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Mar 9 06:49 UTC 2021

#37 I had an Alexa echo (the newer round one with the clock) in my 
bedroom that I was using as an alarm clock.
I watched a documentary on The Surveillance Economy and before it was 
over, had dug up my 1990 Sony Dream Machine and relocated the Echo to my
 shed in the back yard. 

My reasoning previously was, "no one is talking much" in around my 
bedroom but now knowing that it's likely picking up conversations in the
 hall, knowing what I'm my TV is doing, listening in on my work from
home  meetings in the next room, etc. I decided enough was enough. 

I have two phones - one I used for work (I pay for that one) and another
 for personal. I had already downgraded the home phone to an LG flip 
classic. On Sunday I ordered a Kyocera Duramax XV flip phone from 
Verizon for my work uses. I also canceled my Apple Watch cell account on
 Sunday and I'm now wearing my old Casio G Shock. I'm not leaving the 
house with a smart phone ever again unless it has no sim, is wifi only 
(no cell service) and is using VPN. These big tech overlords will only 
get away with destroying America and our freedoms IF WE LET THEM. 

I've also started using RSS news feeds a while back rather than opening 
apps on my tablet. My car has GPS; that should be enough. Canceled 
Siriux XM for the car in January. Little by little, I'm detaching the 
strings. I can't get the wife or son to detach from their connections 
though I can tell you my kid never uses Facebook and the wife hates it 
now and only occasionally looks at it. Big tech has created a monster 
and I don't think they realize yet how people despise them. The 
Lilliputians are surrounded the giant with tiny ropes. I wonder how far 
down the line it will go before enough Lilliputians grab a rope before 
it all starts to come undone? 

At that point, I expect the government and corporations to force us to 
use smartphones to do simple every day tasks to keep the fiefdom and the
 spy apparatus alive. "Save the AI to save AMERICA!"