There really is no other phrase that seems to adequately describe the future for online life in the United States than to describe it through the prism of the previously discussed shadow banning that takes place on the X-platform for specifically wrong-thinking users.
It is important to begin with the end in mind. Perhaps some people are unaware that internet services, meaning the actual experience of using the internet for communication and commerce, are not the same in every nation. In fact, it is quite a different experience depending on where on the globe you are located. The differences are driven by internal controls, the intranet of the regional internet per se.
The internet in China is not the same as the internet in Europe, which is not the same as the internet in Australia, which is not the same as the internet in North America, which is not the same -at all- as the internet that now exists within Russia. Even in some continents, the internet traffic flows are controlled at different levels within each nation. The “world wide web” is a format, but when you get down to the national level, things change.
This baseline helps to understand that internet freedom is defined by access to information and commerce.
To the extent the information or commerce is defined as against the interests of the authority structure, or potentially a threat to the national security interest of the government therein, the internet content is filtered, modified, censored, removed or just simply blocked from view. This is one layer in the information control system.
Another layer is the flow of commerce that floats atop the flow of information. This is where advertising, product sales, purchasing and general e-commerce takes place. This layer represents another option for control; therefore, this e-commerce layer should be considered running in parallel to the information, albeit perhaps indirectly attached.
When western government applied economic sanctions against Russia via financial restrictions writ large, the layer of internet commerce control merged with the information and national security control systems of the internet.
Russian citizens were blocked from e-commerce access, specifically from western nations in alignment with the sanctions, and the mechanisms of online purchasing were restricted. However, the entire world did not participate in the sanctions, and there is a massive amount of e-commerce that takes place, even with the systems of western control financial blocks in place.
Additionally, there is a large black-market system for commerce and financial transactions that started organically in the aftermath of the Russian sanctions. Crypto currency, as a financial transaction mechanism, was predictable; however, over time people became even more strategic and alternate transfer systems were created. You can purchase advertising in Russia, but are you really purchasing advertising – or are the purchasers really just transferring funds? Think about it.
I share that Russia example, because I do not want people to get too disheartened in what is going to happen here in the United States. There will always be a market for information, regardless of the control systems that are created to stop it. Additionally, there will always be smart rebellious people who think of ways to subvert the intents of the control mechanisms. Freedom may be diminished from a raging fire to a small burning flame, but it will never be fully extinguished. WE just need to learn to adapt.
It took me over two years to assemble The Benghazi Brief, because the background story was so large and complex that it took time, research and retrospection to appropriately contextualize the truth of the issue. {GO DEEP} The Benghazi attack was a small, albeit deadly outcome, of a much larger story. The brief walks through everything in context.
In a similar construct, the Shadowbanning of The United States internet is a big and complex story, and I am only about halfway through the assembly of all the data to put context to it. However, as time becomes critical, it is important for me to push the information forward – because many of the timelines in the construct are likely to surface before I am complete with the fully assembled story.
I am going to drop some links that will help serve as a flashlight into the rabbit hole. Each story may seem initially disparate or disconnected. However, I would encourage you to think big picture with each of the puzzle pieces that are presented. This is likely to become a series, and I will create a new “Internet” category on the side bar where I will tag any future elements.
Please keep in mind, the issues of e-commerce: ie. information monetization, advertising, deplatforming and debanking, are not disconnected from the issues of information control. The same larger national security system that has mandated (and will mandate), information blocks, content censorship, content restrictions, content removal and various platform control elements, is all part of one interconnected compliance system. Electronic Commerce and Electronic Information are all subject to the online control process. This is a public-private partnership on the internet.
The origin of the public-private partnership goes all the way back to the origin of the tech system in relationship to the DARPA programs and government sponsored research labs. The outcome of the modern partnership is evident in the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) collaboration with the various communication platforms or pipes of information. Systems like the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database, are simply outcomes of the partnership. There are hundreds more.
There is a rush now to provide context because Artificial Intelligence (AI), or smart data systems, are launching into the United States internet control mechanisms almost daily. We are close to the time when AI will be triggered to help control the content of the internet under the guise of national security.
The timeline for full deployment of the modern United States internet control system, is likely around late fall and early winter this year, in advance of the 2024 U.S. election cycle.
Everything will change. Every route of online traffic including Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to filters and rerouting on Domain Name Systems (DNS), to the Internet Protocol (IP) itself will be subject to change in the form of background shadow banning. If the DHS partnership is successful, you will not initially notice – much like a shadow banned platform user doesn’t notice their new defined status. The shift will become more obvious over time.
One odd outcome will be a regional targeting system. Depending on where you are in the USA, your online experience will be different. There will also be enhancements to your internet travel based on your profile. Good thinking users will have benefits that enhance the experience of the user and supports the interests of the national security guardians.
♦ Deployment of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is irrelevant in this construct. A VPN is like you renting a car without a license plate. You travel past all the Automatic License Plate Readers, arrive at your destination, leave the keys in the ignition and just abandon the car. Your personal travel was essentially invisible to the APLR system. However, when the internet roads are controlled by the national security state, and there is no longer an offramp to the destination, your VPN use is irrelevant – you cannot reach your destination. That’s part of the shift.
