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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 107474" data-source="post: 1083066">The discussion started years ago, despite allowing governements to check the code Kaspersky was banned (<a href="https://www.av-comparatives.org/spotlight-security-bob-dylan-dalai-lama-threats-transparency/" target="_blank">link</a>)The open internet never really was completely open (China and North Korea filtering webtraffic), now more and more contries are monitoring internet traffic, some explicitely (e.g Saudi Arabia) and some silently (the green countries on the map below are not really as green as they seem, as disclosed by Snowdon - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM" target="_blank">link</a>}[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&amp;year=2024[/URL]The EU is also realizing they are to dependant on US based services (<a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/europe-s-digital-markets-act-is-forcing-tech-giants-to-make-changes-/7515775.html" target="_blank">link</a>). With geo-political forces pushing the &#039;who monitors and regulates our information&#039; discussion further and further to the digital world, my guess is that in 20 years or so the open internet will be an semi-open internet with four or five global aliances controling and monitoring their own sub-worlds.EDIT: to put it into perspective: Social media &quot;show you what you like&quot; AI and interest based content feeding programs, have a much higher impact on what people see and notice of the world. When you like 5 or more cat movies on TikTok or Youtube, your world will narrow down to cat&#039;s doing funny stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 107474, post: 1083066"] The discussion started years ago, despite allowing governements to check the code Kaspersky was banned ([URL='https://www.av-comparatives.org/spotlight-security-bob-dylan-dalai-lama-threats-transparency/']link[/URL]) The open internet never really was completely open (China and North Korea filtering webtraffic), now more and more contries are monitoring internet traffic, some explicitely (e.g Saudi Arabia) and some silently (the green countries on the map below are not really as green as they seem, as disclosed by Snowdon - [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM']link[/URL]} [URL unfurl="true"]https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2024[/URL] The EU is also realizing they are to dependant on US based services ([URL='https://www.voanews.com/a/europe-s-digital-markets-act-is-forcing-tech-giants-to-make-changes-/7515775.html']link[/URL]). With geo-political forces pushing the 'who monitors and regulates our information' discussion further and further to the digital world, my guess is that in 20 years or so the open internet will be an semi-open internet with four or five global aliances controling and monitoring their own sub-worlds. EDIT: to put it into perspective: Social media "show you what you like" AI and interest based content feeding programs, have a much higher impact on what people see and notice of the world. When you like 5 or more cat movies on TikTok or Youtube, your world will narrow down to cat's doing funny stuff. [/QUOTE]

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