We all know that the internet is a product of US military agencies. Yet, the default idea is that the internet means (more or less) free flow of information and a good thing in general.
But is that so? Could it be that the internet was just another con from the get go? Just a bit longer one than the rest of them. After all, we've seen it before.
For example, smartphones. At the start it was all fun and games. Then it got a bit more serious, but still nice and cool. And now it has turned into opressive slave device, with constant suveillance, that is almost compulsory to have and quite hard to live without.
Is the internet any different? It started as this highway of information, rainbows and unicorns and all that. But now it gets more and more censored, more and more oppressive with each passing day. If current trend continues, at the end it will be nothing more than totally controlled tool of oppression. Could it be that that was its design from the very beginning?
No. The originators did not have enough understanding to have full foresight on where it would head. No one in the elite or the governments had any clue about the capabilities of the full system we have today.
The internet has become a tool of control and manipulation. You can argue it wasnt intended to become at origination, but at what point did the intention become control? (How long after inception?)
Once the decision is made to control the internet, actual control is an incremental process that may take 10-20 years.
2014 is when they decided us plebs can't be trusted to vote properly.
The internet hasn't changed. How it's used by the media and government has. If people weren't morons, they would notice the propaganda and think for themselves. But they are and they don't.
I don't know how you can honestly argue that the 'internet hasn't changed'. I think you should reread that statement and think about what you're arguing.
What has honestly remained consistent with the internet? literally nothing but the protocols. The major players, web-browser, sites, web 1.0, web 2.0, social media, youtube...NOTHING on the internet has remained static.
You're confusing the internet with things on the internet or things that connect to the internet.
The protocols, the connections, those ARE the internet.
Sure websites change. Political powers change. But the internet is still the same.
At least link to Mike Benz if you're going to parrot his talking points
You are overestimating it. I give it 5 years at a maximum.
Maybe almost overnight because of Daemonic influences.
Do you mean that ironically? Or seriously? You never know these days...
I have invented the snazzjat and the prooble. Now tell me whether you know these will be an instrument of control in 20 years. You can't, because they're too new to fully understand.
The internet was new, and no one could predict where its complexity would go. You can't tell me you would know how to use it for control in decades and that it was planned to be used for totalitarian ends.
Well, if you yourself do not have any specific goal in mind, then yes, it might be hard to see where your invention leads. On the other hand, if you do have a specific goal in mind, it's not that hard to steer things in certain direction, to reach that specific goal. It's not so much about predicting events as consciously and deliberately steering them in a certain direction.
I already mentioned smartphones. Those almost certainly were designed as control and surveillance devices from the very start, but from the viewpoint of average person in 2010 it might have not been that obvious.
I don't see any reason why the internet could not be planned as a control and surveillance grid from the very start. Look backwards from today's standpoint and you could see it quite clearly. You could even divide it in approximate phases. Like development phase, introduction to the public phase, voluntary and fun phase, optimistic phase, mandatory phase, oppressive phase etc. Currently we are at the very end of optimistic phase and entering mandatory/oppressive phase. When fun and games are not quite over yet, but you can already feel and smell all the shit ahead of you.
I was part of designing smart phones at the start. You are misreading things. We intended them to be a next evolutionary step in personal communications. To say it was about controlling the masses at the start, is completely wrong and misreading the technology. I was at General Magic and our intent was to give people empowering tools. It was the same for Apple and the others.
Similarly, the internet grew out of academia and desires to share info with others; it was not about covert plans to enslave people. It was techies expanding the world.
Some paranoia is worthwhile and I even embrace some. But do not groundlessly apply false premises to technology, in the name of opposing totalitarianism. It is a worthy goal, but do not pursue that goal with false charges where they do not apply.
Now if you observe that the Internet now has been co-opted in the name of power, I completely agree with you.
But you know what? You can simply sell ICANN to the United Nations and European Union. The UN plebs and CERN Daemons will take care of everything.