I fear the only viable real options are either freedom, where the weaker more susceptible will be slaves to the screen;
or the chinese option with state monopoly on servers, a state firewall, all traffic to go through state controlled choke-points, and state-mandated pre-posting/publishing censorship&compliance software.
Both have advantages and disadvantages, and any mix will lack any advantages while having all the disadvantages.
And of course, a cultre centered in and on itself instead of having suffered globalisation and universalist american ideals since the late 1950s wouldn't have been vulnerable in the first place.
I fear the only viable real options are either freedom, where the weaker more susceptible will be slaves to the screen;
or the chinese option with state monopoly on servers, a state firewall, all traffic to go through state controlled choke-points, and state-mandated pre-posting/publishing censorship&compliance software.
Both have advantages and disadvantages, and any mix will lack any advantages while having all the disadvantages.
And of course, a cultre centered in and on itself instead of having suffered globalisation and universalist american ideals since the late 1950s wouldn't have been vulnerable in the first place.
Well, Ben Franklin once said:
'Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.'
Nuff said, I s'ppose.