This is all by design. An ignorant populace is an easily-malleable populace. Remember that.
They don't actually want us to have access to the breadth and width of knowledge available on the Internet.
They don't want us to know what's happening in Palestine.
They don't want us talking to people in Germany who maybe have complex feelings about the bombs that we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They don't want us learning about them murdering women in broad daylight for no reason until it's several days or weeks later, if at all.
They want a return to when the US population in particular (and other countries to varying degrees of association and oppression) were easily propagandized with no recourse, because it was hard to find information that countered the propaganda.
That's why enshittification. That's why AI. That's why forcing ID for social media platforms. That's why banning children from said platforms. Kids, after all, are the easiest minds to mold. If you get them used to not having instant access to semi-accurate news and knowledge, then the rest of society will eventually follow.
Yes, Facebook and Twitter are havens for misinformation, but they're also breaking news sources with firsthand accounts.
Traditional media can be, to some extent or another, controlled.
Individuals can be controlled.
Even target demographics can be controlled, with careful applications of force, disinformation, and hype.
But whole populations of people, en masse, with a semi-reliable network for distributing their views and information?
That's a whole different monster, and it's a lot harder to control.
They've learned this since the advent of the iPhone. They watched Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, everything that happened during the beginning of the pandemic, and what's going on with the ICE protests.
(They've tried their own hand at it with Cambridge Analytica, right-wing and dem plants on Tiktok, several CIA ops, and a lot of creative uses of the emergency powers acts, but none are as successful as home-grown, free-range organic rage.)
The Internet is a useful tool but it's giving power (knowledge/information) to the people and they don't like that. It's inconvenient and annoying to the ruling class, for us peons to be properly educated, correctly informed, and righteously enraged.
Remember that they want you ignorant to what they do. Think of the world in terms of the control of information and this makes a lot of sense.
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