Basically: Would you rather have like a year (or so) of your life being able to browse the internet unrestricted, but you have to live the rest of you life never having access to those thing ever again. And you cannot save anything, meaning: no datahoarding (except in your brain).
OR
Just never know about the free unrestricted internet in the first place?
(I personally would have trouble dealing with the FOMO)
If “unrestricted internet” means I have to listen to dumbfucks saying that drinking bleach cures COVID-19, racial, homophobic, or transphobic slurs, and misogynistic bullshit: No thanks. I’ve already lived through times where the Internet wasn’t even as moderated as it is today, and even today moderation is pretty fucking shit.
Pretty much 100% of the time anyone whines about being censored on the internet, it’s because they said some stupid shit and got thrown out of the bar.
I mean like a scenario where you were born in PRC.
You either choose to know about the western internet for 1 year, before the government figured out how to block your circumvention method forever. Or just never finding out about the western internet in the first place.
The FOMO about youtube, western media, etc.