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If I’m wearing my it’s-gonna-get-like-real-bad-bad hat (I am), I’m left to think about distributed storage among brave people who know how to hide shit. More like part of an undernet of things we need to build and maintain.
But the risk in an authoritarian environment would be great.
This is a good point. I was also thinking that alternatives to the internet itself might become more important. We need more meshnets.
Yggdrasil? Meshtastic? IPFS? Briar? All sound pretty cool, not sure if we have a community for those things yet.
You know, Trump only governs US, not the whole fucken globe.
True. But most of the platforms used by people around the world to communicate (social media, instant messaging, etc) are owned by US companies. So our shitbag of an upcoming President could have a global impact in this regard.
That being said, I don't find myself particularly worried about this specific thing. Hopefully I don't eat my words.
Sure, yup. But also, imagine if Germany in 1933 was an active worldwide superpower with 128 military bases in 55 foreign countries, with an annual military budget higher than the national GDPs of 167 of the 188 countries in the world.