Because the creator of Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom, I suppose I shouldn’t be stunned to search out myself squarely within the digital gulag—banished, maybe completely, from Twitter and Fb. Twitter completely suspended my account a number of weeks in the past, mere days earlier than Elon Musk took over the helm. Though I can’t be positive, I could have been banned as a result of I advised that the transgender motion is a part of a multipronged neo-Malthusian depopulation marketing campaign. (Observe that I stated nothing to or about any transgender people and thus broke no “Twitter guidelines,” no matter they might be. I could have been mistaken, however certainly being “right” shouldn’t be a situation for main social media use. Or is it? In fact it’s.)
Now Fb has demanded proof that I’m who I say I’m, and has fully barred me from my account, which has been, at the very least quickly, totally erased from the positioning. I submitted an image of my driver’s license, which Fb rejected, after which an image of my passport together with my license. I await Fb’s response, which I learn might take wherever from forty-eight hours to forty-five days to reach.
I’m contemplating deleting my account, so I’ll lose hundreds of followers and speak to with many individuals with whom I’ve develop into mates. That’s how the digital gulag system works. One is sucked into social media networks, after which the social media networks have management over your connections, which they’ll sever on a whim.
Excuse me if I discover the timing of my banishment considerably curious, since I’ve simply written a brand new e-book on the worldwide agenda of the Nice Reset, with a foreword by Lew Rockwell, which is because of be launched on Amazon in early January.
By now it ought to go with out saying that the weather of Large Digital—the megadata providers, the social media plattypes, the substitute intelligence (AI) brokers, the apps, and the developing web of issues, web of our bodies, digital identification, and central financial institution digital currencies (CBDCs)—usually are not solely the merchandise of monopolies or would-be monopolies however have additionally been integrated by the state as apparatuses of a brand new corporate-state energy.
With the continued publication of “the Twitter recordsdata” and different revelations, collusion between Large Digital and the state can not be credibly denied nor can knowledge sharing and coordination amongst social media websites and Google. Google and Fb monitor on-line and “offline” habits (if “offline” can any longer be thought-about to exist) and basically know all the things conceivable about their customers.
It’s typically advised that this knowledge is used solely for promoting functions. However consumer knowledge can be shared with the surveillance state, and that is much more troubling. Visited a verboten web site? Think about how the state would possibly make use of such data.
One advised resolution is to go Galt—to hunt a digital Galt’s Gulch and to take away oneself and thus one’s digital footprints, as a lot as potential, from Large Digital’s ambit. That is simple to say for individuals who don’t depend on social media to advertise their wares, however definitely extrication from the totalitarian Googleplex is feasible, at the very least in precept.
The truth is, for a lot of true dissidents, it should doubtless develop into inevitable. However what’s going to it imply? Will Large Digital make survival outdoors of its attain unattainable? When does the digital gulag develop into greater than digital? At what level does your life rely on Large Digital? Digital identification and CBDCs will seal many fates; one will both choose into the totalitarian regime or face the implications of full exclusion.
