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TriTorch's avatar

The reason for this global mass censorship onslaught is that the first thing a kidnapper does is gag the victim so that they cannot sound the alarm. Give up your free speech at your peril. Once they are able to silence you, the game is over. The loss of all of your other freedoms will fall like dominos after. Anyone that advocates to censor you, or to unmask your anonymity is your adversary. Treat them like one - no matter what else they say.

But why is it so vital and necessary for the combined monolithic apparatus of government, corporations, and NGOs, to brute force censor everyone while decimating the careers and reputations of the dissenters? Here is why:

The reason the First Amendment is prime directive order 1, is because it is the most important freedom we have for the same reason it is the first target an adversary subverts, disrupts, and destroys during a crime, a war, or a takeover—preventing a target from assembling, communicating, and organizing a response to an assault grants an enormous advantage to the aggressors.

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent will be led, like sheep to the slaughter." —George Washington

The Second Amendment is second because it is the remedy for anyone trying to subvert the First.

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"The 1-A is first for a reason. The 2-A is it's twin. Together they make a bond of freedom." —S.P.H.

Guy Fhawkes's avatar

~ A good simile of Kidnapping & 'tying it up' (pun) with the 1st & 2nd Amendments.

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~ At minimum, other 'channels' of communication need to be set up beyond Social Media.

~ I keep getting 'bombarded' & 'entry-barred' by all platforms for VERIFICATION codes sent to emails,... because I do not attach a mobile number to any of the accounts.

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~ And from TK's analysis of the iPhone-16, the A-i Blood-tracking hounds are after our ID, web-trail, Retina-scans and any more 'evidence' it can GLEENE, 'a-priori' encryption to complete a full-blown psychological (Minority-Report-style) profile of each & every one of us.

-- May we not need the drastic steps of eyes, being swapped/ transplanted to AVOID (digital) capture. !!!

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Good read article too TK ;-)

Guy Fhawkes

dboing dboing's avatar

Sometimes I wonder if this might not be sabotaging something that could have been made reasonable and more adjustable from under. The dominator model applied to bureaucratic structures seems another disconnect. And a waste of good ideas. It seems that bad faith made norm might also be a factor. That one can make laws with half baked definitions or vague enough for the arbitrary capture by stupid or bad faith actors elected or not...

It is as if the JD Vance speech was legitimate here. Also, perhaps too many years of offcial source political-media echo chamber assuming the population public opnions would keep as steerable as before. One would think that Carney Davos admission of past double speak, would raise some instrospecitno in the cogs of political media and finance stratospehere... not my comfort area here. I can't really offer a critical angle.. not yet.. I use to value collectively and transparently convened reasonable limits to any freedom.. The freedom to bully the others for example from having accumulated singular powers, possibly by freedom of bullying itself..

so.. that is all, a principle. this is dangerous slope. and needs fast population review and error-correction mechanisms. and not a dominator model made administrative machine..

Guido Vandeven's avatar

Censorship, free speech and its demolition are the one and only cover up for Europe as a continent losing jobs, it will be empty within 10 years. Economic repair and especially renovation, how many think tanks will break their head over it? And of course Russia the utmost demon, external and eternal enemy against EU must go to war, so Europe must choose whatever the cost to go into a higher gear to retributie into a continuous war industry, even at the sacrifice of their own population, they become the domestic enemies threatening the western values with their socialist and god forbid communist sympathies.

tre peperoncini's avatar

There is only one solution , disband the EU. and disband NATO.