I absolutely agree, but I don't think it's too much to say that digital freedom and more important access to the internet and the various tools it offers played a starring roll in the Arab Spring.
MHSJenkins
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Thank you for that insightful response. I appreciate you taking the time.
The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.
How would you suggest using the internet without search engines, and can that be accomplished in a way that is accessible to the average person?
Everything is going according to plan.
Stay tuned, as I have thoughts and ideas on that in an upcoming article.
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"When a hero comes along . . ."
It's not a recent thing but there was a pretty serious resurgence of it around waitforit the turn of the millennia back in 1999/2000, with a followup in 2012 when we all thought the Mayan calendar was going to run out for some reason. My observation is that these events had a deeper impact on world thinking than I realized at the time.
As someone who's been recycling since the early 1980s, the whole thing is heartbreaking.
It's really difficult on both an intellectual and an emotional level to absorb the fact that most of the information given to me about recycling has been false for the sum total of my 45 years on this planet.
As with our dentention centers on the US/Mexico border, we'll only see select portions of this after they've "addressed the issues" innate to putting people in holding facilities.
It's a real challenge in large portions of the world. So many national governments are perfectly happy with a corporatized, compartmentalized internet--and willing to pass legislation to keep it that way.