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All I can say is good luck. I hope he's right.

But if you think that all it takes is a desire for freedom to subvert tyranny, you misread history. Does anyone think the problem in the middle ages, or the USSR, or the American slave plantations, was that the oppressed didn't yearn for freedom? It isn't that easy.

This is about the balance of power. When the power is concentrated in a few hands, it doesn't matter what the majority wants.

On the optimistic front, technology is itself empowering. I fully believe a free, decentralized and encrypted internet will emerge as soon as the governments of the first world implement the real, stifling censorship they seem to be dead set on. Of course, if it were that easy, why hasn't it already happened in China and Iran? Then I go back to being pessimistic again. Either way, it is fun to watch and participate in this struggle for freedom that seems to define our times.