“It feels like people are tired. And it feels like the PR for locking things down has more acceptance publicly than before.”
In 2012 a blacked-out Wikipedia homepage killed SOPA in a week. Now surveillance and censorship bills move through legislatures with barely a blip, because a decade of platform consolidation trained everyone to expect the internet to be locked down by somebody. The fatigue isn’t an accident. It’s what you get after years of being told centralization is safety. The fewer people who remember a decentralized web ever worked, the easier this gets for everyone pushing to close it off.