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I was watching the movies "Steal this movie" and it's sequel "Steal this movie 2" and a quote from one of the people in the movie made me think:
"The only way that corporations are going to be able to control the internet is if they tear it all down and rebuild it with the control measures in place. The gene is out of the bottle." I was thinking about the Matrix and both the first and second crash of the Matrix. The first crash is a deliberate attempt to do what is stated above. The mega-corps moved in quickly to establish a very rigid and highly controlled 3D network of computers. But over time their power became more and more decentralised and as a result the mega-corps started to lose their control to groups like the Otaku, pirates, shadowrunner deckers, AI, and rouge political entities like Winternight. A massive reset was needed again (enter crash 2.0). This time though the mega-corps looked to hide their power as they feel that the failure of Matrix 1.0 was due to the in your face controls used by all the mega-corps. The idea was more like the Matrix from the movie, where if you enslave the true control of the people but leave the illusion of free will intact then you maintain power but quell resistance that will bring down the machine. Small fires will erupt from time to time but they can be easily controlled by directing mass opinion towards the new system. People will fight to keep the control in the hands of the mega-corp. "They will not be able to be unplugged". Enter the anti-technomancer movement. Technomancers (like the Otaku before them) are a threat to mega-corp profits, and control. The mega-corps must turn public opinion against this threat at every cost and they must use every resource at their disposal to destroy (ie kill) this threat. This gets me to my two campaign ideas: 1. The "Fight the man" campaign:
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