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Grex Agora Item 55: The censorship item
Entered by walkman on Wed Jul 1 12:11:46 UTC 2020:

The same people behind "peaceful" riots, arson, violence and murder are
now pressuring corporations to pull ads from facebook until "hate" is
censored.

Facebook will ultimately capitulate, just like the corporations.

What will the end result be? What is "hate"?

We can look to our Silicone Valley overlords to tell us. 
Time after time, conservative political speech is labeled hate. 
Anything that disagrees with the narrative.

Say there are two genders? HATE.
Say that you agree with border controls? HATE.
When POTUS said he would send military to stop riots, it was labeled by
Twitter as "hate". There are many examples.

Don't get me wrong, actual hate speech should be shunned and discouraged
but holding one political view set as sacred while labeling all others
"hate speech" is the dangerous and irresponsible in a supposedly free
society. 

Where do you think this will end? Will Facebook start broad-brushing
speech and labeling users using their AI as "hate"?

There's evidence that conservative speech is being pushed into a ghetto.
If they stay on Twitter/Facebook, their speech is shadow banned; visible
only to the user posting - or relegated to other hidden status. Users
are hidden, deplatformed, labeled and systematically 'unfriended' from
others.  People are flocking to Telegram, Gab, and Parler.  Predictably,
those services once trending are quickly labeled as a haven for racism
and hate speech and the PC lynch mob demands the apps are taken down
from Apple and Google app stores. 

In the meantime the wall of PC mainstream media groupthink starts to
repeat the familiar 2+2=5 untruths. "There's no such thing as Antifa."
"Social media is not censoring and silencing conservatives. That's been
debunked." etc.

SEE:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-antifa-threat-is-total-bullshitand-t
otally-dangerous

SEE ALSO:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-facebook-censoring-conservative-news
/ 

Do you also think that people can win elections with these tactics?
----------------------------------
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ads-boycott-idUSKBN2424GS
Facebook frustrates advertisers as boycott over hate speech kicks off

Sheila Dang
5-6 minutes

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertisements for more than 400
brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook
on Wednesday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott
over hate speech on the site.

U.S. civil rights groups have enlisted the multinationals to help
pressure the social media giant into taking concrete steps to block hate
speech in the wake of the death of George Floyd and amid a national
reckoning over racism..

Facebook executives including Carolyn Everson, vice president of global
business solutions, and Neil Potts, public policy director, held at
least two meetings with advertisers on Tuesday, the eve of the planned
one-month boycott, three sources who participated in the calls told
Reuters.

But the executives offered no new details on how they would tackle hate
speech, the sources said. Instead, they pointed back to recent press
releases, frustrating advertisers on the calls who believe those plans
do not go far enough.

 It s simply not moving,  said one executive at a major ad agency of the
conversations.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with the
organizers of the boycott, a spokeswoman said late Tuesday.

U.S. civil rights groups including the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and
Color of Change started the  Stop Hate for Profit  campaign after the
death of Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a white police
officer last month.

The groups outlined 10 demands for Facebook including allowing people
who experience severe harassment to speak with a Facebook employee and
giving refunds to brands whose ads show up next to offensive content
that is later removed.

Facebook said earlier this week it would submit to an audit of its hate
speech controls, adding to plans to label newsworthy content that would
otherwise violate its policies, following similar practices at other
social media platforms such as Twitter Inc.

One digital ad agency representative who participated in a call on
Tuesday said Facebook executives referred repeatedly to the audit,
without offering additional concessions.

Facebook executives have reached out to chief executives, board members
and chief marketing officers of major advertisers to talk them out of
the boycott, two people briefed on the discussions told Reuters. All the
sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on
the record. ADVERTISING TEST

The boycott will be a test for advertisers on how to reach billions of
consumers without relying on the largest social media platform in the
world, an executive at a major ad agency said.

Companies that run ads in order to promote their brand image rather than
to make direct sales are less beholden to Facebook. Many of these,
including the multinational advertisers who have joined up with the
boycott, will begin to plot how they can achieve the same goals without
Facebook, the executive said.

