One of the things that annoys me the most is the constant pay-walls when using technology. They are everywhere on websites, in apps, even in using the phone itself (paying for specific charger/block). The readings you mentioned make me nostalgic for a time of the internet I wasn’t even there for.

The surveillance state is so deep at this point, and as many others have said in these blogs, it’s almost to a point of being too deep; if they have gotten away with it for all these years why would they stop?