Just a quick notice and alert to highlight some common technological ‘glitches’ and occurrences that are appearing around the internet, coincidentally timed as a result of the pending 2022 midterm election.
By now everyone is familiar with Big Tech control mechanisms like blocking, shadow banning, downgrading and throttling.
Essentially, these are methods within the technology space that are designed to influence opinion and block access to information and communication adverse to the ideology of the provider(s).
Most often we associate those terms with social media platforms; however, within the infrastructure of the internet itself the same intent is also carried in various forms you might not be familiar with. I am seeing a lot of deployed control systems triggered recently, it is worth mentioning in case you notice something different.
Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) are increasingly directing your background internet travels and blocking you from access to content they define as against their interest. Major players in the field of providing online access (comcast, Xfinity, AT&T, etc.) as well as regional operators also have a vested ideological stake. If you find yourself having difficulty navigating the internet, especially during this election season, be aware the ISP provider could be in control.
Cell phone communication networks also have the ability to control data transmitted through their systems. Text messages containing links to unapproved or dissident websites can be blocked by code and algorithms assigned to monitor traffic. Phone browsers and portable internet hot spots may also be controlled by the provider. You may not be aware, but your agreement with your cell phone provider gives them the ability to filter data on your device according to their individual standard.
Again, just be aware.
Browsers are also major players in the field of filtering information and controlling user behavior. It could be as subtle as an image or link not appearing for you, or it could be total blocking of traffic to website destinations they have defined as adverse to their interests. Large activist organizations provide lists of websites and content to feed into the filtration system. Just be aware your browser may indeed be controlling your content and as a result controlling your perspective.
The obvious issues with internet search engines (google, duck-duck etc.) are well documented, however increasingly Apps and authorized software additions to your devices come with mechanisms to control what information may be visible to you. This is where the terms “disinformation”, “misinformation” and “malinformation” become useful tools to justify the interception and blocking of your activity.
Sometimes the network may provide a warning or pop-up in their effort to stop you from reaching the information they want to control, but increasingly it just happens in the background, and you have no idea. This is one of the unspoken benefits in the “cookie” system. In addition to providing direct advertising experiences based on your browsing history, you as a user, may be identified as a dissident voice and assigned a label within the same cookie identification process.
Most people who use the internet have no idea a unique label has been assigned to them in the virtual space. Those labels can be grouped together and contained within the control systems of cyberspace.
Increasingly the techfiltration process has become a Staziesque public-private partnership. You can well imagine what happens when the people in control of technological systems have an ideological mission to shape public opinion, simultaneous with the government people who define dis-mis-and malinformation delivering requests from the FBI and DHS to the technological partners who control the techfiltration process.
The bottom line, just be aware that information you may choose to access, research or share, is heavily controlled by the providers you select to facilitate your online information and communication networks. You are likely right now blocked from accessing information and have no idea it’s happening.
If you cannot reach a website, see an image, view a page, or navigate a system, it’s likely not anything you are doing wrong; most often it’s the result of a tech control system designed to keep you away from the data. Additionally, valid information like emails or text messages are increasingly identified as spam or blocked completely by the email or cell phone service you have subscribed to.
All of this is just an fyi, because I happen to notice these types of curious conversations taking place with increased frequency right now. Lots of people are wondering why they cannot access or see things. These are likely not ‘glitches.’
All the best,
Comrade & Dissident, Sundance
“Those labels can be grouped together and contained within the control systems of cyberspace.”
Not only labeled, but tracked.
https://summit.news/2022/10/26/us-citizens-were-tracked-via-secret-covid-decree-violation-scores/
Literally will not allow me access to this site.
Do NOT use any mail tool that uses Microsoft to filter viruses… they also modify links in your email…
Do not use any free mail servers.
Do not use any mail servers provided by social media (*) or your service provider.
Remember, friends don’t let friends use Outlook for their personal use.
If you can, get your own domain name and pay some one to host it. It is not expensive and they are much less likely to mess around with your data… sure, you have to learn how to manage it, but that’s the cost of freedom.
For mail tool, I use Thunderbird. It seems to work fine and it connects nicely to my own mail server over the internet.
VPNs and encryption are your friends.
Give Thor a chance.
The new Right Social Media seems to be doing things much better.
The trick, is to VPN/encrypt through your ISP and the Internet.
You know, it really pisses me off. The US is now using the same techniques that China developed over the last 20 years.
But, remember, you don’t need no stinking fancy html graphics… we can always go back to the good old CLI, with encrypted mail lists. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe just go back to using IP addresses. DNS is just a nicety… and with multimode comms you could do things like distribute a rotating IP ADDR via a text list or something like that… it will be very hard to beat such a complex communication beast… just about impossible to automate the filters.
