(04-01-2024, 08:46 AM)BIAD Wrote: The Thought Police landed in Scotland today and even though Orwell's book was a work of fiction,
he was bang-on the money when it comes to controlling the Message. There may've been a time
when Journalists would have rallied together to counter such restraints on free speech, sadly those
days are far behind us now.
I think that not too long from now, when they shut down or lock down the grid, that this will be contained.
Most people only developed a serious case of open mouth and flush all the crap you have stored in your brain, until the internet advanced past The Well and Usenet.
People say crap without giving one bit of thought to what they are regurgitating, and they definitely don't take one second to vet the information.
Even if they did do a brain dump, without the internet, the number of folk that would be exposed to the toxic spill is very small, and it would be easily dealt with. Much like it was done in the old days of fist to cuffs, klan rallies, and posses.
I think that free speech can be costly. I think it is going to cost so much in the future that most folk will choose to budget their words.