Preventing Digital Totalitarianism
summary
Argues that modern tech makes digital totalitarianism plausible: global surveillance (including 7 billion smartphones, CCTV, satellite imagery), AI that analyzes all data, and digital economies that can cut off individuals. Proposes concrete defenses: global secure communications built with ipfs and libp2p, blockchain-backed incentivized routing, distributed naming like ENS, and more R&D paid from crypto issuance. Notes progress: static content censorship resistance works today, but large-scale social apps, app-store distribution and full privacy at internet scale still fail to meet requirements.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Preventing digital totalitarianism
- 2:55Modern totalitarian risks
- 9:42How totalitarianism rises
- 14:30Secure global communications
- 26:27Call to action
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