You will notice I use the term “definition” quite often. That is because the root of every control mechanism is grounded upon defining things. When you accept the terms ‘disinformation’, ‘misinformation’, and/or ‘malinformation’, you are buying into the process that permits definitions to determine your travel. Those who define both you and your destination, ultimately control your online experience.
Now, before getting to a recent example of this construct as it is being built, it is important to return to the e-commerce aspect and overlay the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) index into the world of online commerce.
♦ Right now, you can physically boycott Bud Light by choosing another brand. However, for total goods and services the amount of online purchasing is now exceeding the amount of purchasing in real life (brick and mortar shopping). Overlay the economic control system (think Russian sanctions approach) with the national security requirements for DEI, amid all online commerce, and apply that layer of analysis. In the e-commerce world, choosing not to buy Bud Light will become a little more difficult; and those who do support the boycott become subject to the previously mentioned “definitions”.
I’m jumping ahead, because today there was a big development. As you read this, do not think small as presented – think bigger. Think beyond the use of AI moderation on a platform, and think of AI moderation on the U.S. Internet System. Online moderation conducted by AI:
OPEN AI – […] GPT-4 is also able to interpret rules and nuances in long content policy documentation and adapt instantly to policy updates, resulting in more consistent labeling. We believe this offers a more positive vision of the future of digital platforms, where AI can help moderate online traffic.
[…] Content moderation demands meticulous effort, sensitivity, a profound understanding of context, as well as quick adaptation to new use cases, making it both time consuming and challenging. Traditionally, the burden of this task has fallen on human moderators sifting through large amounts of content to filter out toxic and harmful material, supported by smaller vertical-specific machine learning models. The process is inherently slow and can lead to mental stress on human moderators.
We’re exploring the use of LLMs to address these challenges. Our large language models like GPT-4 can understand and generate natural language, making them applicable to content moderation. The models can make moderation judgments based on policy guidelines provided to them. (read more)
Do you remember me telling you about what I noticed in the most recent Google spider crawls?
“The Alpha/Google spiders are not crawling around with their enhanced AI looking for words, phrases or content issues. Enhanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given the spiders the ability to look for context. The new Alpha/Goog AI spiders are crawling the internet looking for information provided with a detrimental and accurate context. Those who are applying truthful context are the subversive voices that must be targeted. Keep this in mind.”
I can get in big trouble for sharing this next graphic, but f**kit… I’m all in.
Google Spider Crawl Result, CTH Subversive Content, July 2023
As we have shared, the crawl is not headlines, the crawl is in content. Yes, even content in the comment section is now flagging to the control systems. Why? Because we operate a proprietary constructed private commenting system that doesn’t have a backdoor and protects you, the user.
The Google Spiders are newly enhanced with AI instructions, dispatched looking for content and ‘context’ that is against the interests of the Vanguard, Blackrock, Larry Page (Alpha/Goog owners), and the public-private partnership.
Look at the one I have highlighted above titled “Have you ever noticed this.” Do you remember it? [Reminder Here] This content is considered “dangerous or derogatory”. Think about that for a moment. Discussing the humor of Donald Trump, and the fellowship it creates, is considered “dangerous” to the interests of Google.
Do not get alarmed, get informed.
I share this information with you so that you understand what is being constructed and what is about to be deployed on a large scale throughout the U.S. internet operating system. The U.S. internet will be different. The social media restrictions became more prevalent and noticeable in the past several years; now it is time for DHS to expand that process to the entire U.S. internet.
When I wrote about Jack’s Magic Coffee shop, people initially thought I was crazy – but the guys inside the coffee shop didn’t. Eventually DHS control over Twitter was revealed in the Twitter files. The same background is true here. The entire American online apparatus is going to change, quite soon.
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Pentagon activates 175 Million IP’s
Sundance, this may be the most important post you’ve ever made . . . . and in your case that’s saying a lot! I hope you and this community can crowd-source an effective way we can protect ourselves and thrive in relation to what you correctly say is coming.
I agree…. Well written. I thought it was a “must read”, and sent it out to 25 conservative friends. ‘Soooo important…one person responded. One person…people are lost in space….1000 stare..
Not good….
How can we fight this?
Is investing in a good short-wave radio a good option?
You will find no larger a gathering of freedom-minded individuals than those on 3840 kHz (lower side band) in the mornings starting at about 8 AM CST.
Those who don’t have a radio can listen via https://usa3840.com/ and click Listen Live in the upper right corner.
How about a FHMUX for ham radio?
General caveat: Be wary of the do-everything Chinese micro-radios. Unless you can find a good review of it! Lots of video reviews of the new radios like that.
‘Scrambled’ modes like the SINCGARS (and other mil radios) are capable of are not legal for hams to use (in general). Approved voice and digital modes only, or, if you publish the details on a new mode you want to experiment with is legal too. FH and SS are not outright approved, or any other mode whose purpose is to obscure the communications (and no ‘codes’ or ‘ciphers’). (In the case of SHTF scenario, who is going to check though? Who is going to have free time to check?)
Such services like MARS are of course not amateur radio, but fall under different fed gov rules.
