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I don't ever accredit myself as being the brightest person around and that's okay, because if I want to, I could always learn more and better. I would want that for everyone too. I'm proud to be one of those people, with common sense and have developed enough intelligence to see through the bullshit and enact in ways that make reasonable sense and is morally attuned.

We're already seeing the pieces come together and Project 2025 is going to attempt to finalize and orchestrate what it intends to do about education. They're putting faith and belief before facts and truths. They're outright banning what classrooms can be allowed to discuss, we've seen this in practice with LGBTQ. So you can guess what exactly that they're keen on banning because now we've got not only corrupt people in power soon, but corrupt people who still falsely uphold beliefs in a religion that they feel everyone should be educated in.

This community now has a role preventing posting US politics questions

[email protected] is probably a better place

They published a 900+ page manifesto on it. Project 2025 won’t all be accomplished but it’s the policy agenda.

TLDs, DNS, and much of the structure of how the internet operates was controlled and run by American agencies ICANN, IANA (US department of commerce until just recently). Their offices are still located in the US.

The FBI and Homeland Security are known to seize domains - globally.

With Gabbard as DNI, and Gaetz as AG, everything that is, to them, a threat, insult, disrespectful, embarrassing, untruth, ungodly, or in any way counters their agenda and rewriting of history, will be at risk.

Just think of all that orange guy is, and all that he isn't:

He is white, old, male, (somewhat) rich, right wing, educated, member of a majority, and a criminal.

Such people, places, things, and ideas are going to get benefits.

All colored, young, female (& div.), poor, left wing, uneducated, all kinds of minorities (!), and upright honest people, places, things, and ideas will be getting hard times.

Google, facebook and reddit have gutted the internet but OP just woke up about these risks because organge man got elected 🤡

A for vibes, D for analysis

Corpos are your primary enemies here... I am sure Trump will enable them, but this is not a partisan issue just pedestrian "American capitalism"

Most educational material within us is owned by publishing companies who fleece the states on text books for school, and student loans for high ed.

Scientic papers are hosted by a few private companies who own the copyright to peer reviewed articles. Look Aaron Schwarz, that will provide you some context on who you are dealing with here.

IE this is not public info and if you try to do what you are suggesting, 1. Not possible 2. It's a fucking crime 🤡

I ain't a bootlicker, more power to you though!

I'm not expecting much to be banned or censored, per se, but I can see more GOP-controlled states removing a lot of LGBT books and other media from schools.

In general, education in the US is left to the states, which means I'd mainly just expect a continuation of the trend we've been seeing for a few years now in places like Florida and Tennessee of removing queer books from schools.

From the federal perspective, I'd also anticipate the possibility of FAFSA being gutted and making higher ed inaccessible to more students. If this sort of content is not covered in public schools, there will be fewer opportunities to study queer literature later on. And even then, state universities in red states are subject to the same restrictions as their public schools, so those students may be SOL unless they have the means to study out of state.

The main problem is: even if the material remains pretty freely available outside of schools, how do you make the people who would benefit from it the most feel driven to seek it out independently?

The internet in the united states you're using right now, is going to be unrecognizable in the next 12 months, all free services will charge, cost for access will increase, speed will be symied, vpn usage will be curtailed, and archive, library, and pirate sites will be blocked.

We just re-elected a fascist tyrant who wants to close as many avenues of education and free speech which can be used to educate, organize, and publish against him as he possibly can, as well as funnel as much cash to media and tech oligarchs to keep them onside, and now he's got both the house and senate with which to do just that.

If I’m wearing my it’s-gonna-get-like-real-bad-bad hat (I am), I’m left to think about distributed storage among brave people who know how to hide shit. More like part of an undernet of things we need to build and maintain.

But the risk in an authoritarian environment would be great.

You don't need to make any backups, the information is already shared worldwide. Should the Trump Administration choose to censor information, there are plenty of us outside the US who will be more than happy to provide it to you anyways.

At most you'll need a VPN that doesn't log IPs.