"I have tried to quit Facebook many times, but I have made actual friends there, and I want to know what they are up to."
I signed up early on for that reason alone.
"Every single issue has been censored by Meta. If it had not we would have saved millions of lives and saved trillions of dollars."
The 'Plandemic' in the first half of this decade was the last straw, why I cut myself free of F*book. I viscerally felt the signs, the grade-school clique-ishness of an algorithm, chose not to have anything to do with it. Its rot goes deep, and fast.
Good on you Elizabeth for shedding some light on an 'eyes wide shut' manipulation of emotions to the ultimate benefit of no one but themselves
I had to leave many friends behind though, which I regret.
F*book had somehow become the sole medium for news of events that for years had been important to us all. As its malign influence became ever more apparent I held that the severance was worth it.
Galls me to this day that F*book still exists as such a powerful yet malevolent medium for and in business, religion and social interaction.
If you're only communicating with people digitally, are they really friends? Or is it the illusion of connection?
If someone is your friend, you call them. Talk to them. Spend time with them. I think the whole "facebook friend," if it doesn't morph into friendship in real life, isn't real. It's just a reason to keep you using facebook etc.
I disagree. Your **friends** would contact you, update you, check in on you in a myriad other ways. Mine did. The ones who didn't weren't really friends.
True enough. Many of those erstwhile 'friends' were simply click-happy. Those who kept with me had other avenues by which we could remain in touch. Rather like separating wheat from chaff....
Had it for a few months years ago. I then thought who are these people telling me and showing me every hour of their day. They were boring as hell and the ones I wanted to hear from were MIA but for likes. What a dismal waste of time and out I went.
"Dismal waste of time" an excellent reckoning. Time, effort, emotions, critical thinking. all of inestimable value without an algorithm seeding bitterness and hatred from behind a curtain of 'friendliness'.
I quit around 2012 when I found myself in jail constantly for criticizing Ovomit who I could tell was bad news from day one. I haven't looked back and don't miss it. Zuckerberg is a first class scumbag.
I’ve never been on FB of any of the others owned by Meta. Not because I’m smarter than the average bear, but I just never had the desire to participate in digital relationships. I did join X last year, & usually learn something.
Good for you! I never posted any personal info on FB only political news and different things about animals, clearly why I was in jail so often. I did, however, connect w lots of old friends which was nice I do miss that part of it. Only on YT and SS now. Never been on X, IG or TT.
About ten years ago I actually had family shun me for leaving Fakebook. I just never got it. I’ve never been the type to crave the attention or approval of others so I could not understand the point of it. My family obviously felt different than I. Oh well…
I quit f*cebook for my 50th birthday 9 years ago. It was one of the wisest, most self- & humanity-loving action I have ever taken! I no longer peek into "friends" - and their friends - business. When I see my real-life friends in real life I can ask them honestly, "How have you been and what have you been up to?" without already knowing and knowing that they are choosing to not tell me things.
I was logged out of Facebook in 2021 and never went back. Cold turkey works.
You won't find the demon worshippers of the District of Corruption at all helpful in reining in the demon worshippers of Silicon Valley. Don't waste your time hoping for help from them.
Just think what they will do with AI what is good is likely ten times evil steer clear the best you can as all these government s push to bring it on imagine the Zuck and AI death to the world
I am so glad that Elizabeth wrote about the FB phenomenon, the truth about how popular and powerful it was and still is.
Here's the problem in a nutshell- there is no more LOCAL news media in print. All our town newspapers are long gone. So are the free Pennysavers that were what Craigslist is today- a place for free advertising that went to every mailbox in town.
Even more important than buying and selling crap, is LOCAL POLITICS. Years ago when we ran political campaigns in our town, whether for school board or town board, we could spend $150 and get a two page ad for our candidate that would go to every mailbox in town. Plus, people actually read the ads and responded to them.
No more. Those days are gone forever. The only alternative to print media we have that works is the universally hated FB.
Forget about the personal stuff. I have NEVER used FB for anything remotely personal, especially pics of my grand kids that I know the perverts would love. Facebook is for politics in every town in this part of Nueva York. They say that just old people like myself are on FB to which I call BS.
