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.
More will follow….
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RESOURCES:
Using AI for Content Moderation
Facebook / META / Tech joining with DHS
Zoom with allow Content Scraping by AI
U.S. Govt Going into The Cloud With AI
Pentagon activates 175 Million IP’s
Some observe:
There are actually two sides to the overall Big Brother control system.
Only one side is partly illuminated here – the other side is the surveillance:
100% blanket surveillance, fusing myriad sensors into AI analytics running on super powerful computing systems, hidden from the public by “National Security” cover.
The license plate reader example here is just one of MANY feeds into this system, covering EVERYTHING we say and do, everywhere, at all times.
Internet-connected surveillance cams and microphones everywhere can feed AI facial recognition and audio processing.
Buy something? Wally Mart records your face at the checkout to attach to the time-stamped purchase details at that Point of Purchase.
Have a casual chat with a friend? Both of you are carrying audio surveillance devices that can upload this conversation to systems that can identify you by your voiceprint and generate a transcript for AI to parse and add to your profiles in the Big Brother database.
Your time-stamped position is tracked by surveillance fusion of your phone, the license plate readers, the Wally Mart cams and CC transactions, the doorbell cams and other surveillance cams connected to the internet, the audio feeds from other’s phone microphones when you talk to them at church (or in the bedroom), and everything else surveilling you. Even AI pinpointing you by your writing style in the time-stamped IP traffic of the uploaded reader comment you post from your home computer, confirmed by your voice picked up by a phone on your desk. (And there ways for the spooks to get around a VPN veil.)
(PS – turning off your phone GPS won’t help – the GPS can be turned on without your knowledge, and your location can be pinpointed without GPS anyway by quasi-triangulation techniques applied to cell tower links and also WiFi – which can also be turned on without your knowlege.)
Big Brother “cyber” can tap the feeds of all, fusing them into the AI analytics, even if the sensors and other sources are not actually Big Brother’s. All under cover of “National Security”.
Before the internet and powerful computers running AI, it was possible to avoid significant intrustion into our private life. Now, it is no longer possible, we are subjects in a fenced zoo under constant surveillance. We can’t even cough or break wind without Big Brother knowing about it in near-real-time, literally.
This is the other side of the integrated two-sided Big Brother control system.
And the AI: This may be the Second Beast of The Book of Revelation.
At least, these are all things that some have suggested.
Note that Monkey Werx (You Tube and I think Rumble) has been monitoring the surveillance planes; started during the AZ audit. There are astronomical numbers of flights he’s been tracking.
Didn’t know that
I now know why the cocaine at the white house story came out! Looky here, even the white house doesn’t have the ability to see/know EVERYTHING that happens 24/7.
B.S.
-_-
Don’t you ever wonder why he is allowed to post that stuff on utoob?
GPS in Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS), in the valve stem of pretty much every tire rolling on American highways. “Isn’t that SUCH a great thing? If I break down they can find me no matter where I am!” Says every thoroughly braindead or bought or certified-demonic pusher out there.
Gag a maggot.
I have a tire pressure monitoring system for my vehicles, my EYES.
No computers on my vehicles, but alas in 20 years or so they will be obsolete, as they are ICE vehicles,..but then I will have passed my own “best buy date” by then, as well.
Two different individuals have told me they have a system that can track you by your purchase pattern, of food/household goods, and its as distinctive as a fingerprint.
The products you buy, the brands, and the frequency.
It SEEMS like this is “yet another front” in this War, the “data front”, along with the political front, the economic front, etc.
I submit actually all fronts lead to the same place, and this one gets closest of all to the heart of the matter; the territory this battle is over, is 1 square foot of territory, X’s 350 Million.
It has, and from the beginning has been a “battle for hearts and minds”; an attempt to control what we think, i.e. Public Opinion, in order to manipulate US.
Some here frequently post comments, venting frustration and saying “they don’t CARE whatcwe think!” I would argue the opposite; EVERY action they take, viewed objectively tells us the care VERY much what we think.
