So, this internet is great, but the government created it, and some governments have already neutralized it as an organizing tool for their dissidents.
One thing I know the tech people are into, is freedom, so...
What do we do if they lock it down where we are? Do we have, you know, mesh network firmwares for routers?
It's not at all far-fetched to think they could take this away, so how would we keep doing all this, if they do? We oughta be, you know, developing that now.
What if they just stop it entirely? Lock regular people out of the protocol level entirely?
Meta attempted to establish this as the norm in India and failed, but there's no reason to suppose a sufficiently fascist world community of nations, led by a suddenly-good-buddies USA and Russia, could not just decide the whole thing was a bad idea.
If I was writing it, I would call it a relic of the cold war, from the time before we lived in peace. If I was a piece of shit.
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