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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 I also wasn't really politically aware until 2014/2015, my family was not particularly political, nor were we effected by 2008, so it's easy for me to look back it through overly rose tinted glasses.