: 400 people arrested for social media posts
: 3300 people arrested for social media posts
UK’s population is less than half that of Russia’s so is this a propaganda that Russia is less oppressive? Source is unknown - how many were executed in Russia one wonders @YBWoke · 21h Just ask the Russian opposition leader. Oh right.
MATT TAIBBI: America Enters the Samizdat Era. “The Internet, in other words, was being transformed from a system for exchanging forbidden or dissenting ideas, like Samizdat, to a system for imposing top-down control over information and narrative, a GozIzdat. Worse, while the Soviets had to rely on primitive surveillance technologies, like the mandatory registration of typewriters, the Internet offered breathtaking new surveillance capability, allowing authorities to detect thoughtcrime by algorithm and instantaneously disenfranchise those on the wrong side of the information paradigm, stripping them of the ability to raise money or conduct business or communicate at all.”
Tar, feathers.
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Societies of perpetual movement aeon
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