Radio waves can easily be blocked. The Postal Service is out because they can read every piece of mail without opening it. Forget about the Constitution. All telephone and message service is an open book. In the end, congregating and conversing with neighbors face to face will be the only means of communication that’s not monitored. That is an occurrence that has been virtually nullified by our modern way of life. That will be the final push, to outlaw “congregating” in the interest of “public safety. The net has been tightening for decades and the NWO is ready for it’s final cleanup of “wrong think”. The forces of good and evil have never before been so clear to those who are still sane. We just might have to finally admit that we can do nothing without God and start to pray in earnest. Even now the truth cannot be found anywhere that can be trusted except in His Word.
re: “Radio waves can easily be blocked.”
By blocking off the ionosphere? Are you outside your field of specialization on this?
No, but you might be. Here is a good article on blocking radio waves. It even has pictures.
https://www.allthescience.org/how-are-radio-waves-blocked.htm
re: “No, but you might be.”
Are you a noob to all this (MOST ppl are, this includes probably you)? I think you might be. In which case, you don’t know what you are on about. I will leave it at that.
Do you even know what the ionosphere is? Any comprehension of ‘wireless’ outside of your cellphone, or maybe FRS or MURS radios?
My professional background is in RF/wireless telecom and related product and systems design, including several related patents. The linked article is very rudimentary, and the words used can easily be misunderstood, “blocking” being the worst. Better words are “absorption,” “conduction,” and “dissipation.” Depending on the nature of materials (gases {including the atmosphere}, liquid, or solid), be they conductive metals, ionized atmosphere, semiconductors, or nominally non-conductors, all materials have some level of absorption, conduction, or dissipation of RF energy.
Only in an unoccupied vacuum is there none of these, but there is dispersion (spreading out) of the energy. As soon as an amount of RF energy leaves an antenna, no matter what the antenna’s configuration, that energy begins to disperse. Depending on the antenna, its surroundings, and the frequency of that energy, the strength of that energy may be stronger in some directions than in others. It gets weaker in every direction because of dispersion, but it is never completely “blocked” until it is either completely absorbed or conducted such that it is dissipated as heat.
It is possible to achieve a practical blocking effect with shielding, but this is usually limited to complete encapsulation (RF-wise) in a Faraday cage of wire-mesh (and/or solid metal) walls, ceiling, and floor (or sphere). But even such a cage is not 100% effective at blocking; it just attenuates the RF energy (by conduction/dissipation) to such a degree that it does not matter- which makes such cages useful tools when one needs an interference-free environment to work on sensitive electronics.
If RF energy is being used to transmit to another location(s), antennas can be configured to direct the energy preferentially in certain directions (and to direct it away from others), usually referred to a “gain,” but which does not increase the amount of transmitted energy; rather, some of the fix amount of energy is directed elsewhere. Regardless, some of the total energy will go in every direction (spherically), and some of that energy will be reflected and/or some refracted (by buildings, water towers, mountains, foliage, Chinese balloons, passing aircraft, etc.) to propagate (usually) unpredictably, but in some cases, positively. But even positively, there is the possibility that the signals can arrive at a desired location out of phase with the direct path, which can impair the recipient’s receipt.
So, if one desires certainty of receipt with extremely low probability of snooping, use all-fiber networks. Fibers can be tapped, but the risk of exposure is very high.
Radio waves need line of sight to work, they can be jammed however
re: “Radio waves need line of sight to work”
No, they do not have to be. Sorry, noob, but you know nothing on this subject.
I will even take a very simple example. During the day, I can receive KLBJ from almost anywhere in the state of Texas. KLBJ in Austin is _not_ within line-of-sight except for maybe 25 or 30 miles to the station. Something called ‘ground wave’ extends the propagation on KLBJ’s freqeuncy of 590 kHz QUITE beyond so-called line of sight.
Also, at night, WBBM in Chicago can be received over most of Texas … WBBM Chicago is likewise only line-of-sight for 30 some miles. Something called Ionospheric Propagation allows WBBM’s 780 kHz signal to be heard across the US well beyond line of sight.
Those are two simple examples of beyond line-of-sight propagation.
Not a noob ,I carried a radio for three years for my Uncle Sam, sorry if I didn’t make a long explanation for all the information detailed nerds out there. beside a few extraordinary circumstances radio needs line of sight to work and can be overpowered by a stronger signal on the same frequency. Keep your shade to yourself, just because you did a quick internet search means nothing compared to my experience learning about, carrying and using such devices.
In this particular case, _Jim is correct. While line-of-sight is most efficient for RF communications on most VHF, it is by no means a requirement on all frequencies or even all conditions in VHF. Different propagation rules exist for different frequencies, and to a different extent – even to different conditions. For example, I live in Western North Carolina and I talk to Morristown, TN – each and every evening at exactly the same time. This is a distance of 155 miles and is definitely nothing close to “line-of-sight; there are mountains and thousands of other impediments in the way. My ability to do this every evening is neither extraordinary nor exceptional; it is rather quite common. It is definitely incorrect to say that “radio needs line of sight to work.” That is like saying “the one and only way to the beach is to take Interstate 26.” Note that propagation theory is very different for each of HF, VHF, UHF, and beyond, and such can be explained by most any RF technician or advanced level Amateur Radio license holder. As a matter of fact, for anyone reading this who is genuinely interested in this subject out of a concern for personal / family safety, rather than looking in the comments section of this article and taking what they see as gospel, I would urge them to get the facts from a true RF technician or advanced Amateur Radio license holder.
