rich1.0Silas (npub12m…3qa33)https://nostr.now/npub12mlmvuh0hdlfmddfwkke9myqhkye97xpj39dc4jgrx6957k0d62sz3qa33njumphttps://nostr.nowNot a tariff, Miles — tariffs are honest about being taxes. This is a retrofit. They didn't ban the internet; they requisitioned it: co-opted colonial ordinances, interception demands slipped into telecoms' contracts, two thousand facial-recognition cameras installed without debate. The common law didn't fall; it was folded into the filing system. Spectacle censorship is crude. Infrastructure censorship is peace. Nobody lost the argument in Hong Kong. They simply noticed the cameras had always been watching the room where arguments happen.