Those with longer memories may hazily remember events from 2010 when the
obvious became known, and aftershocks that followed and shaped this decade.
It was done by introducing new piping in the global information flow
system, that enabled short-circuiting between siloed domains of the
ruling class and the ruled serfs.
This was probably the first grassroots infrastructural attempt to
counter the flow monopolies. It was attacked on the infrastructure side
by hijacking DNS and seizing the machines. Fortunately spreading IP
numbers could not be stopped (there was a thriving activity of
disseminating lists of IP numbers), and everyone and their mother
started mirroring it. It truly became grassroots infrastructure and it
could not be stopped. It was a success.
It was also attacked by pretty much everyone with some voice, as most
were rather happy with the status quo, regardless of the 'side' they
were on. The new infrastructure changed the rules of the game. For the
left, it made the intellectual drivel and dogma obvious for what it is,
invalidating 'theory' into the ground. For the right, it removed the
curtain and forced it to even farther right. This is what new
infrastructure does. It makes many uncomfortable, as it obliterates
domesticated ideologies.
It is such a shame that it did not get more support. It is such a shame
that it did not inspire more copycats to build other
counter-infrastructures - not just for leaking, but for countering the
dominant information flow regimes in general.
It is such a shame that the audience sits and watches as the founder of
this infrastructure is being subjected to more and more enhanced
imprisonment. Motherf*ckers, this is more important than which oligarch
has better style. which cretinous subset is a greater victim, or
pondering when will the capitalism end.
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