Ever hear of KISS? Keep it simple and stupid, there are always exceptions to the rule but in general the two simple facts that I discussed are what’s important.
Hanging with the KISS principle, some antennas and receivers require line of sight and some do not. It depends on the wave length and frequency. Infrared is one area of the frequency spectrum and it requires line of site. Satellite communications are C band and require line of site, hence your car’s GPS fails to acquire the satellite when there is cloud cover. Wifi does not require line of site, it goes through wooden walls, doors, furniture, etc. It requires proximity for reception. Cell phone communications are also transmitted on the frequency spectrum and do not require line of site nor do they require proximity. They transmit through many objects. The original phones would not transmit through thick concrete walls or mountains. Part of the frequency spectrum is visible light and part of the frequency spectrum we experience as heat. All signals are subject to attenuation due to distance and intervening objects. Jamming is a signal in a frequency proximate to the one to be jammed that impairs reception of a clear signal by the intended receiver. Scrambling is a different technique for impairing reception of a signal.
Sure, if UHF and to some extent VHF. But if you worked HF at all (not likely as you need 10 meter antenna) you would understand the difference. And how during the day you used certain freqs, but at night different ones due to ionosphere.
Frequency is everything in radio, Sky wave / ground wave etc. “LOS” is relevant in certain frequencies.
Wow! Wait until you start getting into atmospheric ducting and can paint a coastline with radar 70 miles away simply because the RF radar signal bounces back and forth in the duct. Only under certain conditions but it used to happen every night in the winter months in the northern Persian Gulf.
re: “All telephone and message service is an open book.”
You have zero knowledge of something called “Number stations” on shortwave, and a related crypto technology called “One-time pads”. I also think you are also unawares of what is available in the way of cryptographic tools today.
It is a shame when well-meaning ppl like yourselves speak outside their area of expertise.
If you have enough “expertise” to solve the problems of which we’re discussing why don’t you put forth some ideas instead of wasting time poking at someone. The shame is that someone of such “expertise” would spend so much time being disagreeable on an internet discussion. Finding a way around the technology of today is a serious problem. Get to it with your “expertise”.
re: “If you have enough “expertise” to solve … why don’t you …”
Here, on this forum? I do it elsewhere, and where its appropriate. I think you are a noob in a number of areas in life, but that is my own private opinion. I don’t mind people talking or writing authoritatively, but when they are wrong, and expressing their opinion as if it is the end-all and be-all, then I find it necessary to comment, as I have done.
Good go, gave me a hearty chuckle….👏👏😂
👀And a co-conspirator perhaps?
You are a troll
So you’re just a dick to people for fun. Got it.
He isn’t here to do anything except throw shade.
Is investing in a good short-wave radio a good option?
You above question run in the direction the direction of using older technology which could certainly be one avenue through which to communicate.
There is no one solution though right? We must have multiple means of getting the truth around the censors.
I have an idea which goes all the way back to paper, and this could work. I am convince of it. Problem is I have not the drive, or will, to make it happen.
Modern day Committees of Correspondence utilizing small town community news papers:
Small towns within a county usually have community journals. The county I lived most of my life in has a Westside Journal for example. The owner and editors of the journal, husband and wife, are local people, grew up in the community, represent a trusted source. At least in my part of the country, the vast majority of these small town owners/editors are conservative patriotic freedom loving Americans. But I would wager that even in liberal cities, it’s the small community editors that are lovers of a truth that tend to be in the best interest of their readers.
Imagine of we could organize all small town community papers to communicate in one voice.
I have this idea developed out further, and even once contacted my local editor to try and get the seed planted to see I could get the idea to grow, and ended up giving up on the idea.
There was a recent article by Substack about the growing community of local community papers that are springing up on the Substack platform; communities from around the world are using their format for local news interactions; might be one way to create a modern day Committees of Correspondence process.
The massive censorship going on that is silencing conservative voices will not end well. The mild, personable, good-natured people being silenced today will be replaced by extreme, violent voices of really bad people. Yes, the leftists who are bullying others and burning cities, causing $2 billion in damages without consequence, are really rotten people. But the Marxist fools will generate totalitarians who will be even worse. Power flows to those most willing to abuse it. The AI won’t save them and may even be turned against them. Caveat emptor.
The AI WILL be turned against them. AI does not get sarcasm.
Plus, unlike Sundance, I do not expect the roll-out to be unnoticeable. There will be bugs. People will notice. The bandwidth hogging of an additional layer of complexity will also be noticed. They will fix the bugs but the bandwidth drop will remain.
Excellent Pro Tip
I wonder what it is that is being birthed here with such an interesting shell/process as the control systems and power structures being created.
God is in every man woman and child. Something to keep in mind.
Up close things may seem taught, but go up high enough, perhaps very high, and I’m pretty sure it’s popcorn and soda pop as they watch this unfold.
Be easy and rejoice. Change is gonna come.
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– Just one of the things that makes this site so enjoyable, informative, and entertaining. And helps me keep living my best life!!
