The real problem is the “save the children, ban encryption” bills they have lurking around. They pass some of those variations that strip protection from providers and force them to be responsible for anything that transits them unless it can be handed over in clear-text on demand and it’s game over.
Once they do that and mandate backdoors and ban any encryption that lacks it, they can force ISPs to police anyone using unauthorized, non-backdoored encryption and you instantly paint a very big target on yourself for using such services, perhaps even up to the point of being told to stop it or have your internet cut off by the ISP’s terrified of being successfully sued because someone using their service used non-backdoored, unauthorized encryption to commit a crime and they didn’t police and stop it and are therefore on the hook for millions in damages. That would quickly cause ISPs and providers to fall in line.
As the empire collapses they may try extreme draconian controls in an attempt to quash any dissenting voices and properly contain everyone in their already astroturfed mainstream panopticon websites where they can do proper information control, identify people engaging in socialist thought, unionizing, etc.
This is admittedly a worse-case scenario for some of the current bills floating around but it’s not much more than a skip and a hop away from them to this at best.
It’s one soft step above the military’s outlined strategy for dealing with near future domestic rebellion and uprisings which is to just cut off communications in relevant cities and blackbag and disappear prominent influencers who might side with and amplify the rebellion.
They want to stop it from getting to that point though and they want full narrative control, full insight into who they might need to blackbag in future to make the lists now.
The US is absolutely going to use modified Israeli tactics for occupation control of itself to maintain the empire longer in the face of potential domestic unrest in the face of foreign imperialism falling apart and unpopular wars.
The real problem is the “save the children, ban encryption” bills they have lurking around. They pass some of those variations that strip protection from providers and force them to be responsible for anything that transits them unless it can be handed over in clear-text on demand and it’s game over.
Once they do that and mandate backdoors and ban any encryption that lacks it, they can force ISPs to police anyone using unauthorized, non-backdoored encryption and you instantly paint a very big target on yourself for using such services, perhaps even up to the point of being told to stop it or have your internet cut off by the ISP’s terrified of being successfully sued because someone using their service used non-backdoored, unauthorized encryption to commit a crime and they didn’t police and stop it and are therefore on the hook for millions in damages. That would quickly cause ISPs and providers to fall in line.
As the empire collapses they may try extreme draconian controls in an attempt to quash any dissenting voices and properly contain everyone in their already astroturfed mainstream panopticon websites where they can do proper information control, identify people engaging in socialist thought, unionizing, etc.
This is admittedly a worse-case scenario for some of the current bills floating around but it’s not much more than a skip and a hop away from them to this at best.
Yeah, I’ve seen those bills, they are very worrying
It’s one soft step above the military’s outlined strategy for dealing with near future domestic rebellion and uprisings which is to just cut off communications in relevant cities and blackbag and disappear prominent influencers who might side with and amplify the rebellion.
They want to stop it from getting to that point though and they want full narrative control, full insight into who they might need to blackbag in future to make the lists now.
The US is absolutely going to use modified Israeli tactics for occupation control of itself to maintain the empire longer in the face of potential domestic unrest in the face of foreign imperialism falling apart and unpopular wars.