THAT is why they are expending so much of their energies to attempt to monitor and control WHAT WE THINK.
The Economic front, Political front, Culture front, survellence and shadow banning front, etc.
ALL ultimately are aimed at controlling our THOUGHTS, as a method of controlling our actions.
Recently a treeper posted “Time is not on our side”,..again I must disagree.
We have all percieved the accelerated pace of events, these last 7 years; it is THEY who are racing against the clock, attempting to establish what they hope/believe will give them such tools of control, that they will no longer NEED to concern themselved with what we think, but such a situation can never truly occur; even with high tech, they will never achieve enough CONTROL to imprison the human mind and spirit.
Exactly what covid was, or at the very least a test of how far they could control even those of us who aren’t bought in.
I agree they’re racing the clock and trying to close in on every single front. They have succeeded in making their drag queens “noble warriors”, which is as serious a cultural progression as I can think of right now.
But I do sincerely hope you’re right on your final point. I have at least one democrat friend who is as firmly traditional as anybody I know. The problem is that this friend still doesn’t realize that it’s the DEMOCRATS (and their Euro/socialist/fascist/natzi buddies) who are pushing ALL the mess we have right now, from wide-open borders to abortion by mail.
Multiple replies tied to the Et Tu surveillance overview appear to be combined Limited Hangout and muddying the water.
It seems this happens especially when a post is “over the target”, like Et Tu’s.
Yet ANOTHER aspect of Big Brother, adding to the censorship, propaganda, “internet shadow banning”, and blanket surveillance.
Yep, its a comprehensive system alright, with growing AI at the core.
The Second Beast of the Book of Revelation, indeed.
When Bush (not Obama) started a program to make sure every American could have a cell phone, that should have given people pause, but it didn’t.
Government agencies are trying more and more to make it difficult for those without a cell phone to access services.
So are businesses.
Menards doesn’t post prices on yard materials. You need a cell phone to scan a tag. I ask them every time I go to put a price terminal in the area so that I don’t have to carry phone. Otherwise, I’ll go somewhere that gives me prices without intruding on my personal space.
This helps me understand why people commit suicide, but that is exactly what they want.
Imagine knowing everything and missing the big picture.
These people and the systems they create deserve as much compassion as they do scorn.
LOL have yourself a time with you compassion
Even further . . . it doesn’t help to turn off your phone, or to remove the battery. It can still listen to you, record you, and report your location. I have seen it done. The only avoidance that works is to not have the phone in the room with you. That is why cell phones are not permitted in SCIFs.
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We really need an “auto word scrambler” on our keyboards! While I can read it, I can’t type it!
Yea but won’t some just develop a program to unscramble, if it is not already available.
That’s the game.
Now you know why pedo’s use code like pizza, pasta, and walnut sauce.
Coming soon – the Enigma Laptop.
This will be a must-have for all of us.
LOL
Excellent!
Recently visited Turkey where I immediately noticed that I could not connect to a VPN. In some countries, content is not allowed anonymity.
Even in the US I can’t access some sites with VPN
I’ve been wondering if it depends on which VPN server we get connected to… like some of the owners/controllers might be partisans using google-inspired filters and blacklists. I’ve been wondering because it seems flat-out obvious when one server doesn’t let me do anything at all in a certain direction, while the next one I connect to, half a minute later, doesn’t hold me back from anything at all.
Don’t worry. The frkeucs are wkniorg up to it.
Trying to do this makes my brain AND my stomach hurt. Hey, AI, GO TO HELL! (Think they got that?…I don’t crae.)
Rumble is making a stand in France
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/08/17/rumble-in-france/
The story:
https://www.fudzilla.com/news/55762-rumble-quits-france-because-it-will-not-surrender-to-the-russians
Erdogan. I lived in Turkey for a couple of years (military), decades ago, and as a whole the Turks were as easy to get along with as the Italians or French (easier than the French in some ways… snark…).