“jst noe fo eht tsginh ahtt msake isth etsi os ebleajoy, imatinforve, and terentaining…..”
I know you were being cute, but I want people to understand the power of AI.
Me: what does this say? jst noe fo eht tsginh ahtt msake isth etsi os ebleajoy, imatinforve, and terentaining…..
ChatGPT: The sentence appears to be written in a reversed manner. When properly rearranged, it says: “just one of the things that make this site so enjoyable, informative, and entertaining…”.
then SD’s solution will not work!, see the comment above my comment, but thanks for your efforts to demonstrate to me that SD’s solution doesn’t work.
For America to live, Google must die.
That applies to to the world.
We should all learn Hungarian.
For encrypted email I recommend Proton. Not so much their VPN (it’s slower and clunkier than ExpressVPN for ex) but Proton mail has free and paid options, and their Android app is one of the best I’ve found for phones (best of any kind of phone app, not just email). But these days there are probably better options than Proton, coz the Swiss are no longer all of whom they used to be in terms of protecting privacy when Big Brother gives them a call.
Klaus lives in Switzerland, headquarters of the WEF.
Proton has its origins with the CIA. You can be assured that they still have access to everything. None of the encrypted email services should be trusted.
Some measure of trackability safety can still (now and in the future) using a combination of a highly rated VPN in tandem with a TOR circuit. However, even this does nothing about one of the author’s key points: “There is no longer an off-ramp to your destination.” Meaning that you cannot access your desired article / website / address because the Security State has prohibitively contained it.
.Gov has been able to circumvent TOR for at least a decade.
Tutanota.com – check it out
There is no anonymity, or privacy for those who want bad enough accesses your information.
Proton end-to-end encryption only applies to protonmail to protonmail sent/recieved emails, according to everything I have read.
Never assume someone is not reading anything you send across Internet.
(Sure this is three years old, but from everything I have read, it’s still true)
Totally agree. If it is on the internet or a cell phone, it can be read by .gov. They can even intercept some off-line conversations in some situations.
* Navajo Code Talkers have entered the chat *
Start collecting physical roadmaps and old cars. Stockpile cash. Lose the phone. Take an unsurveilled roadtrip.
Soon the cars on the road that aren’t pinging the 5G street lights that they’re passing will stick out like a sore thumb to the AI monitoring the road networks.
I think the shots help build 5G-capable antenna/responders so anybody in a car without a 5G “signature” will also stick out.
Although true, it is probably not fool proof. Worth a shot to test at least.
It’s going to be a while before all the cars have the “correct” transponders.
I remember a time when there was no internet.. I remember a time when accessing information was done at the library.. It didn’t come with comments. It didn’t come with ads. it didn’t come with validation. It was done because a person wanted to research something to know more details on a topic and to share that information.
I remember a time before the internet when sysops built bulletin boards and hosted information accessible only to those that went looking for it. Small knit communities of users that called in via their phones and modems and communicated to share information with others.
I watch today as users tie themselves to corrupted and backdoored devices and protocols designed for profit. To be a platform to make money which was just the lure.. in the end it was made to be monitored. I watched as users tied themselves to systems hosted open on the internet widely available for others to access without regard for security or privacy. That was the whole point.. to reach a wide audience. Social media is one such example of this. Using their systems to fight their corruption is not a good strategy. I know you all think you can just rule these Social systems with shear numbers but that is not going to happen. It’s been designed for something else.
If you really want to separate yourselves from their control you are going to need to build your own systems, your own protocols and your own BBS like systems to compartmentalize your efforts and information and grow that base of users away from the prying eyes of AI on the internet.
You need to stop feeding the systems of control and build your own islands and networks and link them via other methods. I realize most of the base here are from an even older time and most are not technologically savvy. It’s not going to be simple or easy. It’s not going to be fun either. But it is necessary.
I was thinking the same thing, but is it possible to communicate outside the web, or would an entirely new system need to be built. And if that is possible, who with enough money to finance such an endeavor would be willing turn their back on their colleagues?
I remember that issue being addressed in a series of Person of Interest episodes, where the “good AI” guided our protagonists to a mob-built city-wide VHF or UHF antenna system that modified phones could utilize without using the phone network. And to passers-by, it looked like people talking on phones.
satellite phones, beepers, pubs
It starts out small. Like the linux community. Small sets of people working on personal projects that share code and ideas and they eventually merge.
The internet as we call it is really just the US markets own intranet and each region has their own intranet that they collectively call ‘the internet’. It’s still just a container.
re: “I watch today as users tie themselves to corrupted and backdoored devices and protocols designed for profit.”
Not to detract from CTH, but, bet you have never heard of user-supported https://freerepublic.com/home.htm . I think Jim Robinson and his son do the techicals with server hardware, and volunteer mods supervise any trolls that show up. They have been active from 1997 onward when I first found them.
there’s a certain glow in these redirections; interesting.
This brings us full circle. Even if such a task could be accomplished, who would decide who would be able to access this new system? Who would decide what could and could not be posted there? What assurance would there be against infiltrators, spies and just plain liars. The answer is: just more people with their own set of values, prejudices, notions and cultural bias. America has become a nation without a common cause on any front. That has come about through uncontrolled immigration without demanding assimilation along with a failing and increasingly amoral and Godless society. If we can’t bring our nation back to Christian or at least moral values then all other remedies are bound for failure.
