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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by hnauz on Friday December 21, 2018 @01:57PM (#18735586)
>I thought the Internet would just make the next attempt that much faster to die out, but apparently I was wrong!

That's how politics work, it's a pendulum. It has swung too far to liberalism, we're almost at Weimar republic now. Now it's time for the pendulum to swing back. If anything, the Internet is going to accelerate it.

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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by arduanika on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:13PM (#18737571)
Strongly disagree with any theory of history based on analogy to Newtonian mechanics. History simply isn't that predictable. History is stochastic. History only happens once. Read Popper.
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