So far, I've tried to be very sparing in my use of scare tactics to encourage action, because being scared without a concrete plan of action is how people get worked into a frenzy and jump into an extreme situation that they can't reasonably sustain or even control. However, now having written guides on how to use a computer, hoard data, and de-phone your life, I feel that now is the time to remind everyone that this is the nightmare scenario. Donald Trump is quite likely our forever-president and, for the moment at least, Elon Musk is Trump's right-hand man. The democrats and republicans alike seem to agree that Project 2025 should go ahead as planned, and personal privacy is about to become a fairy story.
You might be reading this and thinking, "I'm [insert nationality here], nothing America does will affect me at all." The United States claims digital sovereignty over the entire world in the name of "national security". Even if your country is staunchly, vocally opposed to complying with the United States intelligence-gathering attempts, spies and informants still exist. Outstanding intelligence-sharing treaties exist between the United States and virtually every country in the world, via Five Eyes-like agreements. While generically stated to be used as a counterintelligence measure against China and Russia, the framework can be used more broadly to silence dissent and enforce morality.
Spotify deplatformed Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in order to elevate Joe Rogan's anti-vaccine rhetoric at the height of the COVID-19 scare. Facebook rewrote their terms of service to explicitly allow abuse against women, the disabled, and transgender people. Google's CEO quite literally stood behind Trump at his inauguration. Twitter's CEO helped fix the election in Trump's favour and is currently spearheading a movement to erase all but cisgender, straight, white people from America's workforce. Samsung and Apple caved under pressure from Trump's DEI investigations. We already discussed how Google and Microsoft are policing documents generated with their software for immoral content and locking accounts where it's found. We already discussed how Windows 11 trains its AI models on all your files and sells data it thinks there could be a profit in. We already discussed how Google does that, too.
In other words, the framework for the automated enforcement of Project 2025 and its international workalikes is already in place on nearly every privately-owned electronic device in the world. Even if you're not a USAmerican, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and everyone I've already mentioned are multi-national. A policy change from Facebook will affect all Facebook users, not just the American ones. When Google silently opts everyone into a morality enforcement app, it affects all Android users, not just the American ones. Do you get it? It's not just Americans who are in danger here, it's everyone.
At this point, it is absolutely essential that you de-phone, get a Linux-enabled computer on your desk, and stop using Google products and all forms of social media. It's time to stop using home assistants and doorbell cameras. This is no longer just something to look into later and then never look into it, you must do this or risk losing your privacy to the corporate feudal state forever.
Fortunately, the entire Americanisation process hinges on a single point of failure: people being too uninformed to realise that free and open-source alternatives to all the corporate software does, in fact, exist and in most cases will work better than the widely-accepted corporate spyware version. The corporate feudal state is starting to feel threatened by FOSS at this stage, as they've seen the same thing that I have. So, the solution to swaying the minds of the unthinking consumer base safely back into their pockets: unleash a veritable army of social media influencers to slander free software. This has already happened with LibreOffice, Audacity, Linux Mint, and certainly the entire institution of computer-based game console emulation. They paint it as fraudulent, criminal, full of malware, confusing, complicated, and just straight-up bad, and then sit back and watch the cattle stream back into the abattoir.
There's no secret to maintaining your privacy, it's just a matter of doing it. Power your phone completely off when you don't absolutely need it. Use your computer to load websites instead of using mobile apps. Stop using Google for anything at all. Overwrite Windows 11 with Linux Mint. All it takes is a couple of minutes to preserve your personal privacy, and you don't even have to leave this website to learn how!