My favorite White Russian Military info Summary site in Rumble could not be loaded last night… oddly, I was able to see it in YoTube. Figure that one out.. someone really hosed. And, yeah, the info had not been messed around.
For I am root. Fear me.
I believe we will soon see that the United States and its private Corporations, developed the social credit platform model. Then it was sold to China to study reaction, effect, risk, and enhancements on an already abused and subjected peoples. New improved model coming soon to a cyber square near you?
The United States paid China to develop a fatal illness to meet the needs of throwing Donald Trump out of office. Like always, the cheap Chinese version was subpar with no real ability to kill other than the old and already sick. So they pretended it was totally lethal anyway.
Solution? USA develops its own Covid 19 virus with 80% mortality. Coming soon to a public square near you?
These are only two of the horrific attacks against Americans, as well as formerly free Western Nations.
I am very surprised that all of a sudden my ISP, COX, is stopping some of my messages that are going out to my address book and returning them to me with a message that I don’t understand! Worrisome.
How do i take Safari off my iPhone? It blocks a lot. I have tried to do it in settings, but no luck. Can you tell me how to do this in settings? Thank you in advance.
Go to library sales, flea markets, and yard sales in affluent areas. Try to find an older encyclopedia set and dictionary (mine’s from 1964.) I’ve also scored some fabulous, out-of-print history books. The internet is definitely in purge mode.
Yes…if you have grandchildren there will be a day when those encyclopedias will be the only truth.
I’m collecting old books.
We have a wonderful bookstore here…Half Price Books. One could spend days in there and not be through a fraction of what is on their shelves. A real treasure trove of every type of book imaginable. History, art, music, reference books, etc.
One find for me was a portfolio book of everything Norman Rockwell ever painted, including all his sketches with notes and history…not a history book per se of course. But it is a pictorial history of a time long past I’m sure each one of us yearns for. It is an immense volume and exceedingly large…I snapped it up for just a few dollars. It is in mint condition.
If there is one of these bookstores near…it’s not just a one of but seems to have different locations…I’d suggest a visit to dig in. Very much worth it.
I’m just gonna add that local libraries get book donations from folks like me, who were moving OUT of California and needed to downsize, or from the estates of the deceased; I was lucky enough to live in a town with lots of veterans in the higher ranks who collected books (and could afford to do so and had shelves in large houses on which to put them) on the military, on history, and on military history, among many varied interests. Each library sale had a different focus (depending upon who had moved or died), though the largest section was always the pulp fiction/crime/romance novels. The local library often doesn’t have the room (much of it now given over to computers and such) to put these books on the shelf, and so sell them to get [more computers, or higher salaries; I let you choose which is more important to them]. I used to buy books by the box (ie-beer-case box) for about $3 (prob higher now, maybe up to $5? $7? Don’t know; I moved, remember?) and it was literally my personal “reading for a year” (never more, though sometimes less). The boxes were allowed to ‘overflow’ with books, come time for payment.
I also support the local used bookstores wherever I find them. All for good reason. Some are better than others.
And there’s no way I give up my old dictionaries (1956? and threadbare though they may be!) with the true defs of words like “vaccine”, for instance, among other words that have been politically-changed in recent times for all-to-obvious reasons.
Typically I can get to sites if I search thru DuckDuckGo. But in some cases the result order is “wrong”…for example, when I search for instapundit the first result is page 2. And often the results include some baloney sausage wikipedia entry or another opinion site telling you that the site you want is not “trustworthy”.
It’s ridiculous trying to get to tThe Gateway Pundit. Tech hates them.
Eh, the Hoft brothers do that to themselves by publishing like a juxtaposed version of CNN.
Their priorities are, propaganda, vacuuming users data, and prioritizing advertising over content loading.
Get a good ad blocker, deny their cookies, you’ll have less problems.
TMobile 5G ISP, Apple iOS, Bravo search. Type in “theg……” and I’m into TGP. Ditto “thecon……” TCTH. ”
Online History loads ’em in a flash. I click the WiFi preferred network once in 10 days, shut it off, wait 45 seconds, click it on. Figured out the interruption to the ISP resets the IP address. Each time I click out and back on the password protected sites always ask for my User Name and Password. An inconvenience.
I also don’t belong to a single social site. Not one. Ever. Had a credit card hacked in a restaurant one time, no online hacks. What I find missing are today’s, the current, most recent, video’s on YouTube for Christian Conservative news sites.
The workaround has been to subscribe directly to receive an email. No middleman. Close YouTube or whatever third party offers a link. Open a new tab, go directly to the site, check the address in the address bar, if it says TGP then subscribe on the site, to the site. I get emails from TGP once a day. I don’t get any ever from TCTH. Blocked?
