When CTH outlined the connection between DHS and Twitter in Jack’s Magic Coffee shop, many people thought it was nuts.
In the year since, DHS and FBI have been evidenced to have direct access to Twitter content controls, up to and including access code in the Twitter algorithm itself. Not so crazy anymore.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, CTH warned to refrain from forming opinion of the takeover because of the DHS network with it. Either Musk did due diligence in the purchase and was aware of DHS attachment, or Musk didn’t know of the scale of DHS involvement. Both possibilities painted a rather odd perspective of the Musk motive.
The latest development upon the new Twitter platform, includes Twitter no longer permitting Substack authors to promote their articles. “Twitter is now blocking likes, retweets, and comments on tweets that include a link to a Substack newsletter. In addition, Twitter users cannot pin a tweet that includes a Substack link to their profile.” Apparently, Twitter views the growth of Substack as a business threat.
Unfortunately, that leaves a Substack author like Matt Taibbi in a tough position; especially because he is one of the lead independent journalists highlighting the findings within a review of Twitter’s prior corporate correspondence and networking with DHS officials, also known as “the Twitter files.” As a result, Taibbi was forced to choose between Twitter and Substack. His decision, below:
Is Substack like Twitter?
It will be soon – that’s the new “Notes” feature that Elon is mad about.
But don’t u ou have to pay to use it?
You do not have to pay to use it. The writer does not have to pay. The reader or subscriber can choose to pay for certain paywalled posts. Most Substack writers include both free content and paid content for subscribers.
Thank you for that explanation. 👍
Also, a lot of people that were thrown of twitter moved over to Substack, found that they could write more than the limited characters twitter allowed and it’s grown from there.
Most of its free
Some authors give free acces, others require subscripcion (usually $50 a year), or free reading but need to subscribe to comment.
Try it … The Substack universe is rich with excellent writers and thinkers. For me, its like smorgasbord.
When you decide who you like, you can and SHOULD support them financially. $5/month. We should be willing to support those who go out on a limb and spread the truth.
I agree about supporting the writers we agree are excellent. I wish one subscription would access a specific number of writers (not all since some we might not want to support) so that we could get a discount and only have to shell out once a year. Not sure that it could be easily manage on the writers’ or Substack’s side.
Why don’t you write them and ask if they could offer something like that??
Myself, I can support about 8 writers simultaneously. If I find myself reading a certain one often, I feel obligated to support him/her. If it’s just once a month, then I don’t.
who owns substack?
Substack is a place to publish blogs, like WordPress. I don’t know what this new feature is.
Someone I follow just moved from WordPress to Substack due to editorial demands WordPress was making. No paywall or anything.
Substack is awesome. Writers post articles / podcast episodes / videos and Substack emails them to subscribers – some subscribers pay to read paywalled posts, other subscribers read only the free posts. Substack takes a fee from paid subscribers. So as a platform – it’s super easy for the writer and the writer doesn’t have to “manage” an email list through a separate platform like constant contact. I absolutely love it and it’s a brilliant business model. Win for the writer, win for the company. My Substack is titled Get Your Book Seen and Sold. I share book marketing information / interviews / podcasts /videos
The censors came after Substack a few months ago, tried to shut it down … But it’s still there and growing. There’s something for everybody.
Great explanation, thank you.
Don Surber has moved to Substack. Google was censoring his daily (nic Sunday) posts for telling the truth.
You can follow him at a cost (he’ll keep you sane) or you can pay to help him out (and buy that RR).
You can follow Don for free (I do). Paid subscribing gives you access to post comments. Free sub’s can still read and “like” comments.
Substack is really growing fast
It gives writers a fighting chance and a way for readers to easily find writing on the topics they are most interested in. The community among writers is also pretty great. They have community session on Thursdays where writers can ask questions and share ideas. I have found several guests for my podcast on it and have learned how to use the platform a bit better.
I hear the upcoming “Notes” feature will be really good.
Kind of. It’s a blog vice microblog site and without woke baggage
IT’S BETTER!!!
So what social media sites are recommended??
Truth Social (Trump’s platform) is conservative. It’s interactive like Twitter (I think, don’t use it).