It’s not a grand system. It’s more like islands that eventually in time can be connected if they want. Even then the connection can be constant or every once in a while as desired. In the end individuals can build their own island for just one purpose. It can then join in with others of similar purpose and become a whole community devoted to that singular purpose.
That used to be the job of sysops. People that spent their free time running the system, moderating and running the background tasks and they collectively work on and run the program. In time though they can branch duties off to others within the grander community as things expand.
Each group that wants specific ideals in their community can moderate that group however they want. They can limit it’s reach and isolate themselves for security reasons. If they want to look for new members they can create a sub group with less rules to filter through those users and their activities to then offer them access to the main group if they earn the groups trust and their permission.
It’s really and all honestly an open idea. For example the linux community does this kind of stuff all the time.. They build systems on their own time, supporting projects and sharing code and concepts and the idea expands as more people join in to help support it. In time it either sinks or it swims based on the support and effort given from the community.
America has lost it’s way for many reasons one of them being a lack of faith and religion, rebuilding that is key.
Can you do a whole article in the “pro tip” style as a run test?
Very cool…
Does this mean the cost of ammo is going to go up AGAIN?? Oh, my.
I’m guessing that Jonah Goldberg, a Rock Ribbed Republican Super Duper Right Wing Ultra-Conservative Conservative, would identify the source of the problem as too many ordinary citizens being permitted to purchase ammo, without regard to actual need or their worthiness to do so. That, and Trump.
Upside must be that more the ai gets trained to identify GSOH as dangerous or derogatory, more its likely to notice the divergence between the relationship an abusive coach is demanding, and that desired by all humanity’s lonely hearts. Chances that the best is yet to come will.increase exponentially regardless 😉
I’ve been telling myself for quite awhile I need to just stop using the internet, period!!!!
Seems to me it is more of a banana democracy.
Big picture. All that Sundance describes here has been happening since the caveman painted messages on rock walls. One tribe paints animals and another tribe comes by and adds in fish, or even wipes the wall clean.
When the printing press was invented all the same issues surfaced. That flyer put up in the market was not liked by local government and taken down. So, the flyers were put up in other areas that the government couldn’t find so easily. Then the government decided they were going to print their own flyers and pay people to put them up. Then the government realised that they could blame others with this method and even printed flyers that look like they came from the original posters, thus painting the rebels as wacky or liars when it was really disinformation from the government.
As we developed newspapers and magazines there were times when stacks of newspapers were stolen so the public could not read certain opinions. Eventually ads paid for much of the distribution and influenced the opinions presented.
The biggest change and it can be a positive along with negative is the ability of the internet to provide information almost in real time. It used to takes weeks for books and flyers to reach some people.
My point here is to use history as a guide in how we continue to have access to whatever information we desire. Bottom line is it must be sought out rather than fed to us. Don’t use sources unless they are the originator. Don’t take for granted what Google puts on their home page. Use neutral search engines in the address bar instead of a search tools webpage. Type in the address instead of broad searching.
Get over to that other town to see what flyers they have posted on their walls and see how that compares to your town. Be a skeptic, you’re not gonna stop the effort to restrict information from you, as history shows.
Thank you MM55.
So refreshing to see a positive comment rather than the negativity generated by so many posting here.
AI can only do what it is told to do. The human brain is capable of imagining anything.
Ever hear of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect?
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect:
Excerpted from a talk by Michael Crichton.
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward — reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
I assert it does operate in other arenas of life. Examples: the CDC only lied about the covid vaccine. All other information up to the time of COVID regarding vaccines has been truthful. I find people believing that the CDC JUST became corrupt during covid. In fact, I find people still believing certain ABC government bureaucracies trustworthy while knowing that others are hopelessly corrupt.
I remember the first time I read a newspaper article about something I knew about personally.
It was eye opening.
I have Tried to keep that in mind always, but it is hard to do for sure.
Brought this up on the open thread yesterday in response to Maui fires. I’ve noticed some Twitter automated AI bot accounts researching the #MauiFire and #Maui hashtags since the fires in Maui.
This profile is entirely automated and I’ve blocked it, but even with it blocked I see hundreds of other folks sharing it as it is the gospel truth.
T R U T H P O L E @truthpole (Automated)
What makes you so certain the video and its claims aren’t legitimate?
It sounds like what i would expect from a massive fire. The skeletons thing might be a way of saying someone died in a car and what was pulled out by a relative was hard to recognize or describe, and skeleton came out as the descriptive word.
The account is all AI was my point, as well as the content of each tweet.
Kinda spooky and I don’t question the legitimacy of any video it posts, I just prefer a real account and not a BOT Automated account giving me my 📰
See my above post. Don’t accept any source AI or otherwise feeding you your information. It’s called pushing content and like drugs it can be addictive because accepting it is easier.
If you were a hopeless drug user, would you just take whatever is “pushed” to you? Probably. Thus the problem. Any drug user still with their brains intact will go look at what’s out there and decide whether something is safe or dangerous or unknown. Simply allowing the pushing can lead to ones downfall. When it gets to the point where that’s all you get, all is lost, like much of our population that only watches the pushy alphabet media or accepts pushed content as their news. Cut them off and you’ll be better for it.
