I remember when What’s App came along, and one of the things I liked about it was that it encrypted its messages and supposedly couldn’t be read by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. What happened next? Facebook bought it. Now I don’t trust it any more.
Another example: There was a really good app I used to use for reading the news on mobile devices called Zite. It had all the news from just about every source in the world. You told it what news you wanted and then it gave it to you. You like the Raiders, local news from Phoenix, Agriculture, trade, news from Croatia, golf, wireless technology, whatever topics, you list it and then you start getting it. Then, as you read, it learns what you like. If you don’t like an article, you give it a thumbs down. If you don’t like a source of info, you give it a thumbs down.
Eventually, over time, the app knew exactly what news you wanted, and delivered it, creating a news paper perfectly tailored to you individually.
Well, the masters of the universe couldn’t have that. They want you to read only what they want to deliver to you, to evolve and channel your thinking to comply with their wishes. So, a few years ago, Zite was purchased by Flipboard. Zite was ended completely, it does not exist any more. They tried to get Zite users to switch to Flipboard. Flipboard lets you pick the topics you like, but it selects the providers and sucks at tailoring your news to your likes. So we end up being given the same old leftist sources of news that we were trying to escape.
Any time something comes along that prevents the IC from watching what you are doing or telling you how to think, it will be bought out or otherwise corrupted. Youtube was another one. Snapchat, the list goes on and on.
Great post. This set off some neurons in my brain.....
Is this similar to the reason that the DS wants to force 0vomitcare or some other form of government health care on all of us? Of course it is. At first, it’s sold to us as “free” or at least that it will “save us money”. Eventually, they have a stranglehold on us and THEY get to decide who lives and who dies. Of course, Sarah Palin was right. Anyone who thinks there wouldn’t be death panels is deluding themselves.
Just think about all the things that are/were free and what purposes they served. And then think about how they get you to pay for things that used to be free! TV was free and masterfully used for propagandizing the population. But then they figured out that they could get people to pay for it! (cable) So you are now paying for their propaganda. I’ve never had cable so correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the original appeal was that it would be ad-free. Then once they got people used to paying for cable (addicted), they started adding in ads. So you’re paying AND you’re being fed ads.
What else is free or cheap?
I wondered for a long time how various internet entities could provide free services. I found it difficult to believe that advertising paid well enough to fund it. Now I know.