The Decentralized Web's Rising Status, And The Future Of It Under Fürher Biden
The "hate" speech currently eyed to be federally censored is just one of many signs pointing to a fascist downturn in America's government.
It’s already been made abundantly clear from this installed regime (legitimizing this coup in any way is only giving credence to the government’s corruption) that anyone that goes against the fürher’s orders will be punished harshly for their resistance. From reopening an investigation into Elon Musk for hiring American citizens over illegal immigrants after he called out Biden to instating a reinvigorated Ministry Of Truth hellbent on punishing those who refuse to see him as a legitimate president (which he’s not), it’s clear to anyone who wasn’t already paying attention that his entire “unity” spiel was nothing more than a pretty red bow wrapped around a heaping pile of fascist demands… um, executive orders.
But enough about Fürher Biden, there’s more to discuss that can easily be saved for its own piece. What’s more important than his merciless destruction of the United States is what happens to the decentralized web, which had been reinvigorated under President Trump and Big Tech censorship going into overdrive the moment it was announced he was the victor in the 2016 election.
The Precursor
Decentralized tech is not a new phenomenon, evolving alongside consumer computing technology since the 1980s, with rudimentary bulletin boards and shareware being the era’s Pirate Bay and 4chan. However, with the launch of the World Wide Web (WWW for the normies who only know the acronym), it made it easier for modern decentralized standards like IRC and RSS to provide effortless, anonymized, and censorship-resistant communication to millions around the world.
Even during the Bush era, where the Patriot Act laid the groundwork for the government to spy on millions of innocent civilians under the guise of preemptive prevention, resources like the (now government honeypot, sadly) Tor Project and BitTorrent came to ensure that if anyone or any information ever began to get censored for expressing the wrong opinion (sound familiar?), they could still be accessed easily for those willing to seek it out.
Social Media Decentralization
Around the 2010s, when social networking began to experience its biggest boom under Obama’s usage of it during his presidency, a new wave of decentralized tech began to roll out to the masses. Decentralized social media services such as Diaspora and Mastadon began to slowly build up an established userbase, which in turn, alongside the disdain Big Tech began to show toward conservatives, spurred on the creation of more alternative social media sites. Gab quickly overtook Diaspora in popularity. Minds showed people that a social network powered by cryptocurrency could have lasting power in the age of censorship and lack of digital ownership. Then Trump got elected, and the crackdown on opposing speech began.
What Happens Now?
With an ever-increasing crackdown on alternative platforms, said alternative platforms going through internal turmoil, and less freedom of choice available for a true startup, it’s clear that you’ll have to put your entire life on the line to create an everlasting social media alternative. Andrew Torba lost every part of his life to keep Gab running, including the ability to use and process any card on VISA or Mastercard. Yet he’s completely self-hosted Gab on bare metal, buying both his own servers and space for them as he continues to provide a haven for millions of banned voices or those who want to support the mission to preserve freedom of speech in a world that’s increasingly hostile against it. There will always be people who will lead the fight to allow all legal speech without exemption, and anyone trying to stop that will feel the fury of millions of fed-up people across the world.
God bless you all, fuck America.