1) LOL.

2) Per Kirk, in the final fleeting moments before the Fucking Algorithmic Globalist Scum complete their ascension to absolute world order, compile lists of worthy works, collect digital copies from Archive.org and LibGen, OCR them, print in paper books (multiple copies), and hoard.

Richard Stallman’s hysterics are getting less and less funny with each passing day.

Your most likely Stalin or Mussolini isn’t the guy writing the blogs. It’s the asshole like Zuckerf**k, who’s writing the algorithms that serve the stories up. You want to know the most likely candidates for the next series of totalitarian dictators, look among the ranks of the folks running FakeBuch, or Gaagle. Not naming names because like with so many prescient magic tropes, to name them is to call them up.

Newspapers and writing are both dead media, insofar as totalitarian takeover tools. The real worries you should have are the insidious ones who control the algorithms. It’s quite as if you should have been concerned, back in the day, about who was making the newsprint. Now, because of how they can influence things by inclusion or exclusion in search results, they can control the entire set of arguments about a given case. All they need to do is to either highlight specific things, or ignore others.

The real deal with the media in the past hasn’t been that they were censored or controlled, per se–It was what they chose to highlight vs. what they chose to omit coverage of. That used to be the purview of the editors, but that power is now reposed in the hands of the ones running the search tools.

We’re entering into a new era of totalitarian information control, and it’s one that you ought to be scared witless of. It’s not what books they’re burning, but the ones they’re de-accessioning and pulping. Our era is going to be remembered as the beginning of a digital dark age, and you can thank all the Zuckerdroids and Brinbots for all of it. A thousand years from now, the only voices from this era that anyone will know will be those of the sanctified SJW types, if the crooked bastards have anything to say about it.

In their day, it was the most effective and efficient way to reach their audience.