Everyone is focusing on the Maginot Line metaphor, and possible historical inaccuracies in what the author wrote. However, the important word from the title is not "Maginot", it's "Digital".
In reading the author's assessments of a wide range of topics, including free speech, digital militarization, and more, I found that there was actually quite a lot of valuable takeaways from their perspective, even for the reader that doesn't agree with 100% of the content.
However, if you are finding yourself roadblocked by the comparison to the Maginot Line, I encourage you to disregard this portion of the text and skip past it; the loss of the metaphor is not fatal to the rest of the content.
> War is a state of armed conflict between states, governments, societies and informal paramilitary groups, such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.
It's a war[0] for sure, only not led with physical armament[1], thus without an obvious "mortality" part, although I've seen people and relationships destroyed due to those underhanded manipulations[2]; but every single word in the definition applies to the current global situation in an immaterial and digital context, with economic, physical, and psychological casualties (from alteration/destruction of rational thinking to downright PTSD).
Democracy is being gradually infected, corrupted, exploited, and ultimately destroyed by the dwindling costs of propaganda through weaponisation of modern information channels.
In reading the author's assessments of a wide range of topics, including free speech, digital militarization, and more, I found that there was actually quite a lot of valuable takeaways from their perspective, even for the reader that doesn't agree with 100% of the content.
However, if you are finding yourself roadblocked by the comparison to the Maginot Line, I encourage you to disregard this portion of the text and skip past it; the loss of the metaphor is not fatal to the rest of the content.