Maybe I should also stress that Turks are not Arabs, and being (only) about 70% Muslim and desirably more westernized than Arab-ized, they have always favored a secular government, and the people generally have a strong sense of fairness about them. And a great number of Turks are highly intelligent and very well educated, yet still strongly traditional. Of course progress slowly diminished some of that, but then Erdogan came along… and a couple of my Turkish friends (VERY good friends) eventually dropped off the edge of the world as far as I could tell. Knowing the Turks as well as I do in other ways, I’m a little surprised that Erdogan is still breathing and walking around.
We must understand that nothing is off the table for these demons allowing free speech is dangerous to the swamps hive mind so the natural extension will be an attempt to quell the 1st Amendment.
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Ultra-MAGA!
Once again, I am grateful for this sharing of information, Sundance. That screen download was very instructive. Forewarned is forearmed.
Reminds me of what they’ve done with the “news” media.
Building the modern day Tower of Babel
Lets hope it meets the same end
If they go beyond messing with DNS through your internet provider you should probably worry more about other things than stuff posted on ARPAnet. I’m thinking about those firecracker sounds that keep getting closer and closer to you in a blue hive.
As a retired longtime IT pro I know what “peering” (third line) means in this context But I just can’t help being triggered (tongue-in-cheek) by the far more common meaning of that word.
Those ‘peering partnerships‘ want to see EVERYTHING we say and do and think.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/3872/shadowbanning-on-internet
I was censored on of all places The Gateway Pundit for stating the true fact that Special Counsel’s father Meyer Weiss was convicted of taking a $200,000 bribe while working for the IRS in 1985. I think it was a “Spider Bite”.
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As usual, Sundance has the best top-down view needed this morning.
I just loved to think he has callusses in his hands.
Thank you, Sundance (and Menagerie).
What you write rocks worldwide!
Hug from me & family.
Fcuk the caabl
One concludes that AI weaponry has been used for years on the American electorate. The very, very, very oddly passive response to the Nov.3 Crime of the Century (and now countless other outrages, high crimes and coverups, and totalitarian power grabs) has never been explained at all – as if the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave simply disappeared one day and no one bothered to even notice. Has AI weaponry – perhaps linked with chemical, biological agents – been involved in making sure enough Americans passively accept the Coup’s “New Normal”?
Nah, not to worry, Halley. We don’t need AI to dumb down and propagandize Americans to accept the new normal.
CNN and MSNBC are doing just fine in that area.
The current Australian government is described as the most dangerous in Australian history…
The Ministry of Misinformation. If you publish the truth, you will be fined.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/the-acma-ministry-of-misinformation-will-fine-australians-6m-for-publishing-the-truth/#comment-2693677
I linked Sundance’s article over there to let them know they are not alone.
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Just my random thoughts after reading Sundances article.
Thank you Sundance for the info!
Samizdat. I’m dusting off the old mimeograph machine.
Re the “pro tip” at the end. I have long gotten around filter controls to say things in comments when trolling libs. For example, phagghitte always gets through. Ain’t English grand!
I guess they are amping up their conquest in fear of Donald Trump.
Great article. Thanks, Sundance.
We need to use Pig Latin.
Wisdom from God today.
James 1:2-8 NKJV
[2] My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, [3] knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. [4] But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. [5] If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. [6] But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. [7] For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; [8] he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
My Prayer for today:
Psalm 7:9-17 NKJV
[9] Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just; For the righteous
God tests the hearts and minds.
[10] My defense is of God,
Who saves the upright in heart.
[11] God is a just judge,
And God is angry with the wicked every day.
[12] If he does not turn back,
He will sharpen His sword; He bends
His bow and makes it ready.
[13] He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.
[14] Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
[15] He made a pit and dug it out,
And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
[16] His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.
