Digital Freedom & Society.

It feels like the internet is tightening around you. Privacy is shrinking, speech is getting riskier, and more of your life is being pushed behind age checks, digital ID, and subscription access. This post connects the dots between censorship pressure, Chat Control debates, VPN and encryption pushback, and the rise of "own nothing" living, then gives you practical ways to push back without going off-grid.

Your phone costs more, does less, and the real upgrades happen far away in data centres. Here’s how subscriptions, AI, and the cloud shift ownership, privacy, and control.

Introduction to Millennials and Digital Control Today Growing up in the 1990s meant straddling two worlds: an analogue childhood and a digital coming-of-age. Now in adulthood, this generation (often called Millennials) is navigating a unique convergence of challenges. They entered an internet that promised freedom but evolved into something else entirely. They're trying to build lives amid economic conditions that seem harsher than those their parents faced. And they're exper