Privacy, parallel society, Plumbing, mechanics, free energy, hidden history, Robert Sepher type stuff, building, basically a Noah's arc of knowledge. Poisonous plants . Health info and cures. Fitness, nutrition. Computer stuff, how to use servers and security. Pilates, martial arts, meditation, shtf, how to make friends, Robert Greene, anything.
Videos, pdfs, audiobooks. Old quality 4 Chan/8chan stuff
There is probably a bunch of stuff on telegram too so I have to install that.
Any recs an links appreciated especially if they are toreents of mega uploads so I dont have to download individual files. I just bought a large external drive so it is time to do this.
Also which vpn is good for this? I use windscribe for the large amounts of free downloads.
Saw that Europe is going dark this winter so they will probably need this info collected together asap.
Personally, I think that "they", both governments and corporations, find it far more useful to keep the current trajectory of dumbing down the internet both by pushing idiocy as trendy and by scraping and removing old, good information.
Further, along with bots that both distract discussions and push false narratives and quack information, they lead people astray from useful knowledge into "rabbit holes" of pointless "research" of listening to yet more narrative pushing by bots and other gullible saps (see Qanon, what they turned 'Pizzagate' into, Occupy movements, flat earth, etc.)
Evidence of this is shown in this very forum, reddit, and others. In less than a decade, the meaning of research has been removed from the minds of the younger users here (and some older ones as well).
In the Web 1.0 days and into the golden years of reddit, information was posted with multiple sources and citations of primary documents and books or articles available IRL and a greater number of people bothered to actually learn things or verify claims analytically.
Now, "research" is used by people to describe simply watching random people on YouTube make random claims, or searching blogs and random websites with the most absurd alleged connections (someone has the same last name, must be the same person! They use a super common geometric shape in a background that they probably had a freelancer create for their business! Etc.) and claims are "verified" mostly by whichever are most repeated or by whichever confirm their own misconceptions about reality. The concept of seeking primary sources and verifying claims outside of easily manipulated websites seems foreign to many.
This is not by accident.
Without the internet, certain interests would lose their most powerful tool of control and misdirection, and people would turn to concrete knowledge rather than ephemeral falsely generated propaganda.
It is the dream of any authoritarian regime, no need to ban information or burn books or physically erase history, they can edit information on the fly.