the beliefs and behaviors of > 100,000,000 americans at the flip of a switch. albeit users are idiots for giving their attention in the first place. and because capitalism = god, will probably end up selling to the saudis and/or elon co.
good, not only is it malware/spyware, the chinese government can shape the beliefs and behaviors of > 100,000,000 americans at the flip of a switch. albeit users are idiots for giving their attention in the first place. and because capitalism = god, will probably end up selling to the saudis.
yes, facebook can/does propagandize the populations of other countries, though perhaps slightly less nefariously than if an authoritarian/totalitarian government was at the helm. fb is banned in china so there is that. interesting times. all hail king zuck in his fbverse.
same at a big pharma company. I'm guessing the ruling class either deliberately colluded or it was simply in their ruthless capitalist nature to quickly take power back from workers after we had a brief taste of a slightly better life during the "great resignation"
No.. 16% had a negative response, 28% had ~no response, and 55% had a positive response. I think people would be much more hesitant to try psychedelics for their mental issues if you told them it was a coin toss whether it would help or not -- and was an unlucky game of Russian Roulette from making their mental problems worse.
People take prescribed drugs for less than a 25% chance that it helps and a Russian roulette of side effects. Does sexual dysfunction improve depression?
that video of donald sucking elon's toes probably counts.