I see too many younger folk sharing the most intimate details of their lives including their precious baby and family photos. Big Mistake!
Back to politics- if you think it's bad for the big guns Elizabeth, you should see what they do to the little peons like us who need to use the platform for our political campaigns or what FB calls "social issues." I HAVE NEVER SEEN such blatant CENSORSHIP anywhere!
Even though we try to run ads for HYPER LOCAL issues like the school budget, we are not allowed to do so. We can post for free to local groups but that limits the message.
How it works: if you are running a political campaign and want to run ads on FB, you first have to get vetted and authorized. It's almost like you're trying to get a job with the FBI or CIA. You literally have to give them copies of your driver's license, SS number, credit card or bank info. They they MAIL you a secret code that may or may not work. Even after all that, they still might not let you advertise and on top of that, your credit card will most certainly get hacked by someone in Russia or China. (it happened to me, the only time I was able to advertise a campaign.)
We just lost an important small town election for supervisor because our candidate couldn't get vetted on FB. And she was working with a knowledgeable tech guy who still couldn't make it happen.
Something needs to be done about this Satanic platform. It is inconceivable that the Trump administration can't do something to stop Zucker Devil. The little creep must have a direct line to Lucifer because he seems to have more power than Elon, Bezos and our other overlords.
I refuse to submit. I've confronted every lazy business and governmental agency that communicate through only FB to make them communicate elsewhere. Some have taken my advice. I will continue to fight this one-channel method of communication. I won't join FB under any circumstances.
Thank you Cat! And it really galls me that some businesses are only on fb. How stupid. I recently tried to open an account on Poshmark and it had to go thru fb! I immediately deleted it.
I'm with you. No Facebook, no store gets my email or phone number, no self checkout as I'm not an employee. No vax, no mask, no covid pass to eat or shop or buy anywhere. People could stop all of this garbage if they stopped being sheep. I do not go along to get along.
I wish it wasn't necessary to have anything to do with FB but like I said, there are no more hyper local newspapers or other media is you want to engage the electorate.
In my town there are several political FB groups that have over 4000 members between them. Like I said, we have no other hyper local media for politics.
Trump is headed towards being worse. Since trump has done a complete 180° from everything he claimed to stand for, I have to wonder if trump is still really trump. It’s nothing these days to put a mask on another person who is similar and fool the masses. Take O’Biden for example… most of the public appearances were actors and not O’Biden at all. Carefully watch trump in the media and you will see that he looks different all of the time.
My working theory is that Bibi is blackmailing Trump, and Musk accidentally found out about it. I agree that Trump has done a 180, and honestly, he doesn't seem to be happy or comfortable with a lot of the decisions he's made. IMHO, he's angry he's being blackmailed.
I would agree that Trump doesn't look like Trump. I *suspect* that he's been on Ozympic, and that messes up your facial features. I'm not going to rule out doubles though; maybe for safety, maybe because they can or maybe he's losing it. IDK.
"The ignorant need an enemy. To show we aren’t Commie fascist genocidal maniacs, we will make Russia the enemy and aggregate power and money in order to make the ignorant pay to fight it and send their kids to be killed. Then they will join us. It will be like WW2!!!!! Together at last."
We need this tattooed on the foreheads of 25-35% of our population.
Always think Geneva Switzerland when you ponder what's going. UN headquarters, UN NATO killing maching, by the way controls the US military, CERN, Swiss bank cartel, red cross, WHO, WEF.
Post Soviet Union Russia is hated by only those who worship money and believe themselves to be gods on earth. They make Russia the enemy to take the scarce resources they posses and they ask non-Tribe Americans to put their lives on the line for them to take what they want and then exploit us for more profit.
I went on Facebook for a while and then left. That's the answer. The same with the woman who wrote this book about how terrible she was treated and how disgusting Zuckerburg, Sandberg, et al
Leave. I really don't get it. I have left jobs, boyfriends, and a husband. I'm still living. Get another job.
