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You cannot tech your way out of this.

>>Rodeoc+(OP)
No, but it seems like we'll need ways to co-ordinate resistance against the oppressors.

>>Rodeoc+(OP)
Decentralisation is a socio-political solution, not a technical solution. It directly addresses the problem of media ownership and proliferation.

>>zester+h8
It's a limited solution at best. You can't win a tech arms race with the very people who control the core infrastructure, write the laws and run the police. Just ask the pro-Democracy protestors in Hong Kong.

>>janice+xs
You are so right!!!! Everyone is like Elon is the richest man! Bezos is the richest! The richest government scares the NSA, not these poor rich people.

>>janice+xs
That wasn't a tech arms race, that was military & police domination.

We have a heavily contested information space, & so far we are still not an authoritarian state. It seems defeatist I'm extremely to say it's not worth trying to build a better less manipulable less privately controlled information space. It seems obvious that there's still time & patriotic as hell - fully committed to democracy & people, over large institutions & powers.