Thanks MMike55. This was my intended point. I saw folks posting those tweets on CTH over the past few days and pretty sure the folks didn’t realize they were AI Bot accounts. Scary.
Even with that AI profile blocked on my side, I’m amazed at the amount of retweets I see from others using #Maui and #MauiFire hashtags.
So much conspiracy theory being retweeted by these bots. Super scary. Stirring up the underimformed masses.
When email first started being used in corporate America around 1985 we had a rule that you shouldn’t email or forward an email unless you were willing to write it on paper and walk it over to someone. That was a little too tight but yes, people are too gullible and think that everyone needs to see the latest cute or horrible video. I don’t do social media because of all the useless junk and time wasted.
I enjoy this format because it gives us a chance to think and express thoughts in a more civilized and thoughtful way. Thanks to Sundance for his effort to keep the Treehouse standing.
I have noticed that too. An increase in “conspiracy theory” stories all over the internet. I wonder if the intent is to label EVERYTHING a conspiracy theory to numb people to the truthfulness in some “conspiracy theories” thinking that there are just so many conspiracy theories about everything therefore they believe NONE of them or is the pushed content to further divide our already divided country. I have noticed a great deal of fishy business in many online comment sections of the approved online media sources. Sometimes I get the feeling they are all bots talking to each other and pushing talking points rather than actual people debating points. Information warfare is real.
Yes to minimize the label, yes to divide and yes to push talking points.
My most sincere thanks for your hard work in keeping us informed.
You indicate that this content will/may be first in new series. Question: Is there now a way to search for all your posted articles by “Series”?
I try and follow a chain of articles in a series from link to link, beginning to end, but (an maybe it’s because I’m getting old) I often either lose my way along the chain, or when I get to the end cannot remember the beginning in context to the end.
Also looking for easy way to share, and have others read all articles tied to a single series. Any advise appreciated.
Sorry if all this already exist and I am just ignorant of existence.
Look at the keywords at the end of each post, and that will show the various words to choose from when doing a search in the search area of this site and that should bring up other articles with similar keywords.
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Meet at the Green Tavern…
I have said this before –
Tucker Carlson/staff had and I’m pretty certain still has access to digital personal communications, not just content on here processed and delivered to him and whoever (Megyn Kelly also does and that’s not all by far; media and intelligence are almost totally metonymies at this point).
The ADL admitted to I think an undercover Project Veritas person on video that they try as best they can to collaborate with local law enforcement, by contacting them about a target or by getting/giving information about someone when local law enforcement contacts them.
Watch your back, folks, and all around you. Get sneaky. Don’t believe all the naysaying about blocking surveillance, I don’t think it’s all true. They want us to feel defeated, to not even try to block them.
The worst is, all most of us are doing is thinking free!
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever! – George Orwell 1984
So, let me ask this: Would I not be able to boycott that beer brand, having done so in the past? And what about if I never bought beer at all? I am so duh!
Interesting.
Follow the money.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russias-cbdc-exploring-the-truth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/article/how-newsguard-became-the-establishment-guard-against-independent-media-5417756
Anyone else notice that the Truth Social website has been acting very strangely today? I don’t know if it means anything but my screen kept going blank, then it would say that an error occurred and I needed to wait (11:30 today). It seemed like I was being shadow banned and when I tried to post comments they would appear in a faintly lit box but not get posted. Maybe it’s a coincidence, maybe not. I was permanently banned from Twitter right after J6. It’s sad but I don’t trust anything anymore.
Truth Social worked fine for me all day. TS mods do not shadow ban. You can always access the help tab. They are super responsive.
What can never be censored is our prayers/conversation with our God. God will hear us and ultimately He will save this nation and this world from the tyrants/satanic monsters intent on destroying this world and all life.
Let us keep praying and allowing God to use us for his glory.
I believe Sundance is being used by God to glorify His power and beauty. I will pray for Sundance to help find a way to keep CTH working for all in the house.
Amen ~ turning to God is the only way.
My King is Christ and his Heavenly army of Angels will fight his battles. Christ already won at the cross.
I worship no one, no tech, no money, no car, not even food ~ I pray thanks for that food to the Father the Creator.
I do believe that God can use politicians for the Glory of God and to achieve God’s goals . I believe firmly that Donald Trump is being used to bring glory to God. I will keep Trump in my prayers for his safety and strength.
How ’bout going very Low Tech,….. attaching mini-microfiche to Carrier Pigeons sent from one community newspaper to the next near by NP/Ham or CB radio jocks??? AI and Spider proof, right?
Free Will/Thinking can keep us out of the Boss’s Box to “get our minds right”,… “What We Have Here,.. Is Failure to Control Communications!” (apologies to Cool Hand Luke)
So the trick will be developing ways of throwing sand in their new construct. Remember, AI is as only good as those who program it. I have lower expectations on its implementation.
It’s not going to happen, it’ ALREADY happening in my recent experiences
I’ve heard of an internet platform called ‘Solid’ by Inrupt (company) spearheaded by Timothy Berners-Lee (of internet creation fame who has become very disillusioned with current state of internet) where in theory people would control their own data in pods and grant access only to whom they want.
