The scale has been moved to a different level since the rise of internet communication beyond FidoNet.

Sounds like you’re on a great path!
Regarding email: have you considered getting your own domain and having emails associated with that domain hosted at a nice place?

Until they get broken up (if ever) you can reduce their power by avoiding them as best you can.

Goodbye, information era.
Welcome, manipulation era!
I know… we’ve been in the latter for some time.

I feel like this belongs here: Massive leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security workers—including undercover ICE agents

But can they even leave orderly without a passport?
Or do they have to flee on, say a small boat, at the risk of being blown to smithereens?