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I also wish to remind people that we are all beholden to mammoth organisations for our hosting services in almost all large scale social media reach.

I do not know how many independent data centres there are but they could be compromised and taken over with the amount of funds that are out there.

Another sad thing even with SubStack is the tight integration with Google. All mail travels via Google, the fonts are probably fetched from Google, the analytics are probably from Google. The hosting may be Google. The SSL certificates are possibly from LetsEncrypt (that has in my view questionable early sponsors). Google knows what we are saying before our followers know.

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You are probably onto something here. While from an outside non USA observers perspective it seems like a good thing if the party politics could be set aside for a while so that people could focus on the common pressing issues. I do have some suspicion that the pressing issues that will be addressed will not be those of the common man even though there might be opportunity.

Working from the very likely position that all parties and tiers of government in the USA (and elsewhere) are heavily compromised by lobby funds and party loyalty it seems unlikely that eliminating the remaining pretence of opposition would somehow magically eliminate the lobby funds and party loyalty. I expect that there would be a great likely hood that a uni-party would promote the lobby narrative even more effectively.

As to Elon Musk, he seems to have risen higher than simple work ethic and lofty goals would be expected to propel him. He speaks in favour of many good things but fails to comprehensively deliver on them. Free speech and personal medical choice are points he makes but he does not stick with them. Another commenter said the neo-aristocracy will not turn off the Internet and Bitcoin if it threatens them because they need the Internet. The Internet is incredibly vulnerable to control even though it should not be but it is even more vulnerable to total shutdown. Simply turn off the ubiquitous free SSL certificate servers that were foisted onto all web sites or turn off hosting services to undesirable sites or restrict DNS service by weaponising/capturing Cloudfare. As it stands in a short while there will be an Internet fallback system that is not managed by hundreds of honest authorities but it managed by a single corporation/person. If StarLink is positioned as a backup to the terrestrial internet backbone and only delivers traffic for sanctioned activity then BitCoin will be history and the resistance will fall unless we find some Metichlorians somewhere.

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