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I get your point about the 'Panopticon' aspect of the web, but honestly? It’s a lot easier to romanticize a 'No-Internet world' when you have the option to opt-out.
When it’s forced on you by the state, it doesn’t feel like a return to local community; it feels like an isolation ward. In a modern economy, being offline doesn't just mean 'no social media'—it means you can't pay your bills, your business bleeds out, and you're cut off from the global market of ideas.
Total control isn't just watching what we do online; it's also having the power to decide if we can communicate at all. I’d rather fight the 'nightmare' of the internet with encryption than live in the 'blessing' of a digital dark age
If your business depends of internet, it means you are running the wrong business.
To produce food and basic necessities do not require internet.
So be happy when the state will cut your internet... THEY CANNOT CONTROL YOU ANYMORE.
That’s a tough take to defend in 2026. Unless you’re running a 19th-century blacksmith shop, your business is tied to the global network. Even the most hardcore Bitcoiners rely on the internet to propagate blocks and reach consensus.
Saying it’s the 'wrong business' because it needs connectivity is like saying a heart is the 'wrong organ' because it needs oxygen. We don't need less internet; we need a more resilient, decentralized one that doesn't have a single point of failure at the government's ISP cabinet
Is silly to think that you can achieve that meanwhile you are still supporting the state...
Stop voting, stop believing in gov "authority", stop paying taxes and then we can talk about "decentralization"...
Decentralization start when you stop being a statist cuck.
It's easy to preach 'agorism' and 'not paying taxes' when you're sitting behind a keyboard in a place where the rule of law actually exists to protect your dissent.
When you live in a place where the state can physically disconnect you from the world, freeze your local bank account at the press of a button, and has a monopoly on violence, 'stop voting' isn't a strategy—it's the default reality.
Decentralization isn't a lifestyle choice for us; it’s a necessity for survival. We use these tools precisely because we are forced to live under that authority, not because we 'believe' in it. Talking down to people who are actually facing the consequences of centralized power doesn't make you more decentralized; it just makes you out of touch with how the world works outside your bubble
where the rule of law actually exists to protect your dissent.
What is "rule of law" ? Obeying the state rules but crying online about how the state cut your internet?
What is the law in the end ?
A piece of paper where it says I should obey it? Is it a contract ? Where did I sign that contract?
We can debate the 'Social Contract' all day, but that doesn't fix the infrastructure. While you're busy with semantics, we're focused on building workarounds for a digital siege. I'm interested in P2P resilience, not philosophy. Unless you have a technical solution for offline connectivity, I’m moving on
Let me know when that online P2P resilience gives you food.
Meanwhile go on, be a statist bootlicker that only complain.
Internet is not a blessing... is a nightmare. A tool of control.
We will be better people without internet.
Without internet, people will start knowing each others and rely more on local communities than some weirdos online.