Substack has expert blogs/writers/publishers on everything, zero censorship. It’s interactive in comments like here, but the “Notes” is the first attempt at social/Twitter-esque discorse. This is my go-to because it’s civil, respectful, and the publications are almost always well thought out and far less emotional/attack/name-calling like Twitter gets. Comments are also where a lot of the gold is.
Telegraph has a lot of uncensored content. It’s always mentioned by prominent accounts as an alternative place to find content if top 3 type social media bans it.
Rumble is a well-financed, mostly uncensored YouTube competitor. Dan Bongino is an investor. Very low onsite engagement compared to YT and others, but the videos will remain forever and not be censored.
Really depends on what content and interaction you want under what circumstances.
Does Musk even know? His twitter thread for the last few days is full of Space X launches.
I suspect there are still DHS moles inside Twitter blocking stories that Matt Taibbi uncovers.
Why wont someone with a Twitter account ask him outright?
Heres a rebuttal:
so is this admission by this Blue Check Ted fellow an official acknowledgment by Twitter that it, Twitter, seeks a monopoly?
Is that legal since wasn’t the law that gave free reign to the internet developers meant to drive competition for developers so people could freely navigate this information super highway?
This is not a monopoly. This is no different than the NYTs not wanting to advertise in their pages that the NY Post now has twice the space in their ask the Editor Forum.
Twitter is just choosing to not market their competitor via their customers.
Thanks DD…your notes here helped me understand the debate a little better.
That makes sense. Appreciate that.
what? no confidence in competition? w/o the deep state, and the deep state $$, Jack doesn’t have any coffee to sell
Yup! The Gov be owners of Twit, in a Mafia kinda way…Making it a Monopoly. (the definition of Monopoly coming from when Gov. is involved in a Capitalist economy, which is everything in the USofA, except small, Main St. business owners, that the Gov can shut down anytime they feel like it)
Oh, now I get it. Musk is no different from the rest of the vulture capitalists: Destroy a growing competitor using any means possible. Lord forbid we should have true open competition … too much truth might leak out.
Why is Substack competition considered a war?
Last I checked, we live in a free-market society.
Business is war by other means.
CIA behind substack, and Elon’s satellites suddenly falling out of the sky?
Someone pulling the fishing hook in Elons mouth? Is Taibbi under duress? These and many more questions yet to be answered. The Soap Opera continues.
As The World Turns….
As the mission creeper’s world ‘Churns’…
It appears Elon paid 44billion dollars for a social media partnership with the US government. Not surprising though as SpaceX is essentially a public/private partnership. A symbiotic relationship? Must be. Count me as thinking Elon’s first amendment passion is mostly talk and little walk.
JUNIOR partner,…very much Junior, but perhaps allowed to THINK he is in Control.
Notice how firstly we can assume the explation of “jacks coffee shop” applies to ALL of these Big tech companies, i.e. even with advertising, and data marketing, its hard to see how they could be making the $ their valuations indicate, or be able to afford the enormous capacity required to operate.
With twitter, its just more obvious.
Notice secondly, how they all seem to have an unbreakable monopoly in the U.S. and nobody is doing ANYTHING about it.
Lots of $ to Congress, sure.
But isn’t it likely their shadow partner, i.e. the I/C is also exerting pressure to protect its interests?
Better a ‘monopoly’ of companies, that the I/C is embedded in, than many companies. Hence we have all seen how any social media start up, is bought by the biggies before it can be a threat.
I’m thinking the I/C has been embedded with Big tech, from the beginning, picking winners and losers, based on those they were able to corrupt?
Probably recruited Bill Gates, etc. in college, and gave them, their career ‘assistance’ along the way.
XWHAT is the 1/C?
The I/C….I ntelligence / C ommunity
I volunteer in a non profit book store. We have a big donation cart.The books come in and I load them up for processing them in the back room. I had never seen so many hardcover books there about President Trump. All those various expensive books were damning PDJT in one way or another. Has the government gone into the anti-PDJT book business? Sure looks that way. Beware!
Barb, the Anti-Trump rhetoric in any form including books was a big revenue stream. Also saw article about political book sales and money laundering? Hence why sooo many out there.
There have been ongoing rumors for decades about different projects where the government turned over large developments to fledgling hitech companies. Developments in database technology, parallel processing, search algorithms, virtual memories, social engineering software work, etc.
