But it’s increasingly clear that the wealthy classes don’t think people should have this level of self-determination as they don’t appear to be able to govern themselves responsibly enough to consciously avoid catastrophic global consequences. Or perhaps the threat of various catastrophes are the mechanisms being used to implement policies even if they are simply being leveraged as an excuse to implement control.
In the words of Slovenian philosopher Slavoy Žižek:
> ‘To grasp the whole scope of this control and manipulation one should move beyond the link between private corporations and political parties…, to the interpenetration of data-processing companies like Google or Facebook and state security agencies. … The overall image emerging … provides an adequate and terrifying vision of new forms of social control that make the good old twentieth-century “totalitarianism” a rather primitive and clumsy machine of control’.
If you want to be free, vote with your wallet and stop buying this intermediate and compromised junk. On this site we all love technology and have a vision for the future that's possible now, but until we fix the governments of the world, it's just a pipe dream.
[1] Though FCC regulations on radio may be a gray line here, but I'm not too familiar with them.