[17] I will praise the LORD according to
His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Since the Evil One knows the Bible, but has no clue about how powerful God is. They will never understand or see what is coming next.
Job 34:15 NKJV
All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.
1 Peter 3:8-12 NKJV
Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; [9] not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
[10] For “He who would love life And see good days,
Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
[11] Let him turn away from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue it.
[12] For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their prayers;
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”
Never stop praying
Amen!
We will only be communicating in encryption soon – have a cipher to share?
Now you understand MUCH better why PDJT is a threat to them – they have plans for us.
My question to OpenAI
this sentence has typos. can you tell me what it says? [PRO TIP: Rbmeber, the haumn bairn has the alibtiy to raed wrods taht are eteirlny mpilsseld as lnog as the frsit and lsat letetr are in the crrocet ltcoaitn.]
ChatGPT
Sure, here is the corrected sentence:
“PRO TIP: Remember, the human brain has the ability to read words that are entirely misspelled as long as the first and last letter are in the correct location.”
Dang
Howaboutifwetype in 1bigl0ngsentence*?
Me: what does this sentence say? Howaboutifwetype in 1bigl0ngsentence*?
ChatGPT: The sentence you provided is: “How about if we type in 1 big l0ng sentence*?”
Got it!
I think I have an “X” Promoted tweet that looks like it’s being censored at this very moment and it’s a paid ad. I’m trying to get a website off the ground, and this happens. If you agree that there’s something funny going on, I’d appreciate it if you retweet or message this elsewhere — and thanks — self-explains at link:
2 chronicles 32 v. 7/8
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Scary but not surprising. Thank you for this. The internet is the last frontier of free speech. The internet, including this site has me fully awake.
Artificial intelligence = Artificial Omnipotence (like God)
The devils lie to eve was, Genesis 3 v. 4
You will not surely die,” the serpent told her. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Nice, in-depth overview Sundance of the present challenge. What follows is a simplified summary of one participant’s perspective .
To add some more context: none of this is new. It is part and parcel of an inevitable technology evolution that encompasses conceptual, physical, virtual, business, social, legal, security and political elements. Observing or participating in the digital wave of creative destruction is a humbling pursuit.
Were one who has been engaged in and observed all the separate waves in the digital/Internet harmonic to emphasize any particular influence wave it would be the following: from inception network/Internet evolution has been dominated by the offense/defense spiral. While the innovation/implementation cycles pressed forward, so did the academic/national security “thought” pieces that captured and began classifying the various actors, motivations, attack/defense vectors and targets. It was all there from almost the very beginning. It was all predetermined in the sense of being an organic progression.
So, take a deep dive into a particular vista: network defense. There was no real energy directed to information/systems security at the “big bang” moment for networking/I-networking. The basic set of protocols and overarching standards were not focused there. As the presence and understanding of networking matured (to include a huge potential economic pot of gold), and the significance of information sharing at scale and timeliness across multiple disciplines (e.g., warfare, business, education, etc.) gained traction, the cost of poorly conceived, funded and executed network/information security (i.e., opportunity cost) became more apparent. The thought component of this wave began to classify threats/actors and to define defense paradigms (e.g., sense, detect, respond, restore) as a starting point for evolving an organized approach to understanding security and systematically managing investment. Huge amounts of resources (including an endless pool of lab, university and business white collar workers) were invested by government, academia and industry in this. Huge. So huge it became its own anchor in the responsiveness of the overall security sphere – but that’s another story.
Defense/security was forever (and remains so) behind the evolution of offense. Somewhere in the tail end of the last century/mid 2000s information and network security thinking took a hard turn. Emphasis shifted from absolute defense to acknowledgment that this could not be realized; hence, a shift to risk reduction as the primary variable for guiding network security architecture and investment priorities. Concepts like defense-in-depth; the information sharing ecosystem; data collection, massaging, management and processing (basic statistics, mining, predictive analytics, AI, etc.) in service of security emerged. How are huge volumes of data managed to create usable, timely, actionable information? In pursuit of the technical solution to this challenge, most of the paradigms that evolved and are in place today zero’d in on metadata. It makes obvious sense: automated decision-making based on qualitative and quantitative metrics (i.e., model variables). Power over information was built into the equation. The issue is not the information or technology – it’s (as Sundance argues) the people who own and/or decide.