For Facebook, the boycott is unlikely to have a big financial impact.
The top 100 brands on Facebook in 2019 likely brought in only 6% of
Facebook s total $70 billion in annual revenue, according to a
Morningstar research note citing Pathmatics data, which measures most
types of advertising on the platform. Facebook said last year its top
100 advertisers accountED for less than 20% of total ad revenue.

News of the boycott wiped away $56 billion from Facebook s market
capitalization after an 8% drop in its stock on Friday. But shares
recovered 3% on Tuesday and are actually trading 8% higher year to date.
ZUCKBERG PRESENCE

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg last week asked to meet
with the campaign organizers along with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox,
Zuckerberg s long-time friend, who returned to Facebook this month after
resigning over the company s direction last year. 

111 responses total.



#1 of 111 by papa on Wed Jul 1 23:16:37 2020:

"Hate speech" is the most-abused term in English today, especially
because there are so many otherwise reasonable people who
unquestioningly accept the validity of its application and the
justness of proposed sanctions.

That said, I feel schadenfreude to see progressive-biased social media
services hoist by their own petard and censor themselves into
increasing irrelevance.


#2 of 111 by walkman on Thu Jul 2 00:21:27 2020:

Agreed.
Now, what can we do to fight being labeled and attacked by giant
corporations, NGOs, George Soros, hollywood, news media, the Deep State
and half of American voters?

Are most conservatives too cozy to get angry enough to start their own
demonstrations? To exercise power? Or do they just cower and complain?


#3 of 111 by papa on Thu Jul 2 06:19:34 2020:

resp:2
I think most conservatives are putting their bets on weathering the storm and
rebuilding after the stinking mess completes its collapse. We are Wile E.
Coyote watching between our feet as the valley floor rushes up to meet us.


#4 of 111 by walkman on Thu Jul 2 23:11:52 2020:

After receiving a $150 million investment from the Chinese Communist 
government, reddit has banned over 2000 communities. 

Guess who they targeted?

When will people rise up? Vote with their dollars?

#3 Its not enough imo. I'm certain the election will be rigged this 
time. All bets are off and these people are desperate enough. 


#5 of 111 by papa on Thu Jul 2 23:19:00 2020:

resp:4
One comfort is that "these people" are the ones who got Hillary Clinton
elected president.


#6 of 111 by tod on Sun Jul 5 13:33:09 2020:

re #4
 When will people rise up? Vote with their dollars?

Aren't they?  


#7 of 111 by walkman on Fri Jul 10 16:46:51 2020:

#5 Hillary is POTUS and I'm just finding out?

#6 Some people are throwing hissy fits and others are just complaining 
about it. No one is rising up and all dollars seem to be going to taxes 
and China. 

Wait until people see what happens when the Fed stops QE.
There are so many ways to "defeat Trump" but they all involve destroying
 the economy and putting many of us out of work.

The people with armed guards that live in gated communities want us to 
live without law enforcement and stay in our homes.

Celebrities always know what's best. Maybe we can all get a guaranteed 
income from the loving government. A pair of Air Jordans on every table.


#8 of 111 by tod on Sat Jul 11 18:26:18 2020:

NYSE:
RGR
VSTO
OLN

Buy low, Sell High

I wish I was being smug but this is also a real things.  
RGR (Ruger) in Sep 2019 was $40.62 - today it's $76+
Vista Outdoor (VSTO) in Sep 2019 was $4.41 - today it's $14.66
Olin Corp (OLN) in Sep 2019 was $21.35 - today it's $11.13

Ok, so what happened to Olin? They make ammo and chlorine so you'd think
with COVID and Preppers they'd be making bank - nope.  Supplies were
affected by Canadian rail strikes by Teamsters.  Guess how Teamsters
do their voting?  It isn't at a booth.
Also throw in the crazy soviet republic of California which makes ammo
purchasing a hassle with triplicate forms and electronic surveillance.
You can't walk into Big 5 and buy a box...you have to do tons of 
paperwork and wait around for big brother on a terminal (State Gov) to
approve.  It's easier to adopt a baby - but they're not as accurate 
coming out of the t-shirt cannon.
OLN is screwed by the anti 2nd Amendment commies - China rubs its military
hands together and grins.