Click subscribe on YouTube for the numbers game but YouTube won’t, will not, don’t wait for it, never has, never will notify of new posts; you have to go to YouTube and click Subscriptions. But now YT is it’s own filter of your search. Check the dates of the posts….last week, one month ago, 1 year ago.
TITTB. Take It To The Bank.
It’s why it’s easier to just type: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com
Using Brave search and Firefox browser I type in “gateway pundit” and it comes up 2nd on the list after wikipedia.
I use Brave Browser, and qwant search…..just plugged in “gateway pundit” first site was an ad by qwant, identified as an ad. the next was “Thegatewaypundit.com
Dropped Firefox when they ousted there CO several years ago for contributing to a conservative politician. That told me ALL I needed to NO
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https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianCatesRTNM/status/1585521057666146304?cxt=HHwWgIC9oYzA84AsAAAA
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This is quite interesting. I thought the sink was more than a silly gimmick!
throwing out everything but the kitchen sink…..
That would be Utopia. But we all know the 4th Branch of gubment would never let that happen.
I don’t understand how having one account to jump back and forth would be better. It makes tracking “one” of something easier than 10’s.
How does this better enable free speech? Open source allows people to see the code. But who says that’s the code running their programs and servers? All can be hidden.
Maybe I’m missing something.
Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings – Brave com and search engine
I switched. Learned of it here. They were out of date which proved costly to me in one incident. Somehow they updated after I spent my time and gas. So I went back to the double O ranch. Not happy about it but honestly I have no way to determine if I go to one of these claiming no tracking, no history keeping – for all I know those are super tracking sites. I just have to take the savvy say so of people here.
Could that be why Rumble videos would not play on my computer a while back but youtube videos would? I still don’t get sound on any videos that play on this site, the video plays but no sound. If I find the same video on a different site it plays just fine video and sound. Could this be why.
If I use Brave on this site no sound but if I use Firefox I get sound on this site.
WTF?
I use Brave, I get video and sound. Check your settings for media in Brave specifically sound.
I get video and sound from CTH youtube links using Brave.
You may have a browser setting interfering with Rumble. If you are trying to use Chrome to access Rumble switch browsers. Google owns Chrome and Youtube, Rumble is a Youtube competitor.
V. Putin has given several very important speeches in the last few days. They are being blocked on the primary search hosts. Important to remember if the government can pay the news (MSM) to push the pandemic and vaccine what makes us think they stopped with that and aren’t carrying on with the Ukraine War and midterms?
Check thesaker.is for Putin speeches. They are likely to have a direct link, plus a translation of the transcript.
VPN called proton is the best, out of Switzerland
All this tech is BEYOND me. As a sad little yuck chuckle…..
I was at my ex-husband’s house and needed to access my email for work. I used his computer with my yahoo address.
I checked my email and logged off.
Since then, on MY own computer 4 states away, different modem, etc; I’m getting emails from women wanting to hook up!!
3 months now trashing every gross offer in the world from my in box.
All supposed women to me, a woman. Total garbage.
I really hate this stuff. I wouldn’t even have a cell
if not for connecting with kids and grands.
Just some real world aggravation from a non-tech person.
PS. Obviously I think I know what he’s been browsing for this stuff to be connected to me through HIS computer. YUCK
Naaah . . . . maybe not. My husband only has a phone cuz it’s cheaper than a diabetes monitor but when I go to clean his phone I find that those girls have found him too. (He’s legally blind so they’re wasting their time.). I have acquired a physical attribute that I’m not happy about and I didn’t talk about it but I did take a picture with my phone in the bathroom mirror after removing clothing. Now I get daily commercials for help with it. It’s not helpful because it’s a medical problem needing a medical solution and it’s super creepy that the technology invades my private space like that, unasked, uninvited and unwanted. So please give him the benefit of the doubt and just let yourself free of the thought.
It seems big tech, including the big ISPs, is just doing what it must for the puppet-master administrative deep-state. What would happen to ATT, for example, if they didn’t play ball?
In Illinois recently, ATT was caught attempting to bribe state officials to get favorable rule-making on their wireline network. ATT’s punishment was to pay yet another bribe (fine) to get off the prison hook for its executives. The first bribe got you in trouble, the second bribe bought your freedom.
The Feds could have played this much different, but they didn’t. Likely many reasons why, but ATT is an obedient foot-soldier for the deep-state. If they weren’t, they would have gotten the “Enron Treatment”.
This time around…It aint going to work – Dominos pizza commercial – constant reminder of high gas prices…Everytime they fill up at the pump – paying for electric – Getting a mortgage or refinancing at a higher rate – Paying for college and then getting kicked in the ass because the government is forgiving 20,000 of it… Paying for food – clothing – Trying to get your car fixed and wating months for the parts to come in – Trying to go to work only to find you are now on a date with the 3rd rail – Covid Lies – lock downs – 25 day supply of diesel fuel left – Empty Shelves – Seniors can;t stay in their homes…the list goes on and on –
Some of the supply shortages are permanent, most will eventually be permanent. If it is not made on this continent or South America, you need a new supplier.
