BREAKING: While We Watched Musk and LA, Trump Redefined the Internet
Executive Order from 6 June quietly transforms the internet into a tool of regime control, building-in immunity for Big Tech.
What we’ll cover here:
Executive Order: Sustaining Select Efforts To Strengthen The Nation’s Cybersecurity
The cloud is no longer neutral
What this Executive Order does
The authoritarian internet
Dear friends
On 28 May, in response to a post that asked "Now that Elon is on the way out, who will be Trump’s ringleader?" I responded:
"Respectfully... I think the questions we should be asking ourselves are:
Now that Musk’s on his way out, what’s he doing with all that data DOGE stole?
Why is Musk building Colossus, the world’s biggest super-computer?
What part could Grok AI play in all of this?"
Now, we may have the answers.
As I wrote in my last post, on Friday — while the world watched Trump’s feud with Elon Musk and the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles — the White House released six new Executive Orders. Four of these EOs lay the foundation for the complete consolidation of state-aligned, tech-enabled authoritarian power.
I then wrote about the three orders that reshape American air…
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