#9 of 111 by tod on Wed Jul 15 21:48:49 2020:

Today
RGR (Ruger) is $78.20..up from $40.62 in Sep19
VSTO (Vista Outdoor) is $14.63
OLN is $12.  Today, they changed CEO's. The new guy? He's from Prince
International. Who is Prince? They're owned by Palladium Equity Partners.
Palladium isn't that well known on the surface but lemme give you a hint
about this...they own Wise Foods (think MRE's and military)
So yea...GE and Friends of American Revolution thank you for your patronage.
Biden, Ukraine, and U.S. war planners want an obedient client states 
that will house major U.S. military bases, right at the heart of the worlds 
major energy reserves.  Biden and his $2T 100% Green Deal up next...



#10 of 111 by walkman on Thu Jul 16 12:56:25 2020:

Today while brushing my teeth what ran through my head was that 
after all of my life experience, studying business and looking at 
the world around me, the one thing that ties everything together is 
the basic tenants of capitalism: supply and demand, leverage, 
capital, finite resources, ideas/innovation.

Marxism is a lie.
They lure useful idiots with utopia and deliver a nightmare. 
The promise free things and take everything you have. 

Capitalism isn't something we can argue. It's a natural force.
It's jungle law.
Nowhere in the natural world in evolution, the animal kingdom or 
human civilization can anyone escape from supply and demand, 
leverage, capital, finite resources, ideas/innovation.

There are finite resources in the jungle. There is even a supply 
chain. Seeds fall from trees. Some are eaten, providing nutrients. 
Some propagate more trees. If there are too many seeds, something 
will balance this out. Everything in nature operates this way. If 
there's a too high of a demand for something, there is scarcity. 
This scarcity informs the jungle "market". The outcome determines 
who can survive and thrive. Just like in human capitalism. If a 
species adapts to a scenario to game the system, it dominates. 
Innovation. Adaptation. 

Even socialism, communism, monarchies, etc. can't get away from it. 
There is always a demand for goods and services. The supply chain 
tends to it. Scarcity determines value. No one can escape!

Promises of free food, water, education, medicine, cable TV etc. are 
all bogus. Someone has to cut the tree, kill the cow, run the power 
cables, serve the coffee. Basement dwellers won't be reclining in 
sofas with game controllers while being fed hot pockets. That's the 
promise. The reality is that under government control, no one owns 
the sofa. No one gets fed. Everyone is dependent. Everyone lives a 
life of futility. 

I know I'm preaching to the choir. I'm just pointing out the 
inevitability of capitalism and the futility of the promises/lies of 
snake charmers. And I'm also asking rhetorically why people aren't 
being told these things and why people continue to fall for the 
lies.


#11 of 111 by tod on Mon Jul 20 12:57:47 2020:

"Free stuff"
Hansel & Gretel
BLM and Social Justice are the bread crumbs left by the abandoned and lost
children as their parents leave those kids to fend for themselves in
the CHOP forest.  Those TikTok PS4 kids need too much - mostly time
and relevance from adoring adult figures.
Enter the witch with confectionary house of socialist promises.
Who's on the menu?
Famine, birth control, war, brutality, salt & pepper.



#12 of 111 by walkman on Tue Jul 21 14:27:03 2020:

Don't forget that any kid that doesn't fit in can waltz into any 
Planned Parenthood and have their junk chopped. They walk out with 
hormone meds. No doctor or shrink in the process. 

It is not ironic or coincidental that Planned Parenthood is using 
brute-force methods to remove reproductive capabilities. 

This is 100% part of the overall agenda.

"TikTok PS4 kids" - I like that. 
Purple hair, skinny jeans, tattoos, daddy/mommy issues, perpetual 
adolescence, inept not-a-man soyboys with facial hair and skull 
masks hitting anyone they disagree with using a hammer from dad's 
garage.


#13 of 111 by tod on Tue Jul 21 22:45:39 2020:

Free Junk Removal is my punk band
Hammer from Dad's Garage is the album
7-11 Lipstick is the new hit single
See where this is going?


