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Encryption. For the poors, that is.

Civillian use of Drones.

I'm very certain there's gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.

Liberty and privacy. And it will take way less than 50 years.

Dissent against the government.

Free expression, freedom of speech. Privacy. Home ownership.

Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.

Private ownership.
Why would you even want this, when you can book it as a service without all the hassles and this highly criminal "privacy". What are you? A drug dealer? A pedophile? Both?

Unlocking your bootloader

Emulators. There's a crack down that continues to happen as old systems become streaming services.

In the US: Not wholly illegal but I predict erosion of the 4th amendment under the guise of keeping the country safe. I predict the definition of a "reasonable" search and seizure will expand.

Across the world: as someone else mentioned, encryption is going to start getting a lot more attention as well.

Cash. Every transaction will be online, so it can be tracked

Dumping junk in space

Driving your own car.

But not in a good way. You’re expected to just die.

LGBTQ+

I'm not any of it, but I do support it.

If right-wing nutjobs keep running the government I am going to say "birth control" and "sodomy" are on the chopping block. Hopefully by 50 years this won't still be the issue but its what they want now. Just to note that the old "sodomy" laws made everything that wasn't PIV illegal. So if you like oral sex that will be illegal now. Sorry everyone no more fun

Living in an "unchristian" way in any form, be it being an atheist, LGBTQ+, etc.

protesting

FOSS running directly on metal

fingers crossed for child marriage becoming illegal (and in less than 50 years. the sooner the better)

Being trans, wait you said 50 years not 0.5? Haha lol we're so fucked

Mentioning climate change. Seems every government is backtracking on it.

The right to read.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

Certain food additives.

I would hope being rich, but I'm not counting on it.

A lot of activity on the Internet

Computers and phones that don't have locked bootloaders. You know how North Korean phones and computers alert the State every time a disallowed file is accessed or the user does something that doesn't align with The Ideology? It's going to be like that. Civilian ownership of machine tools will of course be banned on a "possession = incarceration" basis and not just banning sales. Air conditioning won't become all-out illegal but it will be regulated as rigorously as gun ownership in countries outside the US are, most people wont have lawful access to it anymore and the ones that do only get to cool things down to survivable temperatures and not comfortable temperatures. People will be running illegal refrigerant labs in their basement and making illegal thermostat modchips and everything.

There's no way the US isn't going to eventually criminalize all positive drug tests (like many other shithole countries have done including Japan, China and Singapore) once they reverse the last 40 years of marijuana reform and then punish everyone who had any part in it. Having been involved in the cannabis industry is going to be like having been a Jew in 1930s Germany. Same with being transgender, lgbt, or neurodivergent. It goes without saying that not being a maga christian will someday become a "get sent to a torture camp" offense as well. All porn will become as illegal as csam currently is. Cars won't actually get banned but the non elite class will lose access to them all the same because the government will enable corporations to continue colluding to do price fixing and generating fake scarcity. The lucky ones with prestigious State Approved science or military jobs may be able to petition to be allowed to buy one under government assistance (which is really just an unfairly priced loan in disguise) with a multi-year waiting list similar to how the car situation in the Soviet Union was. Driving rights will likely be tied to ideological alignment in some extent. At the very least, testing positive for nonphysoactive metaboltics of any banned substance will be treated the same as a dui but being lgbt, neurodivergent or non-christian may be also be punished the same as a dui becuase they'd argue it's "moral impairment" or some shit.

Voting for anyone outside of The Party during our fake elections will of course be a big no-no. The delusional decisions leading to all of this are also going to result in food shortages and mass starvation. People living in strategically important population centers may experience less hardship on average, just like in the Soviet Union. Of course toilet paper is a thing we'll all have to learn to live without sooner or later.

A long time ago learning skills like machining and chemistry while stockpiling guns and ammo would have been the thing to do but good people have become such a minority that I fear the best we can do is make the most of the time we have left before things get a lot harder and a lot less.. worthwhile.

Being queer 🫠

Republicans want to redefine transgenderism as "gender identity fraud". RFK wants to send neurodivergent people to labor camps. You do the math.

Owning real estate. Similar to being a “qualified investor” today

Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties

Negative: being remotely off grid in any way. Probably a symptom of me being British, but I fully expect there to be a point where we're required to be constantly tracked (location, what you consume, what you see, etc) in real time and it'll become a crime to evade it.

Modifying most things (cars, android ROMs, PCs, etc.) It is right now to an extent but it will probably get worse.