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Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by FilterSweep on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:30PM (#15341792)
You could argue it already ended with the corporatists' "Web 2.0". And PRISM.

The only real difference now is that its entering the public's consciousness, and the ground is rife for authoritarians to present non-ideal solutions.

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Re:Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage... by cJ0th on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:57PM (#15342024)
> You could argue it already ended with the corporatists' "Web 2.0". And PRISM.

What's more, FB and Co are to blame for these shutdowns of communication channels. Had we kept our communication decentralized governments would have a much harder time identifying communication services.

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