#14 of 111 by walkman on Tue Jul 21 23:01:14 2020:

*walkman is now in a fetal position, shaking*


#15 of 111 by tod on Wed Jul 22 16:58:32 2020:

Where does the Epstein mystery machine distraction take everyone?
Is it a chocolate bunny for Clinton or Trump?
Do we really care that much about one of the movers and shakers of the 80's
who got caught being a pig like a majority of CEOs with too much time
and money and bountiful perversion?  In the big picture of a government
which has stopped applying lawful order and moral obligation to its
citizens?
How about the foreign affairs of the day? WHere is the news and outrage?


#16 of 111 by walkman on Fri Jul 24 11:00:57 2020:

Literally nothing in the world has happened since January 2016 if it 
didn't make Trump look bad.

Trump tried to make peace with NK, China, Turkey, Russia.
"Collusion","buddies with dictators"

Trump tried to equalize the trade imbalance with China.
"Trump is going to destroy the economy","Trump is ruining our 
economy and threatening the world with his trade wars"

Trump tried to pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Trump is abandoning our allies and threatening peace"

Trump lowered taxes on businesses and citizens.
"Trump's tax cuts have to go, they favor the rich!"

Trump allowed corporations to repatriate offshore money with a much 
smaller penalty. The result was an incredible influx of cash into 
the economy.
"Trump gives tax safe haven scoundrels a break"

We have seen the expansion (reversal of contraction) of 
manufacturing and the biggest boost in the economy in our lifetimes. 
To reward Trump, he has been met with fake news/hoax scandal after 
scandal. All of which were lies. 

We have seen a sitting president (Obama) sabotage the next POTUS 
with investigations and set him up for impeachment. 

We have seen democrats in Congress impeach a POTUS for a crime that 
a democrat VP did himself (Biden threatened/colluded with the 
Ukraine to benefit his son). 

Distraction after distraction, all of which hurts America and it's 
standing/peace/progress all to damage a sitting POTUS. 

They can rig polls and fake the news. They can lock us down and fake 
statistics. They can steal the next election. But they can't stop 
the world and the can't stop the American Spirit. I see it 
everywhere I go. The majority of the people are good, hard-working 
people. 

The Epstein thing will go nowhere. They won't allow it. There are 
way too many gremlins under the rug and too many powerful people 
with too many connections at stake. Whatever happened to Weiner's 
laptop (nothing)? Did you know that the Clinton aid that was busted 
trying to traffic children out of Haiti is in charge of the Amber 
Alert system? That's how the system thumbs its nose at us. Obama 
ordered all those hotdogs and pizza and it never arrived. 

Flashback: NPR 
Laura Silsby, Haiti 'Orphans' ' Would-Be Rescuer, Serial Rule 
Breaker
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-
way/2010/02/laura_silsby_haiti_orphans_wou.html

Child kidnapping = "rescuing orphans"
Nope, I'll believe in justice when I see it. 


#17 of 111 by tod on Fri Jul 24 14:21:51 2020:

New Life Children's Refuge 

Indeed...

This is gut wrenching - I can't even ponder on it.  Ugh


#18 of 111 by walkman on Wed Oct 21 01:59:14 2020:

walt winchell and joe mccartney were the bridge to 2020 identity 
politics and green grandstanding
Political theater injected into sitcoms, news, products, everyday life

Your breakfast cereal is literally Hitler
Your mother an agent of Russia
Your kid's teacher a blessing from God 
The state owns your kids and provides sustenance 
Say yes, roll up your sleeve
Get on your knee
Wear the mask
Say the right words
Join in the peaceful protest 
Meet your handlers
Acknowledge your privilege 
Apologize for existing 
Only BLM. Now say it!


#19 of 111 by tod on Wed Oct 21 11:47:34 2020:

Apologize for Niemann Marcus.  3-D Goggle Vacation. Supply chain hamster.
Work From Hel...Home until the lines blur between domestic and offshore.
Temperature checkpoints, social privilege detectors, agile, flexible, mind.
Interact starvation will result in groupthink juicebar vitamins disguised
as loving arms from Big Brother.
Demonstrate your allegiance - kill your infrastructure and society.
NWO will show you the way in the name of public health and earth healing.


