politics/2026-07-17
FILE 00114KThe Regime Is a Channel
Amin inherited the most powerful broadcast network in Africa and ruled through it. The one movement that outlasted him inside Uganda's borders survived on a discipline that sounds almost too small to matter: it refused to listen, and it kept its own channel. The second essay in a series on the Stratford authoritarianism lectures, and an argument that encryption, self-hosted media, and bearer money are not conveniences. They are the infrastructure you build while the timer is still running.
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