• maplebar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Spoiler: it was Russia.

    Anyway, let’s be honest, the dream of the “world wide web” is, and always was, pretty damn naive.

    The internet and society at large would be a better place if we told our geopolitical enemies (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.) to fuck off and make their own internet (which they’re trying to do anyway, but today are benefiting from the best of both worlds). This one-way great firewall bullshit where foreign governments restrict what their people can see coming out of the west, while easily manipulating what our people see on social media via disinformation and troll farms, has not been working out.

    This may be an unpopular opinion, but we would be much better off with multiple multi-national intranets among allied nations with shared values, interests, laws, and accountability.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So was it the the Russians who blew up their own Nord pipeline, or was it that Ukrainian guy with a yacht? It’s hard to keep track

    Data cables defo Russia sabotage (if deliberate), doesn’t serve anyone else’s goals

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    1 year ago

    Is it a kraken? Please let it be a kraken. I think we’re due for some Pacific Rim style kaiju.