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Grass Roots Strategy against Big Tech (?)
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Posted on 01/12/2021 4:49:41 AM PST by rbg81

Here is my "brilliant" idea. Stay on sites like FB. But post on a regular basis that you REFUSE to do business with ANY of their advertisers.

It is very simple to do. And, if enough people did it, it should send a clear message that makes BT (and their sponsors) nervous.

Meanwhile, you continue using their resources.


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To: PGalt

Voting with our dollars


21 posted on 01/12/2021 5:26:40 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: SMARTY

SMARTY velly SMART


22 posted on 01/12/2021 5:48:21 AM PST by PGalt
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To: SMARTY

Voting with our dollars


and start using dollars again instead of Debit and Credit cards

No fee money for big banks and companies like VISA who won’t let you donate to GAB


23 posted on 01/12/2021 5:52:32 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Born to Conserve

I think if people would just delete the app from their phone and use web only it would have an impact. That would shutdown FB from mining contacts and activities on other apps. I understand many will remain on FB, they like the service, but hate the company. I encourage anything that can be done to disrupt them in any capacity at any time.


24 posted on 01/12/2021 5:55:31 AM PST by teevolt
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To: rbg81

Also stay on Twitter, but make your sole activity flagging liberal hate posts for abuse, threats, and other propaganda. Don’t just do it once or twice - we should be throwing a hundred Twitter flags a day. Use their own tools against them.


25 posted on 01/12/2021 5:59:39 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Bayard

One time fee? downloadable? any product recommendations? is it hard to do?


26 posted on 01/12/2021 6:01:38 AM PST by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: Bayard

Everyone should buy the < 50 buck raspberry PI Linux computers and set up the USENET and UUCP software for both internet and modem access. Use PPP software where necessary and some of us should volunteer to host Linux servers with more storage capabilities for our own Usenet newsgroup software network and replicate the newsgroups and relay them to others in our own “resist” network for communication.

we could use the PPTP point to point tunneling protocol to set up our own VPN for encryption and have local news reports of what s going on that the MSM is not doing.


27 posted on 01/12/2021 6:04:21 AM PST by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: Demiurge2

Also stay on Twitter,

I disagree

don’t give Jack an active user and help tank the stock

this is the number wall street looks at


28 posted on 01/12/2021 6:06:02 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: PGalt
I am always amazed that US consumers fail to realize just how much power they have.

It's called cultural dissidence, and it's what I have been doing for years For example: I cannot tell you the last time I paid for a movie ticket. I think I don't need to subsidize an industry that hates me and demonstrates NO respect for America. That's just one industry that our dollars support.. there are many. The DNC and the MSM behaving as they are and saying the inflammatory things they do about Conservatives are telling fully 50% of Americans to p*ss off!! How should they be able to do that without the least detriment to themselves?

29 posted on 01/12/2021 6:09:43 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: Wonder Warthog

“Even better, contact the advertisers directly and tell them so.”

ABSOLUTELY! A list and a mass email campaign. Pick one and send them hundreds of emails on one agreed date. Pick the next and do the same. They will not be able to ignore this and it will indeed get their attention.


30 posted on 01/12/2021 6:12:57 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

Check it out.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/


31 posted on 01/12/2021 6:21:31 AM PST by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

All personnal emails between friends and family should be encrypted! Even if it does not need to be but done to increase the noise and work load of some folks.

It is not easy but it is not hard either.

https://www.openpgp.org/

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-does-pretty-good-privacy-work-3f5f75ecea97/

You must insist and drag all your folks along - even liberal family members.


32 posted on 01/12/2021 6:28:00 AM PST by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: SMARTY

Same here SMARTY. Last time at movies was about...12 years ago...it seems longer...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=marley+and+me&t=osx&ia=web


33 posted on 01/12/2021 6:36:31 AM PST by PGalt
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To: rbg81

Go for it.

Infiltrating the enemy camp and causing chaos can be a very effective strategy. First, though, study the enemy’s weakness so you know where to inflict the most damage.


34 posted on 01/12/2021 6:41:33 AM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: rbg81
I used it to stay in touch with a lot of people I care about.

MeWe.com is very similar to facebook. Tell those you care about that they should move to mewe with you and see if they care about you.

35 posted on 01/12/2021 6:48:32 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade
Everyone should buy the < 50 buck raspberry PI Linux computers and set up the USENET and UUCP software for both internet and modem access. Use PPP software where necessary and some of us should volunteer to host Linux servers with more storage capabilities for our own Usenet newsgroup software network and replicate the newsgroups and relay them to others in our own “resist” network for communication.

we could use the PPTP point to point tunneling protocol to set up our own VPN for encryption and have local news reports of what s going on that the MSM is not doing.


Excellent post. I've got a raspberry Pi 4 sitting on my desk, unused thus far. I loaded Slackware ARM on it and it works very well. I'll have to look into your suggestions.
36 posted on 01/12/2021 7:11:41 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: rbg81
You're on the right track. I use Facebook to destroy Facebook every day. Allowing people who hate them on their platform is a bad business model... so doom on them.

- Tell their advertisers in the comments that you don't do business with companies that advertise on Facebook. Post anti-Facebook news stories... on Facebook. Shame commies and lefties in front of their friends and families.

Tens of millions should do whatever they can to just trash the place and fk them over in any way possible.

37 posted on 01/12/2021 8:19:24 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: rbg81
A list of companies to avoid at your own discretion.
38 posted on 01/12/2021 8:19:58 AM PST by Ken Regis
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To: Ken Regis

Oops

http://www.investingadvicewatchdog.com/Liberal-Companies-Boycott.html


39 posted on 01/12/2021 8:20:36 AM PST by Ken Regis
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To: rbg81

better yet- set up a dummy account and deactivate your original FB account. I think your idea has merits but i deactivated my FB account more than 2 months ago and have no intention of going back.


40 posted on 01/12/2021 8:33:31 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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