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...or exquisite venom!?

Makes me wonder how the squats were during the pre-internet days.

The anarcho-squat milieus have mostly collapsed during the spread of the internet worldwide, tho not sure if that was directly related. A parallel, with the onslaught of the global neoliberal regime, with its new techocracy of repression and urban redevelopment.

For sure, having no such thing as the internet around makes actual solidarity take a more f2f shape. A struggle like the ZAD, while being aided by internet comms, was largely based in irl networks across France and beyond. If, say, you're one person or a very tiny group starting an occupation in a city where this practice doesn't exist, you just can't count on the internet to attract new buddies to your place... that'd be way too dumb and would get you evicted after a few hours. That's why the few people doing that, well they just don't out anything about it on the net. As far as this is not "our" internet, it's always a weapon that can be turned against us.