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Trump will be their biggest supporter, locking down the free and open net is the Fascists goal. What we have now, and have had, in the Western World in terms of open net, is going to be destroyed down to it's basic functionality, when Donald Trump and his minion of incompetents turn their attentions to it. I'm not sure the majority really understand what's about to happen.
Eh......I'm not sure trump is actually smart enough to understand HOW to do that.
This is the same guy who heard the term "clean coal", and began describing scrubbing the cosl with scrub brushes and soapy water. The same guy who heard not to look into an eclipse, and IMMEDIATELY looked into the eclipse. The same guy who created covfefe, defended it as not being a typo, and 10 years later, we're all still baffled by what that even COULD mean.
And you think he's about to instill the biggest lockdown in the world of internet traffic? Uhhhhh, no.
Trump doesn't have to. He's got someone in FCC who'll do it for him like Ajit Pai before. Net Neutrality is going to die again anyways, as we all expect. What will come from that after, will be more dominos falling.
While true, he has people with a tech clue in the background, even couch boy has a fair understanding of the basics, and Thiel & Musk have plenty of smart guys on the payroll
That's relying on them having the political will to do more than half-ass it. Let's be real, everyone loyal to trump is loyal for one (or more) of three reasons:
These are the same reasons people joined the first Trump administration and literally none of them are attempting to join his second administration meaning they were not able to realize any of their goals through Trump (or they were shown exactly how far they could go before they found the line they could not cross)
Simply put, it's not an environment conducive to actually realizing policy goals in any incredibly complex interconnected web. The last trump administration tried to block China from international logistics and instead made logistics more robust (and helped the Mexican economy by accidentally encouraging significant investment in manufacturing and logistics there) and got completely deadlocked by infighting when they attempted to realize their wet dream of "repealing and replacing" Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act. I'll be extremely impressed if a trump Administration manages to actually achieve a meaningful disruption of the Internet, especially with how the rest of the world largely refuses to support his policy goals
It was coverage, nobody was baffled by that part.
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