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In reply to the discussion: Here's how to change the world [View all]BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)They own the infrastructure, and it is all heavily monitored anyway so your point is feel good nonsense. Furthermore, if all the avenues of power are closed and people have no ability to organize and act against them people can say whatever they want in screaming impotence and it won't matter.
So person A and person B are communicating and agree they are screwed (this is course some utopia as nobody can even agree on this), so what? It is what they do after they agree they are screwed and have identified the screwer that matters. The internet might be able to assist in this in some form but it is clearly not a game changer as our great grand parents and great, great grandparents were far better at fighting against the same interests hurting us today. We can't even accomplish 1/10th of what they did so my estimation of the powers of the internet is understandably negative.