25 years ago when Google first came out, LewRockwell.com posted an article which was sourced and attributed showing how everything about starting up Google could be connected to Bush/Cheney and the CIA. For years I saved it and then one computer after another in those 25 years and you sometimes lose stuff that you think when you save it, “One day I know that I will need this…I know I will.”
Arminius, Did you ever find the article in ?. My LR reading does not go back that far.
Perhaps Steve Jobs wasn’t as on board as his competitor to fall in line with the IC so they had to get him gone… and succeeded, opening the door for Tim Apple.
Jobs had migrated most of Apple’s manufacturing to China. He developed deep ties there. Jobs history with MacIntosh computers which evolved into Apple’s was pretty rocky. He was kicked out once and then brought back in. Jobs always tightly tied the hardware manufacturing of his products and the software together. It’s called vertical integration, a type of monopoly. It can produce a better and more secure product. It allowed Jobs to be more innovative than say Microsoft, which never employed vertical integration.
Jobs had decades long history with pancreatitis. He may not have been killed. He probably was a thin person with a poor diet, genetic propensity to this disease and thus poor health.
Microsoft was built on a hybrid architecture of IBM chipset hardware initially. The Compac/HP/IBM PC ventures incorporated hardware from multiple vendors. Microsoft’s operating systems and other software sat on top of them. This is a big reason why Microsoft has been notoriously more buggy than competitors, more flavors of hardware to work with. A variety of companies producing hardware that may or may not have followed the specifications to the letter for interfaces with other hardware and other software.
Microsoft was very good at gobbling up innovative independent software companies into its fold. They themselves were not very good at innovation. The major PC hardware manufacturers to this day source hardware from a variety of sources and incorporate them into a unit. Things are so miniaturized these days that most of the hardware circuitry has been consolidated with a few exceptions.
Many hardware and software companies have been started with defense hardware and defense software converted into civilian products. I know for a fact that the first satellite distribution of video to the home through descramblers originated in this way because I worked on the code for the first pay per view system. The technology developed their migrated to Qualcomm and their phones.
Quayle did not invent the internet, DARPA did. Message boards through college campuses and some companies were incorporated long before browsers existed. My employer was using them in the late 1980’s. Once browsers were developed, the internet became popular among PC owners.
How much of Elon’s worth isn’t tied to the gov in some manner?
Which govt? US? Or CCP?
About Zero either way.
Re “Which govt? US? Or CCP?”
Sadly, a distinction with increasingly DEcreasing difference.
You noticed that. Both.
Ah yes, that public private partnership where the privateers do what they do best, and less expensively. I think papa Bush pushed that idea.
Elon made his billions off the government teat. They own him.
Project Paper Clip on rockroids!
Tesla is also a public/private partnership if you consider the billions in subsidies it gets from government.
I have seen as many as four Teslas on the road in a small tour around my small suburban village in one day. I thought they were test driving due to the new Tesla dealership in town. However, they were single occupancy so probably owned. I can’t believe that so many people in our suburb can afford the things or want them. Maybe they are leased?
JMO.
It never is a good idea to get taken up by anything connected with the Fed’s so called intelligence operations or with high tech at any level.
They are the enemy.
Their “achilles heel” are the massive databases that they use to spy on and control citizen’s activities, aka tweetyyyyy bird.
One of our first duties in the post-coup-retribution-period is to make null those databases and delete any application that is set up to use them.
Until then, our battlefield and operational area is within the states / local entities.
We have taken back control of 1/3 of the democrat / GOPe dc control centers and next we take the required number of states to control the electoral college for President Trump and then the senate and the presidency.
Please stay focused on that.
As for the recent twitttteyyy bird shutting down the substack, it looks like a positive move in that it shows they are afraid of something. And anything that scares them is good for us.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe, especially the DeXX gang.
“As for the recent twitttteyyy bird shutting down the substack, it looks like a positive move in that it shows they are afraid of something. And anything that scares them is good for us.”
^^^^^This^^^^^ Xs 1000 Up Votes
High tech is like any other tool neither good nor bad in and of itself. Humans can use it for either and any purpose.
But yes this is noise at this point except where it may open eyes to see the controlling hand of government.
On the other hand if your eyes are not already open, maybe that sand in them is actually cement.
