I visit the IA quite often for various reasons, including the Wayback. I was very intrigued when I first saw this, but knew something was off. I feel someone that worked on it is probably leftist or left-leaning, but overall, as you said, it reeks of liberalism. The interactive timeline section seems to be the most fleshed-out part, and also the most interesting. Many of the points are not fictional, like the publisher lawsuit again the IA, the existence of conservative news monopolies, and school textbooks functioning as capitalist propaganda. A lot of what they warn about exists now. I had a good laugh that they think the U.S. would be some kind of bastion for the "free" internet, even after they are forced to move operations to Canada and start decentralizing. I expected more China bashing, but surprisingly it amounted to "the Great Firewall is a thing that exists." I suppose they don't really need more than that because of the existing anti-China brain rot. The funniest part is the end of the timeline being entirely about :1984: . Because why wouldn't it be.

If the future is as they say (and I would argue much of it is the present), I'm not sure there's much that can be done outside of what internet activists are already doing: FOSS and decentralization. The part they skipped completely, that is to some degree doomed under capitalism, is control of internet infrastructure. Fuck ISPs.