Sunday, 21 December 2025

The problem with pessimism is that it makes optimists of us all.

This is a short video (under three minutes long) reflecting on the extent to which internet censorship (on Google and Google-owned platforms) has actually gotten worse and worse, during a period of time in which it has been perceived to be getting better… because of this paradoxical problem of past pessimism making us unduly optimistic in the present tense.