Repost from another thread.
This article posted 4 days ago from the Anti Defamation League my have something to do with Twits Substack ban.
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/antisemitism-false-information-and-hate-speech-find-home-substack-0
The usual suspects; satan’s minions
If you’re threatened by truly free speech then maybe you’re the problem but they never see it that way. Gotta shut us down.
Thanks for your link to what the ADF thinks. The only targeted person on their very weak targeting that I am a very familiar with is Dr. Mercola. He’s on everyone’s s— list that hates truth.
I very much agree. Accepting the word of the ADL as truth is highly likely to lead to being misinformed.
On LifeSite Friday: 6 bombshell facts from Elon Musk’s Twitter Files you need to know:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/here-are-all-the-bombshell-revelations-uncovered-by-the-twitter-files-so-far/
“Dr. Shiva: Elon Musk’s Backdoor Censorship Ecosystem Is Silicon Valley’s Fascism Rebranded” (Bannons War Room)
https://rumble.com/v2gtj3q-dr.-shiva-elon-musks-backdoor-censorship-ecosystem-is-silicon-valleys-fasci.html
Sounds like a WISE CHOICE to me..
Elon Musk has done a few Monster Moves that SEEM on the SURFACE to be “Great” – or something….
HE has NEVER YET made me feel comfortable about what the QUALITY of his CHARACTER is, or of his Ulterior Motives, either.
Just like his Electric Vehicles with Over-Riding Automated Computerized Control of the Steering of the EVs….
“Designed” to be “So Helpful” to the Drivers… Especially when combined with AUTO-LOCKING systems.
Got a ride home from a co worker that had an immaculate ’91 Honda Accord
on a hot day. The car broke down enroute, and locked all it’s doors and the sunroof.
Was, conveniently in the parking lot of a Goodyear tire repair shop.
Had to swelter for an hour until they opened the place up for business.
Always had some second thoughts about “perfect” japanese vehicles after that.
At what point do we have so many “automatic functions” that we become the Eloi?? One must ask ..
Keep repeating “Six ways from Sunday”. 🤔
My question is –
What will the Restrict Act do to all social media and our access to it – and to our free speech and human rights- if it passes.
And will our access to the internet be taxed by the $$$ greedy fat cats in DC?
The Restrict Act – is Net Neutrality 2.0 – another tyrannical censorship power play. Obviously the authors of this Bill do not respect the Bill of Rights, civil rights or human rights. Sounds like life in China under the CCP and life in Soviet Russia under the KGB.
Patriots who went on Twitter after Musk took over suffer from battered spouse syndrome. Abusers don’t change. Even in a new suit and tie.
Told ya. Now get off the tit. 🦾
Does Twitter block links to Gab, Truth Social or other Twitter type platforms? I don’t know because I don’t use them.
If they don’t, it seems odd they would block Substack.
Patience, bluejean. They’re coming after their competitors one step at a time.
Elon The Electrified is a whore of the CCP.
Hmm..Taibbi ain’t straight… he downplayed the “back door” it’s an entire ecosystem… check with Dr. Shiva.
I keep thinking that Taibbi is using this as an out from an uncomfortable situation. If he writes truth to power, then, that power will come after him. He probably tip toed through the data reporting what he perceived that he could safely. Musk was also threading that needle but Taibbi quitting has undone it.
Dr . Shiva and Sundance are on same page. Here is a link to a recent interview detailing Elon covering up for DHS.https://www.youtube.com/live/2KOXvsmQvTQ?feature=share
BTW, has anyone seen that January 6th footage we were supposed to get?
Tucker is quiet.
That IS an important bit we do need to keep in focus because there is nothing preventing us from becoming January 6th prisoners eventually.
Here’s what you get when you click on someone’s Substack link:
https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=https://simonateba.substack.com
The last line says “Ignore this warning and continue”. The link embedded in the word continue is his Substack link and it DOES take you to his Substack.
Soft censorship is still censorship.
Are we certain they did this for everyone with Substack or just the few that ADL and others outlined as “unsafe” because they are not policed by US gubt censors.
I get the same exact message when I click on a link to a Substack article:
https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/episode-32-america-this-week-with?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
All it does is slow you down a bit… And makes Twitter lok like a Nervous Nellie.