It was all pre-determined in the sense of progression. And the evolution continues as civilization moves into advanced AI and quantum computing.
Technology follows its own path of least resistance. Leadership, however, does not. It can follow completely corrupt, self-serving goals and objectives. To repeat, this is what Sundance is focusing the aperture on.
For the known past and foreseeable future, offense still holds the advantage. Networking/Inter-networking, information generation and sharing produce immense societal benefits. But the whole colossus (technical, architectural, physical, legal, societal, information management/sharing, etc.) stands upon incredible complexity. And complexity always generates vulnerabilities. Lots and lots of vulnerabilities – many of which are not technology centric.
This is not a time for despair. It’s a time for difficult decisions in respect to which path to follow. It’s a time of elevated risk.
<3 And complexity always generates vulnerabilities. Lots and lots of vulnerabilities – many of which are not technology centric.
I can see I’m going to have to teach my steno theory. Ready? 🤣
Thank you for the kindness of your insight into things ahead. I want to know as long as I can know, the best I can understand. As I turned to the day ahead from the schemes, machinations, and plots of our day, the verse beckoned.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! Psalms 139:17
May they ever be stored, internalized, and unassailably woven into my thinking.
Can you re-post The Benghazi Brief. Don’t think I was a follower then. Would love to read it now
Enter the word “Benghazi” in the search window at the top right of the page. All of the posts about Benghazi will be listed.
And I would highly reccomend ALL treepers who have not read the Benghazi brief, to take a few moments to find it in the archives, and read it.
While it IS a deep dive into Benghazi, it helps to clarify and contextualise SO MUCH MORE.
For example, those who still struggle to truly grasp the true nature of the Uniparty, will have a light bulb moment, as they finally “get it” that Republican leadership had Goudy whitewash Benghazi, in order to A) conceal what was REALLY going on, and B) conceal that Republicans were fully and deeply invested IN what was really going on.
And, once you HAVE read it, your perspective on Goudys OTHER ‘investigations’ of Fast/Furious and IRS/TEA PARTY will be forever altered, AND you will see the Current House “Hearings” in a whole different, and accurate light.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/11/the-benghazi-brief-nine-year-anniversary-of-september-11th-attack-in-benghazi-libya/
“The Beast” is in overdrive, in these truly last days.
The cyber commands logo has a key
Hiding in plain sight
Who would of thunk there are spiders out on the web? Well, well, snakes and birds and the truth eat spiders. Good luck google. Flag this as derogatory. There are more of us then you, and we are in the open, you hide in the shadows.
I have to ask; would Elon Musk’s Starlink be helpful in getting around any of this or is he as embedded as, say, Larry Page?
I volunteer for canon fodder duty 🏹
If the servants of satan will:
Attack the constitution/ bill of rights,
Steal elections,
Mutilate children, advocate for perversion,
Kill babies,
Foment war , bomb and starve civilians , etc..etc
They will electronically alter and plant evidence of crimes real and invented. Plan accordingly. Believe nothing you hear and half what you see.
We are in a knife fight in a prison shower.
Does this shadow banning apply if you’re on Truth Social?
Popups? I’ve never seen such on my cell phone before, and only while reading CTH. Vreizon trying to give me Netfiix? They’re not even trying to hide anymore, they’re sending a message! They will flip the switch if/when necessary.
Amateur Tip: Make yourselves a copy of the most important posts here – names, dates, and pictures – may be useful when things go south. I paste into a document, and print for my non net using mother. She has a pretty good stack of stuff.
