IIT HAD BEEN A LONG brutal war. Allies shifted sides, new allegiances brokered.
At the end, the politicians, government bureaucrats, and their media cronies were banned underground. And the rest of us learned to live in a watchful peace.
It began with the simple revolt. People started reclaiming their privacy. That meant they dumped their smart-phones and social media accounts. Next came any broadcast news and “entertainment”. People hated ads and started to show it. No one watched anything that was broadcast. It became all on-demand, ad-free.
Dumb-phones became preferred. Via a local land-link using local-only Wi-Fi. And triangulating locations or accessing via GPS was made illegal.
At first, the bi-coastal Geek-Corps were against this. Because it threatened their business model. But
