I live in a country that's heading down that path. They're introducing laws at this very moment that will probably give politicians and judges unlimited power to suppress any speech on the internet. They don't call themselves censors, they use euphemisms like "autonomous internet supervision entity".

> I miss "hackers" from the 90s with some actual backbone.

Same. It boggles my mind that I can find people who accept wrongthink as a legitimate concept here on Hacker News. I wonder if those hackers left this place and if so where they are at.