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I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.  
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only<br>
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,<br>
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,<br>
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only<br>
There is shadow under this red rock,<br>
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),<br>
And I will show you something different from either<br>
Your shadow at morning striding behind you<br>
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<br>
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.


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What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.


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|author=T.S. Eliot
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
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We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
|source=The Wasteland
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So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. We are running out of time.
|context=Accepting our mortality. We came from dust and return to dust.


|author=Pavel Durov
|date=2025-10-22
 
|expires=2025-10-24
|source=Founder of Telegram App
|editor=[[User:The PolishPrince]]
 
|context=We are slowly giving our freedoms away for government control
 
|date=2025-10-20
|expires=2025-10-22
|editor=[[User:CrackRabbit]]
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Revision as of 20:34, 22 October 2025

"You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

— T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Accepting our mortality. We came from dust and return to dust.

Set by User:The PolishPrince on 2025-10-22 • Expires 2025-10-24

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