Posted on 02/05/2021 6:42:12 AM PST by Heartlander
Yes.
Thanks,,,
Many years ago, I worked with a woman (call her Magda, not her real name) who grew up in wartime Germany. She related the following story (I paraphrase)
We civilians were cleaning up after an Allied bombing raid. As people do, I was having a conversation with another teenage woman. It went along the usual lines, where are you from, what do your parents do.
She told me her parents were in Auschwitz. I asked her where that was. She replied "That's where you go in through the gate and out through the chimney." I had no idea what she was talking about.
Magda then said to me "You have to remember that we had a controlled press. Nothing the government did not want you to know was ever reported.:"
Keeping in mind that the Democrat Party controls the press, could it happen here?
The digital battle is not lost yet. Remember Alta Vista?AOL? Palm Pilot? The current incumbents can and probably will be replaced in the future. How fast that happens depends entirely on how quickly consumers adopt the newcomers. One of the biggest mistakes Trump made was not cross posting to other services. He should be on Gab now, but he seems to be content to just sit there. I guess we will have to wait until Parler comes back, and they will. They will come back harder and stronger and in order to shut them down they will have to resort to tactics that are more akin to bullying the power company into shutting off their juice. Then things will get interesting.
In the mean time, every company with an IT department worth their salt is thinking about what they would do if Amazon or Microsoft decided to shut them off.
Have a look at rightforge.com.
“In thru the Gate,
Out thru the Chimney.”
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Chillingly Unforgettable.
Yes - digital first.
But it won’t be long until it becomes a PHYSICAL reality.
Be prepared. It’ll come on quickly once it starts.
“Have a look at rightforge.com.”
There you go. Once people get up with friendly hosting services or stand up their own servers, I predict the next battle will shift to DNS. Epik seems to be the only registrar left who won’t give in to the mob. That leaves us with a single point of failure. Not good.
The core of the problem.
“Of course, there are many cold steps to traduce between angry boycotts and deplatformings based on political differences and calls for elimination on the same grounds. But it is useful to remember that Twitter, Google, Amazon, and Apple have eclipsed the power of some nation-states. While many companies have a global reach, these conglomerates negotiate with foreign governments on their own terms and in their own interests. They market a form of tyranny that exploits American preoccupation with social conformity and acceptance. Conservatives are the new “other.” We are said to have violated these shared spaces by having expressed beliefs we have been informed are offensive.”
Ping. Limbaugh cites American Greatness now and then. It is a credible website.
I was reading up about Nord-VPN. Their servers are in Panama because the laws are very good for them there. You can find out the details why on the internet. So PANAMA looks like a place to put Parler's servers and they will be back. Now if the USA gets really nasty under Biden-Harris-Dems I suppose they can still block Parler from the USA?? But we are not near there yet. My opinion. Russia has successfully blocked some VPN services. Just find out the VPNs servers and block them all I suppose even if the VPN uses a few hundred.
Could it happen here? Sometimes I wonder how much of it is already happening and nobody ever reports on it.
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“Now if the USA gets really nasty”
Nord VPN is supposed to be pretty good. But remember, their servers are all over the place, including the US. I suppose if the US demanded to “bug” them, they could just pull out, then you would have to use one of their servers in another country. Your VPN provider pulling out of the US is actually one of those canary in the coalmine things to watch for. I think what might happen is that the US “licences” VPNs, so you will have to have to have a permit and you will have to give them the “keys” so they can eavesdrop. This will be interesting because VPNs are what makes teleworking possible. Many if not most companies will fall in line like they have for political correctness. The rest will have to either stop teleworking or most likely leave the US. As for individuals, what would be the point of having one? I suppose you could deprive Google of some datapoints, but that’s about it.
“Just find out the VPNs servers and block them”
Most likely they would block the protocols. That would go for Tor, as well. I suppose you could try to obfuscate, use unconventional ports, etc, but I suppose AI would soon follow that could detect if something “funny” is going on.
“Their servers are in Panama”
The more I think about it, the more I want to liquidate everything and go down there and be with those servers.
fwiw from Wikipedia
“NordVPN is based in Panama, as the country has no mandatory data retention laws and does not participate in the Five Eyes or Fourteen Eyes alliances.”
Others out there are testing the waters of Internet 2.0 as a communications system without a central control point. Some pass along general guidelines of how to follow that path.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/pirate-freedom-conservative-box/
Here’s the podcast covering rightforge:
Finding Creative Internet Solutions In A World Controlled By Big Tech
Federalist Radio Hour
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Martin Avila talks with Senior Editor Chris Bedford about his new company RightForge and how Big Tech’s crackdown on conservative sites inspired him and others to create their own platform that can accommodate a wider variety of viewpoints.
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/federalist-radio-hour/id983782306?i=1000506999701
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For now, I assume rightforge could strike a deal with Mr. Monster at EPIK.
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