Much of what we hear about that place is pure, dystopian propaganda modeled off of Orwell’s work. It’s no surprise that the governments actually trying to create such living conditions are the UK and other Anglophone nations. Every year we descend further into hell.

The government wants untraceable, anonymous user profiles they can control and use for espionage, etc., but also wish to track every user who accesses the web.

They’re destroying their own tools as a trade off to control the population. (They feel weak and are worried about uprisings.) Soon enough the internet will require your digital ID for every website. At which point you might as well just get rid of your PC and smartphone and forget about the web entirely.

If the tracking is no longer a background phenomena you can avoid if you’re diligent, but instead you’re carded each time you use the web, then it’s no longer a free information system worth using.

They’re getting ready for civil unrest because they see a Great Depression on the horizon. Thank Trump and the Iran war for that. It’s going to take years for them to get global oil production back up and in the meantime they have no answer to a large population under increasing economic strain.