The guy from the past, who is familiar with 20th century dictators' methods, gets them to set up a program to brainwash the masses into emigration to Venus, and then they build fake spacecraft that don't go very far but the passengers don't return, and they send letters home saying everything is great (inspired by the Nazis sending fake letters from euthanasia victims).

The end is when he thinks he's on top of the world and essentially world dictator, but the people that he was advising politely force him onto one of the "spaceships" because his job "thinking outside the box" is finished and they have no more use for him.

It is pretty weird that according to capitalists liberation is defined by the ability to exclude others from society.

You're sitting in your virtual bedroom, and your virtual laptop doesn't like or allow your choice of porn, or any other subject of interest.

You're in your virtual work shop, and your virtual bench and tools do not approve of the device you are building, or taking apart.

You're sewing a virtual dress and your virtual sewing machine doesn't allow you to make that design because it violates community standards, maybe by cultural appropriation, not that it tells you why...

No community established those standards, so the term is a lie, but your virtual telephone doesn't let you bring this complaint against the owners of the universe to anyone.

Taken a bit further, when you are uploaded, and the owners of the universe even own the medium you think in.