/tech/ - Technology

>>33117
let me add this: looking back, the "free" internet didn't improved my life. linux didn't improved my life, leftypol didn't improved my life, 4chan didn't improved my life, the access to multipolarist propaganda didn't improved my life. all this privacy/free speech bullshit is just a liberal mind virus. nobody in china gives a shit about grapheneos, linux and privacy.

what would i lose, if the west would suddenly go the route of total internet crackdown like china? nothing. the corpo trash is just as disgusting and worthless like the products of the "free" internet. whats the point of the supposed free flow of information, if nothing happens anyway in the end? imagine the north koreans have seen goatse! they don't know how good a free and open internet is!

>>33118
the difference is that China and Korea have communist parties ruling them and you do not

Honestly people would generally be content with a completely controlled life if it meant a life with decent shelter, sustenance and companionship. That's mostly what people need anyways. I also don't think most people would be against things like arranged marriages if it most contentment and stability. I know I probably wouldn't. Most people don't really have much control over their lives nor do they really want to. It's too much work

>the internet crackdown is real, and I very often read that Linux is supposed to be the way out
>the Chinese are managing it fine. they don’t have these silly discussions about Linux, Tor, GrapheneOS and all that nonsense. they are completeky happy with wechat, douiyn and other corpo shit.
Linux is orthogonal to the Internet and privacy question and is actually very useful for China as a basis for their own operating systems so they don't depend on Western operating systems and it's open source so they can modify it at will. Not to mention how useful is Linux as embedded system for various devices.
Linux is also purely practically useful in general outside of political issues simply because of how much you can achieve with that system, it is very pliable.
As for Tor, GrapheneOS and similar stuff - they are useful in the West and Western-aligned countries because there it is in user's interest to escape the state that is currently in the hands of porkies and porky-aligned glowies.
In a socialist country on the other hand they would be only useful for counter-revolutionaries and foreign glowies.
The question is from who you're trying to escape/hide, porky or communist party? In the West porky runs the government, in China it is communist party.
Once a socialist revolution happens in your country Tor and such tools will become useless unless you're a counter-revolutionary. Until then they can be useful to you.

>what use is the darknet or any “alternatives” like Mastodon, Gopher or whatever if there’s no interesting/high-quality content there anyway?
I agree these are not useful in practice currently, merely potentially if things escalate much further forcing many more people to migrate. Pragmatically speaking it is better to use porky monopolies like a parasite that spreads "viruses". Counter-propaganda travels much faster and further on porky controlled platforms simply due to the mass of users.
Like the way Iran has won the propaganda war outside of burgerland because they used burger platforms while Trump has self-isolated himself on his own one-man platform.

>>33121
>Tor and such tools will become useless
What about for porn? They usually don't ban just porn studios (based) but also homemade videos and drawings/erotica