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Growing up as a teen in the 2010s I heard a lot about how 'dystopian' the Internet controls were in China but between what's been happening with Tik-Tok and the age and ID verification laws the US and UK are in a race to outdo them. I subscribed to Mulvad VPN, but am worried about this global trend.

It's easy (for me especially) to look back at the late 2000s and early 2010s as a really amazing time, both in terms technology and politics. We had smartphones maturing but not yet stagnated and evil, Obama was president, the Maker movement was in full swing, gay rights had major wins.

But the way that personal dignity and liberty was at least in the abstract valued, and the way we hoped the democratization of technology would help us reach a more global, more equitable, and more free society just feels so incredibly dated and naive as our tech billionaires get richer...