Western governments will become more and more totalitarian. This will manifest itself by these things, among others:
More and more countries will ban VPNs, Tor, and any technology that allows people to browse the internet bypassing governmental supervision, control and censorship. Internet Service Providers will be demanded to completely block access to known VPN servers.
More and more countries will ban encrypted connections, including SSH and the HTTPS protocol, except for a list of allowed websites. ISPs will be demanded to block access to non-authorized HTTPS hosts.
More and more countries will ban access and demand censorship of non-authorized social media services such as Gab, Bitchute and so on. They may also ban access to non-authorized crowdfunding services such as SubscribeStar, as well as non-authorized payment processors and banks. As with everything else, these bans will be done at the ISP level.
And, on that same note, more and more countries will start banning cryptocurrencies, most prominently Bitcoin, but also all the others that exist.
More and more countries will start requiring licenses from every citizen before they can upload content to sites like YouTube and Twitch. Uploading content without a legal license will become illegal.
For the remaining authorized online services, heavy requirements will be imposed onto them for censorship of opinions, and to report any breach of the laws and rules to be reported to the authorities. Any person who breaks these rules may receive fines and even incarceration depending on the severity of the breach, and may have his access to the internet limited or completely revoked.
For any people with a limited access to the internet, the only way they can access it will be through government-sanctioned (and perhaps even government-owned) ISPs, which will impose special draconian restrictions on which sites these people will be allowed to access. (It will be essentially a whitelist of allowed sites, with all other IP addresses being completely blocked.)
In any such country where these draconian limitations will be implemented, if said country has a constitution, they will engage in rationalizations about why these sanctions do not breach the constitution. Some of them may even change their own constitution to allow these sanctions and restrictions.
When all of this goes far enough, China will look like a free country in comparison.
More and more countries will ban VPNs, Tor, and any technology that allows people to browse the internet bypassing governmental supervision, control and censorship. Internet Service Providers will be demanded to completely block access to known VPN servers.
More and more countries will ban encrypted connections, including SSH and the HTTPS protocol, except for a list of allowed websites. ISPs will be demanded to block access to non-authorized HTTPS hosts.
More and more countries will ban access and demand censorship of non-authorized social media services such as Gab, Bitchute and so on. They may also ban access to non-authorized crowdfunding services such as SubscribeStar, as well as non-authorized payment processors and banks. As with everything else, these bans will be done at the ISP level.
And, on that same note, more and more countries will start banning cryptocurrencies, most prominently Bitcoin, but also all the others that exist.
More and more countries will start requiring licenses from every citizen before they can upload content to sites like YouTube and Twitch. Uploading content without a legal license will become illegal.
For the remaining authorized online services, heavy requirements will be imposed onto them for censorship of opinions, and to report any breach of the laws and rules to be reported to the authorities. Any person who breaks these rules may receive fines and even incarceration depending on the severity of the breach, and may have his access to the internet limited or completely revoked.
For any people with a limited access to the internet, the only way they can access it will be through government-sanctioned (and perhaps even government-owned) ISPs, which will impose special draconian restrictions on which sites these people will be allowed to access. (It will be essentially a whitelist of allowed sites, with all other IP addresses being completely blocked.)
In any such country where these draconian limitations will be implemented, if said country has a constitution, they will engage in rationalizations about why these sanctions do not breach the constitution. Some of them may even change their own constitution to allow these sanctions and restrictions.
When all of this goes far enough, China will look like a free country in comparison.
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