Rise of the ‘splinternet’

[Crow BarKeymaster]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6905695/Breaking-internet-new-regulations-imperil-global-network.html

Will we see parts of the web split off into “members only” micro-webs?

[ephemeralParticipant]

 

All governments need to control the “narrative” in order to control the information available to the people under their control.

You think within the parameters of what you know, obviously. Whoever controls the information available to you, in effect controls your thinking.

Those wielding power can only allow the illusion of free thought, self-determination, all the while controlling the information flow, and therefore what information is available to people for their though formation, and to influence their actions based upon same.

All governments, all seemingly different political parties have the same need, and resort to the same tactics. They need to control the people, and the most effective way to do this is through controlling the information flow to heavily influence the thinking of most everyone. Some are better at it than others, but they all do it.

The internet is the predominant information source for people in western cultures, and in an ever growing number of other cultures. Control of the information flow on the internet is critical to control of the various populations.

The surveillance/police state is the perceived necessary governmental form of the future, with a carefully maintained illusion of democracy etc by the constant control of information.

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[Crow BarKeymaster]

Fortunately for me, as a former Intelligence Analyst, I know how to read between the lines, read differing views, and formulate my own analysis and conclusions.

[ephemeralParticipant]

“Fortunately for me, as a former Intelligence Analyst, I know how to read between the lines, read differing views, and formulate my own analysis and conclusions.”

Maybe so, I’ll take you at your word, but the vast majority do not have the training you have, although they too believe that they have the same skills to discern truth from fiction, see through the fog of distortion.

Nobody is completely immune to the influence of the constant propaganda, the purposeful subtle distortions, it is a matter of degree.

I observe people who self-identify as conservative who accept parts of the leftist agenda without thinking, especially PC thought, and strenuously deny any influence in that regard. The incremental nature of the efforts, through time, is effective at changing peoples thoughts in subtle ways, building gradually. Only in retrospect do the changes become starkly evident.

The efforts to influence thought through manipulation of information works very well, and people like you who see more realistically do not matter to any degree. The converted, the convinced, the deluded, will deny your point of view in favor of their own, the official approved one, and if you do start accruing too much influence, start convincing too wide of an audience, you will be made ineffective, silenced somehow ……. maybe child porn will magically appear on your computer, at just the right time.

 

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