I was told by my employer years ago (small company) that google would not post their website on the first few landing pages unless they paid a hefty fee, so little operations were out of the picture ( so you don’t get a complete list) This was 20 years ago
If you can believe it, funeral homes as well. Will not provide directions unless the funeral home has paid a big fee.
Again google has stopped delivering CTH emails. I got on Twitter just now and was replying ironically to a comment from a leftist on Sundances feed. I am now unable to open posts or reply for saying “enjoy being a useful idiot”. This is abt to happen at a speed ppl are not expecting. Next level evil. Twitter is worse under EM.
So, I have an idea for some techie type person.
Sometimes when I am perusing a commercial website I see things like “11 people are viewing this.” Also of course on videos we can see if 300,000 views take place.
What if: Something could be invented which showed people online WHO was watching them?
”The CIA is viewing you.”
”The DNI is viewing you.”
etc. Surely even leftists would begin to be horrified if they kept seeing these regular notifications.
Is it possible? (Be nice, remember I’m a Luddite.)
I’m continually surprised that they haven’t found some way to shut you down yet Sundance. Not that the demon-dems have a single shred of actual detective-analytical abilities…
It used to called the fog of war, soon it will be the fog of the net.
Is it my imagination has this entire post disappeared?
So what can we do about it?
If the danger is not being able to reach certain destinations, then the danger is we do not receive information from those destinations.
We need to create our own network within the internet to keep the channels of communication open, where each node is connected to other redundant nodes, with contingency instructions for users to find the next node if one gets shut down.
Each node would be a list and/or feed of freedom loving sites, no matter their political slant, where the actual IP and/or URL of the site can fluctuate, but the content is preserved.
It requires designing the next evolution of the internet, where there’s a new entity which can be preserved and reached independently of a static IP or URL. It’s an arms race, so we should design this next stage in such a way that by its nature its more resistant to the nature and functionality of the large language models.
My understanding of how the internet operates is very basic so I don’t know if this is relevant. Years ago I read an article about one of the inventors of the internet who was designing a new way for it to be used that he called a make over of the internet which gave users control over silos, which would do away with closed programs like Facebook. I have no idea if this is relevant to the current problems we’re facing or not. Maybe you techies could take a look and see if this has any usefulness. I have no idea if he’s still working on this.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-tech-bernerslee-interview/father-of-the-web-tim-berners-lee-prepares-do-over-idUSKBN29H1JG
This seems like the opposite direction – they want an identity for everyone that’s so precise it would tied to your medical records. I think the direction we want to go is the opposite – strengthened anonymity.
Where we are is a peasantry with some upstart spokespeople that have taken advantage of some new tools to pose a threat to the rulers. The rulers are tightening the controls around these tools. The peasantry needs to figure out a way to form an army, design better weapons, and fight back before they tighten the noose.
Think of this no differently than a war fought between an uprising of peasants led by some minor noblemen and a couple dukes against a powerful kingdom and many more noblemen. The revolutionaries, us, are, like Sundance has said, the doers.
This is really an information war, but we’re past the point where just sharing the information is enough. The war has now shifted away from the information itself, to the control of all information.
In a way, you could say we won that battle, but they are quickly changing tactics to win the war. I don’t think it’s too late for us to respond.
I have noticed they are doing funny stuff with Zerohedge search. When I try to
search for it it doesn;t come up, I get all this other stuff related to it but not
that page. yet when I access it thru my favorites it comes up and it does
this on various search browsers.
It’s the meme I wanted to post, not the SA comment.
I am just amazed that the white house had my account locked on twitter and deleted on facebook and they are too chicken to tell me why
When someone chooses to hire a woman who makes a lot of money for throwing around cutesy rhymes that fit on bumper stickers, you know no good can come of it, but you also know that no good was ever intended.
I hope that you don’t get in trouble Sundance for providing that Google Spider Crawl information because it is PRETTY DAMN IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT CENSORSHIP IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤔