Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brad Pearce
“It appears that the free global internet, such as it was, which many of us loved and grew up with, is nearly dead. Long gone are the days of anonymous IRC chats or where only paranoiacs thought their emails were monitored. The growing standard is the government demanding websites know who you are all the time to ‘protect’ you from a myriad of trivial things such as ‘hate speech’ or videos of people eating too much. As has become common, it is not any of the ‘authoritarian’ states we hear about leading the way to the end of internet freedom, but instead the ethnic European parts of the former British Empire.” (09/01/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-end-of-the-free-global-internet