I see what you did there…you just got a lot of us up to speed on who Simon Ateba is…well done 2Laine…that little sidetrip this morning was helpful.
He’s an awesome guy!
Need I remind people that Musk’s EVs get federal rebates and he launches rockets for the US Government? When Musk said that he was going to need money for his using his communication satellite system in Ukraine the US Government refused, but quietly gave Must a bunch of no-bid contracts apparently to cover his expenses.
Given the current corruption of the US Government, if Musk did fire all the deepstate plants in Twitter, would he not lose all these subsidies and contracts?
An Old Axiom: “You don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”
Given past experience with Twitter (beginning with blocking PDJT, and ME of all people!) any person with good intent, a clean heart and honest endeavors should immediately exit Twitter!
A mass exodus of good people, leaves only the seething, corrupt and rotten mess the feds have created over there and no more ad revenue, etc.
Let them stew in their own juice, as my momma used to say!
Elon has a business to defend, but he should have seen this coming with Substack or perhaps Taibbi should have…I don’t blame Elon for this, but I do wonder how deep the feds still have their hooks into Twitter…After all, Elon needs the feds to work with him on Telsa and SpaceX.
In my humble opinion, the talons are still deeply embedded, some have been temporarily silenced. In other words, I think they put flags around some of the code to disable it until circumstances change. The state of those flags can be changed at any time and that code becomes active again. This is much easier and safer to do that ripping the code out wholesale because a piece of code is always connected to one or many other pieces of code, which you may or may not know about. This allows Musk to pretend that he has fixed things/is fixing things, while preserving his government funding.
Hey, the government – YOU – funded Musk to the tune of about $6B to start Tesla among other enterprises. What do you expect?
It is the CIA’s mess. Let them figure it out.
This is a problem for many folks whose message is every bit as important as is Taibbi’s.
Think of Robert Malone, Jeff Childers, Toby Rogers just for starters.
Interesting. Twitter is still permanently suspending users without any explanation. My account is one of them. I haven’t broken their rules but I’m also a big Trump supporter so I feel it had something to do with that. I wonder if Elon knows how many small accounts like mine are suspended and why or is it just back to business as usual pre-Musk with the IC calling the shots.
IC never quit calling the shots. They used Musk as window dressing change that is coming but never arrives.
Hmmm…my spidey sense is telling me this is no accident…follow this thread Sundance.. https://rumble.com/v2gtj3q-dr.-shiva-elon-musks-backdoor-censorship-ecosystem-is-silicon-valleys-fasci.html
I guess the outcome of Dr. Shiva’s lawsuit just went nowhere. More glad I don’t use Twitter.
Can one post/link to twitter tweets?
So who/what is DHS and what do they have to do with all this?
Have you been asleep for the past 20 years? DHS = Department of Homeland Security.
I’m looking forward to using Substack and following Matt there.
My understanding is that the new Substack “Notes” feature is direct competition to Twitter. I don’t see how Twitter can be expected to subsidize a direct competitor by allowing access to that competitor via links. I don’t know how other Social Media platforms handle access to direct competitors.
He could have stayed on Twitter but just not posted Substack stuff there.
It wasn’t an “either/or”, but rather a compromise.
Exactly, that’s why I think Taibbi is using it as an easy out of a tough situation. Seeing how deeply embedded the government is in Twitter, maybe he does not want to play a game that is that high stakes. Remember what they have done to Julian Assange.
Clif High has been on substack forever. He got his YouTube followers to switch over when the censoring started. I like it because the site pulls up fast, as well as the sections of ea substack, like archives (all content), articles (reading) and podcasts. And they are right there at the top 1st thing, so if I don’t want to make noise (reading) or I’m driving and need to pull up content quickly without much effort (podcasts), boom I have just the content I want, and listed automatically w most recent on top. You can comment or just tap the red heart if you want. I’ll do that to show I’ve read or listened, so it’s just a matter of a couple taps to see how many podcasts, for example, I have to fill my time on a long road trip, including easily moving on to the next.
Why doesn’t musk just. Scrap the code and begin anew?
EXPENSIVE and the consumer fallout would be horrendous. Disappearing accounts everywhere, all kinds of unexpected anomalies.
