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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The Internet Inflection Point on Trump's Fascism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Sat Jan 31 00:36:55 2026
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:20:06 -0800
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The Internet Inflection Point on Trump's Fascism
Alec Watson (YouTube channel "Technology Connections") has just
dropped a 90 minute video on renewable energy. Alec has been around YT
for over 10 years and has around 3 million subs now I believe. I don't
always agree with him, though the majority of my disagreements are not
foundational, but we'll leave that aside for now.
I haven't seen every video he's presented, but this new one seems
notable to me. The entire last segment is a political statement
against Republicans, Trump, fascism, ICE, and ... well ... basically
the same sort of stuff I've been continually spouting in my various
venues (along with my technical and tech policy discussions), for, uh,
quite some time. My sense is that Alex got seriously fed up.
This sort of thing is happening around the country, with writers,
podcasters, video creators, and others who up to now have been mostly
or completely politically essentially apolitical (at least publicly)
now taking very public stances against the current fascist
administration.
I believe an inflection point has been reached, of a kind never before
seen in the history of the Internet (or its ancestor ARPANET for that
matter), and I believe this is a very important moment.
Here is a link to the last section of Alec's video:
https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=4593
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