#20 of 111 by walkman on Wed Oct 21 12:06:34 2020:

100%

We are being cowed. What comes after the conditioning is a 
nightmare.
People who think they are on the winning team are in for a VERY big 
surprise. 

Divide and conquer/divide and rule really does work historically.
We have been divided and the war is about to begin.

Someone comes in from the outside (CHINA) to pick up the pieces, as 
always.

We are constantly being given a narrative that explains away our 
perspective on our own existence and our place in the world. COVID 
is a vehicle to usher in the next phase. When I kept saying 
"seemingly out of nowhere" we have riots, race division, urgency for 
green new deal measures - this is what I meant. This is all an 
easier plot to predict than your average sitcom. 

Americans lead by the nose. If you are off track, you get the 
"racist" label stun-grenade. The equivalent of Walt Winchell/Joseph 
McCarthy red-scare witching. Organizations paying terror orgs (BLM) 
to avoid the label. Pay your tithe! 

Imagine if we rejected the division and the labels. Historically, 
oppressed people embraced those labels to take away their power. I 
suspect this is coming too. But once you accept a label like racist, 
many will play into it. DANGEROUS. If you look up "antifa" on Google 
images, you will see men with Confederate flags. They control the 
reality. 

"Antifa is just an idea."
"The violence is caused by white separatists."
Anyone right of Joseph Stalin is a white separatist. 

Reduced to "deplorable" in seconds. 
Did you virtue signal? No?
You are now the target.



#21 of 111 by walkman on Wed Oct 28 13:09:42 2020:

I love this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaCAdyfwE8

It's virtually impossible to be invisible.
Even if your phone, sim, and service are perfectly locked down and 
invisible, your online behavior gives you away. Your online 
accounts, location data via wifi triangulation and GPS, cookies, etc 
betray you. 

The only way to really be invisible is to not use any of this 
technology. Pop a cassette into your walkman and walk, man.

If you can afford to be crafty, you can join a small club of users 
that can stay somewhat invisible:
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-usa/

But that all depends on an extreme level of paranoia and craftiness.
The easiest path is to avoid it all - or carry a flip phone with no 
data access. 



#22 of 111 by tod on Thu Oct 29 05:07:41 2020:

re #21
It's all real great looking on that Librem 5 USA but the cost....
Wonder if there's a jail for running droid apps?
Need to run MS Teams and Skype at a minimum...


#23 of 111 by walkman on Thu Oct 29 13:40:39 2020:

#22

There's a jail app for all android phones and I use it regularly:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
id=com.oasisfeng.island&hl=en_US&gl=US

It works and it's not a pain in the @ss.


#24 of 111 by tod on Fri Oct 30 19:44:46 2020:

re #23
I have "Android for Work" separation already - it appears to just be using
the native version of that?


#25 of 111 by walkman on Mon Nov 2 02:26:22 2020:

Not sure...


#26 of 111 by walkman on Mon Jan 25 17:18:08 2021:

For those that actually care about the 1st Amendment:

Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech
https://tinyurl.com/yygc6gvz

An excellent piece that details the widespread, well-documented 
journalistic argument AGAINST free speech. Read it before it ironically 
goes into the memory hole. 

Imagine a world where, as the establishment's narrative changes, history
 is altered, ideas are condemned and deleted and people are silenced. It
couldn't happen here, in America right?


#27 of 111 by walkman on Sat Jan 30 07:59:24 2021:

Running the "great reset" freak flag, loud and proud:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/29/davos-merkel-macron-coron
avirus/ ---

Elizabeth "occupy wall street" Warren writes open letter to SEC
demanding they do something about regular Americans who buy shares in
failing American companies:
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/01.29.2021%20Letter%20from%20
Senator%20Warren%20to%20Acting%20Chair%20Lee.pdf

The mask is off: Protecting the hedge-fund billionaires over regular
joes really sticks it to Wall Street! File under: "Red-pilling
Basement-dwellers" --- Elon Musk criticized Biden for stopping Gamestop
trades and delaying Space X. Then he was hit with an investigation:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/doj-investig
ating-spacex-after-hiring-discrimination-complaint-.html&sa=D&source=hang
outs&ust=1612116961952000&usg=AFQjCNGG02MwaJOhlMwm-Hay25WsTD6ftg


