We have turned their surveillance weapon into our asset
I disagree. By using their tools we give them information about ourselves more than we receive about them. They learn more about s than we learn about them. Why do you think so much money is poured into "AI" projects? It's all about making sense of the massive amounts of behavioral user data. If they can make sense of it, they can manipulate people automatically, just as we see done today. Always listening, always learning to optimize human response patterns.
I'm not saying what you're doing is bad. I'm saying that "winning" cannot be achieved by using their tools against them. P2P applications are the only way to actually achieve a communications infrastructure that is outside of central control. Hence, why all governments and intel agencies demonize p2p applications, even going so far as to make them illegal in many countries.
I would simply put in evidence that the " great YouTube " ban on its own created dozens of competitors which would have never been viable other wise.
yet those alternatives are still centralized services the employ the client-server model, not p2p.
They are still under central control, which is why they are allowed to continue existing.
Most of them use cloudflare, or other types of spyware dragnets, further centralizing control and information flow.
The trick is getting us, the plebians, to believe that something like the "youtube ban" was unintenteded and not part of their plan.
P2P is you coming on the show and us having this conversation simulcast on multiple platforms for all to hear, P2P is me welding my neighbors tractor shaking his hand. You see how the language has been inverted? the actual meanings of the words inverted?
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