Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan Turned Internet Censorship Into a Business
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"Create a problem, create the solution and profit from it" is not unique to Turkmenistan nor a new concept. I wouldn't be surprised if this is also true of the "anti-AI crawling" and "identity verification" stuff that's now showing up.
Some people voice concern about the emergence of “prison planet” (a phrase with varied meanings), but with the rise of mass surveillance, drone tech, AI and authoritarianism I can well imagine the worst patterns of governance finding a stable equilibrium for a considerable period of time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum
Read up on what they advocate for and who they’re influencing and you’ll start to understand what’s going in the world a little better. Chilling stuff for sure.
I think they are indirectly responsible for his rise, because he is a direct result of the growing backlash against globalist policies.
Why do you think they're somehow disjoint? Even if there is some friendly competition between different factions of elites jockeying for power based on how they market themselves, from an individual/liberty perspective why wouldn't you still consider them more alike than different?
NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool™ (COST) is a data-driven online service that enables anyone – including journalists, researchers, advocates, policy makers, businesses, and others – to quickly and easily produce rough estimates of the economic cost of Internet disruptions.
https://progres.online/reports/internet-freedom/what-does-in...
"It indicates that a total internet shutdown in Turkmenistan for one day could result in a loss of 17.4 million USD, which translates to 6.4 billion USD per year, equivalent to around 7.8% of the country’s GDP in 2023."
That’s a lot.
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