"closure of the Internet occurred in two distinct phases: 2015-2019 and 2020-2022. Almost all of the technical & organizational infrastructure and conceptual justifications were built out in the first phase, which successfully decapitated & destroyed the previously-independent, but by definition fringe, online ecosystem of ideas. In the second phase, the same weapons that previously targeted heterodox online discourse were turned against opposition to the COVID measures du joure & mainstream…