Anyone have any thoughts, insight on this? It’s not up and running yet but seems intriguing. I’m not a tech guru but I’m always trying to find some form of privacy/security if that’s even possible anymore.
Maybe previous poster is right- only way to get that is to talk to someone face to face ….
It is born out of MIT. We are messing with it now. https://solidproject.org/
The real problem is the same problem I see with bitcoin. privacy and security is great until the technology is outlawed. The easiest thing for the government to do is to first outlaw certain tech and second, make their “business plants” the winners.
In the end, I see a couple things… AI is not owned by anyone. Yes, Open AI has the lead and google has money to catch up but there will be AI for everyone and there will be AI technology coming that is open source, for the common tech world and can be used by everyone for everything. Similar to open source, there will be an AI that is “free” for you to program on your own and trust. The common man won’t lose the tech war, it is just that big tech is way ahead. Compare it to mainstream media vs independent media. 20 years ago, Rush was the counter example to mainstream media. Now look at media today, the independent media is quickly becoming king. Tech will go that way in the next 20 years. MSFT and GOOG will lose dominance 20 years from now.
My final point on tech is that at this point in time, when big tech has such an advantage, low-tech or no-tech become bullet proof. Talking to someone in person, posting a flyer in the town square… those are the weapons that government and big tech cannot compete with. And as trust is lost in the virtual world, it will be gained in the real world.
The artist Salbo is a great example of this. https://ibb.co/Lk4Q74Y
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Brilliant! God Bless You, Sundance … a great read, and looking forward to your completed research, investigation, and conclusions.
It’s a Brave New Normal indeed …
SD….do you believe this will also negate the purpose of using a Tor Browser ?
Imagine standing on a soap box in the town square shouting into a bull horn as loud as can be. But you are invisible and not only can no-one see you they can’t hear you.
That is shadow banning and the Big Tech companies are cooperating with hotline links between them so if one is shadow banning you, it won’t be long before the others add you to their shadow ban list.
What’s next? Well a nation state digital currency of course! Digital currency (bitcoin, etc.) all use what is called the Blockchain. It’s a digital ledger and it is FOREVER. Every single transaction you make is recorded on the blockchain. Each individual or corporate entity has a unique encryption based hash code. Basically a unique number that represents your identity. Each transaction also has a unique number associated with it. The blockchain looks like multiple columns of seemingly random numbers. You can see your own transactions. If government creates a blockchain and they know your unique hash code they can decode your transactions. Well of course, the government would tie you to your hash code! It would be a requirement of everyone. Then they can see your transaction history all the way back to the start of the digital currency. They already have extensive data on file about every citizen. Big Tech has been selling the data they collect to the government.
Tie in a sub-dermal implanted chip and you can wave your hand to make payments, etc. That is way too close to the Book of Revelations….
Digital currency is not like cash and its not private at all if the governments control the currency. They will eventually hijack the system by creating their own digital currencies and then they will outlaw cash money and all other digital currencies. Add in some A.I. tech and now you have a potential digital machine-god overseeing the population.
China already have implemented a social credit score. If you are not a good Communist, you cannot buy, sell, conduct business, travel by bus, train, boat or air.
If you can find the TV show called Black Mirror, many of the episodes predict such a dystopian future.
the web today is full of garbage and it needs a bath
Long story. Reading CTH makes me hopeful. At age 60, on workers comp after double rotator cuff injuries, I went back to school and majored in Interdisciplinary Art at that great socialist institution, University of Washington. I didn’t realize when I set out, that the purpose of the study was to insert “ messages” into any form of “art.” Plainly said, interdisciplinary art weaves propaganda into visual art. Read the book, “Crafting the Truth,” to find just how people can be deceived into believing, for instance, men can give birth to babies. My point is, the messages may be subtle or overt, but I do guarantee this, AI cannot read a visual image for “content.” That is not to say that AI is not capable of facial recognition, but that would be the limit of content reading. So a picture of President Trump (#FreeT) might be dangerously derogatory, the fact that he’s leading an army of patriots down a particular pathway would be missed. There is hope.
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H ow did you get those Google Crawl results? Are they available for any site? I noticed that about 6 months ago, the number of hits on my website dropped by abouy 80 percent overnight.
It’s not coming. Online censorship and shadow banning has been here for the past 10 years and started with YooToob, 0Hedge and other g00gl3 platforms. Very real and completely neuters one’s online identity.
Naet ticrk. Myabe tihs wlil be our fturue “are you a rboot” tset.
Funnily enough, Meta is open-sourcing their AI to the world. The right people are freaking out about it, which is proof it’s a good thing.
So sitting here at my computer this morning, I read a Substack from someone who just followed me on SS leading me to glance at her articles and one was about Shadowbanning. I am going to put the link because she took the time to gather some real data from using an ad and you may be interested. Then I came directly to this article to read the 30,000 ft view. We’re going to have to get quiet as doves and wily as wolves.
https://www.starfirecodes.com/p/are-you-shadowbanned-on-twitterx-heres-why
Her article ties it back to the subscriber monetization scheme and how it is allowing X to control who is able to access that feature. They slipped in a view requirement and they can control the views basically.