explodicle
Maybe it's not done yet. The Arab Spring demonstrated that Twitter was a threat. The powers that be have effectively destroyed Twitter as an organizing tool. Now we have Mastodon.
It might take more than a few decades for humans to fully adapt to the internet hazards we were warned about in the 1990s and forgot by the 2020s.
The worst part is that you're describing an actual real conspiracy that they won't believe.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
— T.S. Eliot
— Michael Scott
Maybe we haven't heard of successful attempts because it's like when ants get stuck in a loop.
Crypto is only good for money laundering on a small scale, like illegal drug websites. Once one gets to hundreds of millions, everything is much more tightly regulated and hard to use anonymously.
Get ready for your apartment to be owned by a "DAO" that's not decentralized at all, but that claim goes unchallenged by the state.
And heaven forbid they leave Zion and come to Florida.
Here in California we have high deposits and I never see cans left unattended for long. $0.05 is nothing in this economy.
[Pokes voodoo doll of stock market]
Some people have less free time than you do and the convenience is worth it to them.
My wife and kids have a clue - they just tell me to download it. The little ones will learn their piracy lessons on coffee shop wifi, not at our home.