#28 of 111 by walkman on Sat Feb 6 09:38:37 2021:

Free Speech discussion with Andrew Torba, who discusses the lengths the 
globalist/leftmob has taken to stifle free speech and how he as 
circumvented it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1wZW2-1u8

Dissenter Browser
Dissenter is a fast ad-blocking web browser based on Brave, that puts 
control back in your hands. Dissenter Browser aims to reduce the amount 
of tracking and third-party connections which are made by modern 
browsers, and disable big tech control over what you can and can't do. 
The Dissenter extension is included, allowing you to join a comments 
section on any URL!
https://apps.gab.com/user/dissenterbrowser


#29 of 111 by walkman on Mon Feb 22 05:14:37 2021:

What's the matter with your life
Is the fear porn bringing U down?
Is the mailman jerking U 'round?
Did he put your 2k stimulus check
In someone else's box?



#30 of 111 by tod on Sat Feb 27 15:52:58 2021:

Warfare is industrial
Need a large Army
Innovative military ideas
Rivals under the heel of shutdown
Put your pocketchange into Bezos
Equip and train your army
With Netflix and hot pockets


#31 of 111 by walkman on Tue Mar 2 17:29:11 2021:

armies of transvestites 
you can spot the pedos at work when they have "my little pony" near
their  computer monitors they *really* want 5 year-olds to get castrated
for some reason
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/02/23/biden-hhs-
nominee-defended-subjecting-kids-to-chemical-castration-n1427782


#32 of 111 by walkman on Fri Mar 5 15:42:50 2021:

What/who was "Samyaza"?
He was known to be a winged seraph; a flying serpent.
A reptilian who could fly but also wanted to enjoy the daughters of men 
(offspring were giants/nephilim)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samyaza

Samyaza appeared in the Book of Enoch and the Book of Giants; both of 
which are not considered canon by Christians but once were official.  

Kukulkan, a Mesoamerican serpent deity was also winged (feathered) and 
was said to be descended from the stars. 

Qin Shi Huang was China's first emperor. He was known to be descended 
from dragons. Chinese believed dragons to be divine creatures and their 
symbol represents Imperial power. 

 
 


#33 of 111 by walkman on Fri Mar 5 15:48:31 2021:

Dr. Seuss book for only $895. Huh.
https://www.amazon.com/If-Ran-Zoo-Classic-
Seuss/dp/0385379056/ref=sr_1_16?
dchild=1&keywords=dr.+suess&qid=1614982088&sr=8-16



#34 of 111 by papa on Sat Mar 6 06:35:47 2021:

resp:33
MY treasured collection is NOT for sale.


#35 of 111 by walkman on Sun Mar 7 11:40:04 2021:

Here's the new target: 

NYT: Speedy Gonzales Is 'Racist,' Pepe Le Pew Contributes to 'Rape 
Culture'
https://neonnettle.com/news/14457-nyt-speedy-gonzales-is-racist-pepe-le-
pew-contributes-to-rape-culture-

It's like the Salem witch trials. Snarky peons are pointing their dirty 
fingers at others as the heat of the drama increases. Cancel culture in 
this way is the same as covid fear porn; a pageant meant to change our 
world and reset it in the predetermined image created by globalists. 


#36 of 111 by walkman on Sun Mar 7 13:01:24 2021:

"Alexa, what is the surveillance economy?"


#37 of 111 by papa on Sun Mar 7 15:39:02 2021:

resp:35 I thought Speedy and Pepe have been Animalia Non Grata for years.
Early victims of Political Correctness run amok.

resp:36
"That would be telling."


#38 of 111 by walkman on Tue Mar 9 06:49:32 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!"


#39 of 111 by walkman on Tue Mar 9 16:05:34 2021:

Make your own AI assistant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4luTnRpfgbs

This project looks much further along. I tried to setup a couple years 
ago (or 3?) and I couldn't get it working. It now looks very "plug and 
play". 


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