Posted on 01/11/2021 7:09:01 AM PST by bort
We FREEPERS need to brain storm on how to retaliate/react against the Left and their obvious NAZI-like censorship of social media and their pressure campaign with corporations. Post your suggestions below. Here is my suggestion:
OK, so the Left controls Silicon Valley and New York banks/corporations. The Right controls ENERGY. We should encourage oil, natural gas, heating oil, and other energy corporations and states (TX, OK, LA, etc.) to not sell their energy products to NY, CA, MA, VT, and NJ, etc. When their states get crippled with high energy prices, they will scream like babies.
The leftists do not have the market cornered on tech geniuses - our side has its share. A mass coordinated DOS campaign might give our “overlords” some pause to reconsider their tactics. Failing that ...
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. all have vulnerable physical assets, such as data satellite uplink stations and server farms. It would be a damn shame if something were to happen to them - just sayin.
Have you tried LINUX phone? I’m due for new phone...have Android now
This is essentially what Ayne Rand wrote in Atlas Shrugged. Remove yourself from the system where you are paying no or minimal taxes. “I am John Galt” Reduced tax revenue means they can’t pay for programs (although now they just print more dollars and its kind of a non-issue. Rand’s plan required normal fiscal policy, not this economic travesty we have been using since 2008 or before) and really, all this does is hasten the collapse.
Doesn’t Google have something to do with Duck now?
Stop being anti-boycott and stop supporting businesses who support commies. Don’t tell me its not effective because the left uses it to great success and we should too.
For instance, I stopped buying Land-O-Lakes butter and found other brands are better. In fact, we need to post a list specifically of Google, Twitter, Apple advertisers if anyone has it.
I think from recent news we need to add Marriott Hotels to the list.
Like dropping roofing nails in the Google parking lot? Not saying anyone should do it ... just sayin
“ Doesn’t Google have something to do with Duck now?”
I don’t know about that but I’m open to other suggestions if there is one.
Use a VPN
Ubuntu/Linux
GrapheneOS on a Pixel 3 or 4 phone (can find on ebay or install yourself on a non carrier sold phone) Google free and Android app compatible.
Don’t use anything google ever
Use amazon for research but never buy from them
Parler when/if they’re back online
Gab.ai when they’re done doing maintenance/upgrades
MeWe is a good facebook replacement and they even allow firearms buy/sell/trade groups. There’s an unofficial FR group on MeWe. A Jim Robinson from CA who’s business/occupation is listed as being freerepublic.com is registered there but has never posted. There should not be a FR facebook group imho.
I second the AG, SOS thing. Also the board of elections. Not much we can do about Federal judges. Trump got a few hundred put in but it hasn’t done us any good so far. Thanks for nothing Heritage Foundation.
Buy made in USA as much as possible. Avoid Made in China. I bought a Standard brand ignition coil at our little parts store and was pleasantly surprised to see Made in Poland. USA would have been better but Poland ain’t too shabby.
Quit shopping at walmart. Try to avoid any large chain stores. Reduce your tax burden as much as possible.
If you’re in a blue city or State, get out. You’re just paying dems with your taxes.
Startpage?
A truckers strike would hit them hard. No more deliveries to cities or the city proper of Washington, DC. I suppose only the independent truckers would or could participate.
Still, anyone who knows how to operate a big rig has power they don’t even realize.
Wear a mask!
The only real time to wear a mask is when you protest. Not to keep you from COVID but to keep facial recognition from finding out who you are!
This is the old demon dialer idea. Flood with data. Just post random number sequences as code ala message to :
I don’t have a Twitter and go on FB once a year. I have a Instagram but only went on once. When the others get ready I will have my wife switch over and I will do social media again. FB got to many advertisements and seemed to combine with Amazon. If you mention a item in FB you would get advertisements from amazon for the same item suddenly on sale. And would pop up on your FB page. I think they listen to somehow. My wife and I have talked about items before and open Amazon or FB and there is a advertisement for it. Kind of creepy.
See this post; https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3923952/posts?page=28#28
There are a few other Linux phones but they’re not compatible with Android apps. You can make calls, text, take pics, browse the web etc but that’s about it. They do have GPS but no google maps app. You could go to google.com/maps in the browser. Some do have a Maps app but it uses OpenStreetMap which isn’t great.
Librem 5 is probably the most mature Linux phone but if you see my post linked about, I mention GrapheneOS which is Android app compatible. It only runs on the Pixel line of phones which are made for/sold by google. If you buy a used one, you won’t really be contributing to google. Only in the sense of possibly popularizing a google product. The Pixel 5 is out but GrapheneOS only runs on 3 and 4.
If you’re pretty techie, you can install Linux on many different phones. You can search here; https://many.tuxphones.com/
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I plan on building my own TV streaming box using a Raspberry Pi 400 which is actually a computer built into a keyboard. I won’t pay for any streaming service though. Just watch the free stuff and ignore/mute commercials. I had a firestick and an nVidia Shield TV and both are bloated with ads for pay channels. I imagine both were collecting usage data. I won’t have to worry about that with my home built TV box.
Data is money to Big Tech. Don’t give them any. There’s a reason facebook is free. Your data is their income. Personalized ads from that data is their income.
dogpile.com is a search engine I used to use. It’s a meta search engine which means it searches many other search engines and gives you varied results based on that. I haven’t used it in a long time because it was removed from all browsers and duckduckgo came out not too long after that.
duckduckgo has gone downhill fast. It’s pretty much the same as using google as far as results. Nothing but ads and leftists news sites.
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Mozilla’s gone full commie so get rid of firefox, thunderbird and filezilla.
Browsers - Brave, Falkon, Dissenter(basically Brave custom made by the gab people), slimjet, palemoon. If you run Linux, you can use Chromium which is what Chrome and many others are based on.
If you use Linux, Evolution is a good replacement for thunderbird.
There’s no shortage of FTP clients to replace fillezilla.
Patronize Olive Garden and Holiday Inn!
I avoid national name brands when I can. Buy local/generic only.
Buy the flowers and candy at a local mom&pop.
Yes, be raindrops in the tsunami wave. No need for a list. Avoid national name brands when possible. Buy local/generic.
I have no idea how to do that. I do not use any of the fascist tech and yet when I go to a website that uses google ads they collect data.
For instance, I order Pizza Hut pizza online and Pizza Hut pizza ads start popping up.
Stop doing any shopping online, period.
Delete all your social media accounts.
Buy everything local, From mom and pop shops
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