The implications of the RESTRICT act, the law banning use of numerous foreign technologies, are ones that vaguely but steadily shift the country closer towards a thorough crackdown on anti-imperialist sentiments. The act doesn’t outright ban speech that challenges Atlanticist, anti-China, pro-NATO narratives, it only provides the legal framework for a scenario where the state starts banning such ideas in practice. This cultivation of the conditions for an anti-democratic purge has a deeper motive, a motive which comes from fear.
First bit is a good summary of modern COINTELPRO and how they recruit pseudo-leftists indirectly thru higher education (that was a scathing background-check of Vaush holy hell). Second bit is the kind of hilariously specific laying out of the "real movement" that you always get from orgs who overestimate their own importance.
There's a clear tone shift the moment he goes from explaining fed subversion with grounded evidence, to reverse-engineering a reason for this handful of orgs he just happens to be familiar with must be the main targets of this subversion. He uses a bunch of implications that imply other things. Read the analysis but once it stops, read between the lines a bit.
First bit is a good summary of modern COINTELPRO and how they recruit pseudo-leftists indirectly thru higher education (that was a scathing background-check of Vaush holy hell). Second bit is the kind of hilariously specific laying out of the "real movement" that you always get from orgs who overestimate their own importance.
There's a clear tone shift the moment he goes from explaining fed subversion with grounded evidence, to reverse-engineering a reason for this handful of orgs he just happens to be familiar with must be the main targets of this subversion. He uses a bunch of implications that imply other things. Read the analysis but once it stops, read between the lines a bit.
yeah I see what you're talking about