Well, I can tell you it's actually going that way. Britain is becoming more of a control state. My country (Denmark) is also skewing towards Digital ID and they just let the 27 other EU countries sign up to add Age Verification and Digital ID systems towards 2027-2028, and when we had the EU presidency last year and pushed forward the so-called "Chat Control" again our justice minister literally responded to backlash by saying "I think the time when people use End to End encrypted privacy needs to end."
Every country is moving towards the Chinese solution right now. A domestic firewall that blocks outside info, and VPN bans that makes it illegal and enforcable if you try to circumvent it, and get caught, which is enough to deter the majority of internet users.
And there's more huge changes coming to the global order with programmable money and other shit. The current war in Iran is already having the israelis out being like "So going forward you'll have to buy the oil through us." and what we see is just more federalization especially in europe, and therefore more centralization, and when power centralizes it takes.
Either it's Big Tech corporations turning themselves into kingdoms, or it's governments working to "digitalize" thus turning the very internet we all use into a new control grid, where rules are digitally detected and enforced through face-scan technology and cashless digital money that is 24/7 surveilled. My private bank already has AI-flagging, so I've had my credit card closed twice for trying to buy games from Play Asia, because they don't use Digital ID verification, which I can only transact for by disabling "Trusted Transactions" in the app. That means any time I'm outside of "Trusted", there's AIs scanning my transactions for patterns, and they apparently flagged Play Asia as a suspicious site, so I had to call the bank (twice) and ask them to reopen my credit card. My only method to ensure this doesn't happen again is to only use payment sites that do a Digital ID scan before the transaction.
This is happening in real time, and it's trickling and trickling everywhere, and the roadmap to 2030 is much worse than what we've already seen. If people don't genuinely protest and make change, we're all going to be so locked into digital control systems by 2030 that you can't really escape it.