“Mr. Ritchie Havens” 1969, at significant event…Drill it into your psyche everyday.
and try this for sound…
Thanks Sundance, I have noticed issues with some sites I visit infrequently. I have not noticed issues with CTH, Zerohedge, USAWatchdog, Bannon’s Rumble. I use Brave browser. I leave all the shields up. I never sign on to gmail, microsoft, google, youtube in Brave. I use Chrome to access gmail, google, youtube subscriptions, Android functions. I do not try to read my news outlets with Chrome or Microsoft Edge. I get weather and solitaire through microsoft. I do access some youtube links through Brave. I have recently added Gonzalo Lira and Tom Luongo to my Brave quick links. I use Brave’s search engine with Brave’s browser. I use Google’s search engine with Chrome browser. I do get different results from searches depending on the search engine. I use Microsoft’s Bing with Edge browser. I used to have Firefox as my main browser for internet reading, but, Brave is much faster.
(I can’t call what we currently have a government) So, basically, the criminal cabal has control over all ISPs, media, social and unsocial, and everything in between.
We have become a science fiction novel.
I think that those of us who have been profiled as potential whistleblowers or immune to social pressure have been bullied or framed out of our positions and they are correct. Part of me wishes that I could have evaded their radar and been a hero but another part of me is grateful that I didn’t have to go there and do that. I’ve always said that I am grateful for the heroes who have allowed me to be middle of the road but I am always aware that I may still have my opportunity in this life.
Well, that explains some issues that I have been experiencing when trying to open some websites.
It sounds like they have all the infrastructure in place for a full communist takeover. Complete control over the first amendment.
Good advice, but I’m so sick of this here.
In the realm of big tech, I count nothing as coincidence so when I have a text exchange with my daughter about luggage when she is preparing to take a trip, and the ads for luggage pop up on my computer in the sites I frequent, I can’t help but think of BIG BROTHER is real – life imitating art.
Wolverines! Switch to Signal for texts, Brave for browser and searches, Proton Mail for emails.
Only downside to Proton mail is that most emails from friends who use Proton end up in the spam folder. I now have a routine of checking my spam folder every day.
The matrix will try to protect itself.
This is a great interview by Tucker Carlson. It’s Dr. Robert Epstein who PROVES Google is manipulating public opinion. He’s been looking into this since 2013.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jcjQnjCmH4uM/
I tried to “open in new tab in group.” It won’t.
“Hey, Big Brother!”
Hope the coming Tsunami wipes it away,… vote like it may not,… to be sure.
Great advice Sundance. Thanks
Sandance, check this:
I go to some sites famously deplorable, like GP, gates of vienna, and others. I do it on wifi (spectum) and the site hangs and wont load. Then I switch off the wifi, reverting to cellular data(att), and voila, the site loads. I have been toggling back and forth to see different sites. Your insights are welcome and explanatory. (The loads dont always fail, but they are putting in frictions for sure)
I have a paid subscription to FOX Nation and I have not been able to log into that account since August and I have not found a tech on their side that has been able to help me fix it. the husband designs and fixes websites, he fixes Mac computers, we have tried EVERYthing. Last fix resulted in rep giving us a free 2 year discount code and we tried to sign up using a different email address and now the website won’t even load. I wonder if anyone else is having difficulties with Fox — We both really want to see some of Tucker Carlson’s reports.
Odd you mentioned this as I did not initially see this article when visiting the Treehouse. I only became aware of it via the feedblitz emails I receive for being signed up. But I must admit, this is not the first time it occurred.
Yesterday I was in hospital and it was time for me to leave so I needed to call my ride. The calls went through but the connection so horrible that the calls couldn’t be completed. Being short beds the nurse had overheard and made the call for me from the desk landline. Shortly thereafter a message popped up on my phone stating that I needed to sign into the hospital wifi in order to make a successful cell call. (Clearly the nurse didn’t know this.) Since the nurse had not reported back I signed in and verified with my ride that her message had been
received. I didn’t get a chance to read the hospital terms of use carefully as it was a rush situation but I was bothered that they get access to everything and I failed to see when that access ends.
When I clicked Sundance’s article on the third quarter “+2.6% GPD” post, my laptop screen brought up code symbols rather than the article. That has never before occurred. Be afraid–be very afraid. OR prepare accordingly.
Nazi Totalitarianism – Communist Totalitarianism – Technocratic Totalitarianism. Full Stop.