Substack (and twitter) author Eugyppius has comments on the twitter blocking substack issue after Elon Musk comments that Matt Taibbi is an employee of Substack as Musk’s justification for the block.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/why-crippling-substack-links-on-twitter
I just posted multiple substacks to twitter.
Check first, NOTHING blocked.
Substack is a 100% uncensored publishing platform. Authors publish while controlling paywall access. Subscription options are free (to get email notifications of posts), monthly or annual for pay walled content, and one-time donations of varying sizes.
Taibbi has over 50K paid annual subscribers, me included, that want to “pay his salary” to find and report on important truths. I chose to support free, independent and thorough journalism in Taibbi, mostly based on his 2008 reporting on the banking crimes of the financial collapse. His is quite liberal, although not insanely so. As a conservative, I don’t give a rats as (most of the time) even that he at least until recently had a prominent (though not fully debilitating) case of TDS.
True to my hope, he followed the Twitter Files story to its true center, the state-controlled censorship. He even followed it to other social media platforms. THAT is the reporting I want to support!
Substack has had corporate attacks attempting to force censorship, especially related to the COVID narrative. None of those attempts had any impact. NONE.
I follow dozens of writers, and support about half dozen (at least $50/yr for each). Why? Because they expose the truth honestly, just as Sundance does here. And, yes, I support Sundance financially as well. Truth is truth.
I’ll have more to say about the Twitter-Substack feud. I disagree with the “Twitter bad” as the only important factor at play. But I’ll save that for a separate comment, leaving this “What is Substack?” info to stand alone.
A key fact not directly mentioned in any of the “Substack is a threat to Twitter” discussions since this surfaced is this: Substack just raised more than $5 million in financing completely independent of Venture (Vulture?) Capital (VC) support.
So why did they do that alone, no support? Because VC’s refuse to work with Substack as long as they refuse to censor content along the lines of propaganda and narrative. Substack simply refuses to censor anything.
Substack posted on their site the request for equity investment and asked their writers to do so as well. And they did. And they wrote about it on Substack, creating a tremendous grass roots response.
Substack is mostly populated by readers just like those here: people that want the truth found, exposed, and responded to in appropriate legal and moral ways.
A great feature of Substack is the comments. All except the most popular writers (like Dr. McCullough and Don Surber) allow anyone to comment without paid subscription. The comments are sooo intelligent, resourceful, and respectful. And, again, it’s very much like here, except you can find insiders and experts on many topics beyond just politics, like doctors and lawyers fighting in the trenches against the COVID bioweapons attack.
Go look around. Read comments, contribute.
P.S. – Start with https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/, which is on Substack despite the unique URL… hmm, which might be a way around that pesky Twitter squelching strategy (at least for a while).
I agree.
Elon says none of this is even true.
Was just reading that, too.🧐
So Elon blocks Substack so Taibbi has a face saving withdrawal avenue because DHS weenies are threatening him and his family for exposing the twitter files and the corruption of the deep state and shreading if the constitution.
Sounds just like the swamp thing to do
Substack Co founder replies to Elon Musk.
I hope they work this out, whatever it is…
Chairman Musk imposes Great Firewall upon Substack
https://dossier.substack.com/p/chairman-musk-imposes-great-firewall
“Either Musk did due diligence in the purchase and was aware of DHS attachment, or Musk didn’t know of the scale of DHS involvement. Both possibilities painted a rather odd perspective of the Musk motive.”
That’s an understatement lol. I saluted you previously SD on your crucial early Twitter insights and I do it again here. Great work.
These private corporate actors with undisclosed subterranean public ‘affiliations’ are powerful and insidious.
See Sasha Latypova’s work on the DOD/HHS/DARPA deputizing (and extending sovereign immunity to) Pfizer, Moderna et al for the global bioweapon attack that Trump got roped into under the Warp Speed moniker.
Elon is captured by the CCP Where did he get the $$ to buy Twitter & start Tesla and other companies. He’s deep into the pockets of the CCP and won’t allow anything negative on Twitter about CCP. Dr. Shiva has lawsuit and it’s going to be very interesting. Musk is a distraction to make us think he’s on OUR side. Don’t be distracted.
Bravo, Matt! You have always been a truth-teller. Thanks for your integrity.