Over the past few weeks there have been a few incidents that have led me to believe

things are heading in the wrong direction.

And I know that sounds kind of tame, but I really do feel like we're heading towards a dystopian future.

That all these novels from the past century, that we would read and say we should never allow this to happen,

they're happening.

From mass surveillance from the government and from corporations, the curtailing of free speech and free expression,

things seem to be getting a whole lot worse.

The story about Facebook and how they collect data that you never agreed to give them

is old, it's from several years ago.

We've heard stories about people being arrested for posting rap lyrics on Facebook years ago,

and things seem to be only getting worse, so dare I say it, it really does seem like we are losing the battle.

Social media networks are selectively enforcing who they ban and who they restrict.

YouTube is demonetizing many channels and we don't really know why.

Videos are being restricted for having the wrong opinions, but certain groups, certain people

are allowed to post offensive content and get away with it.

A lot of progress was made with the dawn of the internet, but it seems like there is some kind

of effort, be it intentional or just emergent, to retract everything that we gained from the internet.

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