Within the by no means ending warfare towards free speech, now we have but once more been shadow banned and apparently quickly banned from posting content material or displaying up on Instagram and Fb.
What was our nice social crime towards humanity?
We posted photos from the present ground of the SHOT Present in Las Vegas that had firearms on show at commerce present cubicles. Right here is META informing us that our posts will now not be proven to non-followers or present up in search as a result of we posted photos of weapons.
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On Fb, our posts had been banned from Fb’s Enhance promoting, and had been shadow-banned on as properly… On Fb now we have 285,789 followers, our posts through the SHOT present had been proven to underneath 1,000 folks. Lots of our posts had zero attain and had been outright shadow-banned and faraway from our web page.
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It get’s crazier…
On high of being banned, Instagram even eliminated three photographs from my spouse’s private Instagram web page as a result of she tagged me within the publish — the photograph’s didn’t even include firearms, they had been actually photos of the 2 of us collectively in Las Vegas… apparently tagging my account was justification sufficient to delete photographs of her and myself from her private account.
It’s solely going to worsen…
As now we have talked about for years on this website, the total out assault on our liberties and freedoms is barely going to worsen. In truth, again in July of 2021 we advised you this was going to ramp up after the Biden Administration outright admitted that the federal authorities is working with so-called personal enterprise to censor and take away “problematic” content material from the web, and basically silence their enemies.
What can all of us do?
Restrict, cease utilizing, or take management of how you utilize these Social Media Ghettos!
For years, Silicon Valley Tech Giants have been swallowing up content material and killing natural progress for various media web sites. These web giants have created a system the place it’s not possible to exist with out them; they’re swallowing up the Web and forcing folks into communities they will management, censor, and regulate.
Out of the 400,000+ followers this website had on Fb (Fb has eliminated 100k of them), I’m fortunate if Fb reveals my publish to 1% of these folks. So whereas there should be some worth to sharing some of these articles, nearly like going behind enemy strains, it’s nearly not possible for various media to succeed in the individuals who wish to see their tales.
Begin your individual web site or on-line group.
I’m one man; if I can do it, so are you able to. I began OFFGRID again in 2007, and I’ve slowly grown it at some point at a time. It’s not simple, however I do imagine it’s important.
Within the technique of constructing the location, I’ve talked to hundreds of thousands of individuals, written a ebook that helped develop my attain past the Web, began different web sites like Nation Hookers and Ham Radio Prepper, and helped a numerous variety of folks turn into higher ready for the very actual threats in in the present day’s society.
So sure, it’s value it!
Even when it’s only a small weblog, one that’s solely learn by a handful of individuals, you may have the facility to create your individual group that isn’t owned by Fb, Google, Twitter, or every other media conglomerate. You’ll be able to write concerning the issues which might be vital to you and share the tales and hyperlinks that you simply assume are vital.
- Don’t simply go away feedback on Fb: Touch upon this and different blogs and free web boards within the feedback part. This can assist transfer the dialog off of those social media websites, and again into arenas the place we management the content material.
- If you happen to don’t wish to begin your individual web page, shoot me an e-mail via my contact web page , and you may write for OFFGRID Survival or one among my different websites.
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I don’t belief something I hear from the mainstream media, and a lot of the Web has turn into tightly managed by a handful of companies. Many of the common web sites have been purchased off way back by massive media conglomerates.
For a take a look at what the remainder of the world is saying, we propose getting a very good ham radio to watch worldwide shortwave stations, native police and first responder frequencies, navy communications, ham radio communications, and every other form of radio transmission you’ll be able to consider.
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