Mirror’s Edge Communication Joke

There was a game called Mirror’s Edge, where, according to the plot, the government controls all means of communication. The only way to send messages without control is by delivering paper letters through special runners. I remember thinking: what nonsense, that could never happen.

A text-only meme recalls the plot of Mirror’s Edge, where a government controls all communication and runners deliver paper letters outside the system. The joke is that this fictional dystopia now feels plausible because of modern surveillance and communication control, so the narrator’s former disbelief looks naive.

• @deenya_md / 17697 2025-08-15