WOW, Elizabeth this is a real blockbuster article, THANK YOU! I knew Suckerberg was a total jerk and an idiot but didn't know how truly evil he was - he as zero morals it seems. I was banned from Facebook about 4 yrs ago - I didn't care then and still don't. I was never told why I was banned and I've since met a few folks who had the same experience - being banned and no reason given. There's so much info in this article that is truly important; but the one that really hit me was this one: "250,000 women and children in England being assaulted and raped in the last 10 yrs" is the one that really smacked me in the face. That's 25,000 women/children per years or about 2,100 per month or 70 per day - WOW! That's horrifying. The entire western world has now become a third world hell hole. I'm 70 y.o. and I remember when the rest of the world held huge respect for America and England was a very polite, clean and law-abiding country.
Kudos to you Elizabeth for reporting on all of this. As for Facebook, we need people like you to give 'em hell and tell the truth - let's hear it for the old ladies in this world who aren't afraid to speak up and tell it like it is. I'm one of those myself - if anyone is offended by what we say, it's because they haven't been paying attention and trying to find the truth. I'm proud to be one of them and I'm so VERY glad for your articles, Elizabeth, I always learn so much from you and I love your style!
I got banned as well for posting an article I found on Wikileaks about Hillary. When I received the email from the FBI, I took that as proof that the entire platform was indeed a psyop. I simply replied to the email with a gracious “Thank you” and haven’t looked back.
If everyone deleted their social media account on the same day, all these tech overlords would cease to have any power over us. I can’t understand why this is so hard to understand. We give them their power, why not take it away? It’s SO easy.
Facebook is awful. I’ve had instagram accounts I’ve deleted and reopened several times. I find it much harder to quit than Facebook. Perhaps my hatred of AI will finally get me there. We need to be like the Savage in Brave New World. Screw these transhumanist tech oligarchs.
And thank you to Elizabeth for exposing/explaining the ten year AI stipulation in the BBB. When one reads a 1,000 page bill somethings can be overlooked (as if I read it). It was my understanding from descriptions I read was that AI could not be changed or legislated for 10yrs. Either way am I to understand that this was ultimately removed from the bill? I hope so. This was before the most recent dust up w Trump and I was greatly put off by it as should be everyone else.
The absence of content on US social media regarding the EU Immigration 'circus' (to put it nicely) would be astounding to me, if it weren't for my understanding of how fettered and clogged the filter ahead of the stream is with *actual* news. That being said, people in the US are finally waking up (very slowly, but surely) to the reprehensible evils being perpetrated, allowed, and encouraged to transpire against our various Motherland's, and I believe they are watching with furrowed brows and apprehension of encroaching carnage, with the literal proof of the destruction and rape of our people by living-detritus seeping through the cracks, like pools of blood through a barnyard roof.
Zuckerberg, Gates, (likely Wynn) and literal countless others like them should've been nailed to a post and flayed alive ages ago. If only we lived in a time with less remote-manipulation capabilities, we may have fared better.
I relate to your bit about the censorship and clamping-down from outside forces only enhancing your resolve and doubling your fight, as I've been the same way my entire life, and watched the depths of my drive increase with exponential intensity the further I am pressed to an inverse. Often to the point of bewilderment of my peers, who seem to believe there is always an 'easier path' in 'relinquishing' or 'stepping back'. Fuck that noise. We need now more than ever people who refuse to stop or turn around, and, to the contrary, press through harder.
I must be the world’s biggest cynic but - I can’t imagine a world where sharing all my most private events and personal thoughts publicly, would not leave me vulnerable for exploitation and negativity, somehow by someone.
I am like you, a professor in college told me I didn't belong in the sciences, I got a Bachelor's in Physics, and a Master's in Electrical Engineering.
A director told me I couldn't be a project leader, so I changed to a different job and became a very effective leader.
These people want to silence us but it makes our resolve that much stronger.
We moved out of our parent's house and their control for a reason.
Every human has an innate sense to step out and explore the world on their terms, not someone else's.
Thanks for fighting. I am a proud supporter, you have so much wisdom. I do hope more people step up to help you even if it's just a cup of coffee. When we are united, we are stronger.
re: "A thousand years of traditional knowledge held by Europe’s farmers is slated to be destroyed and replaced by frankenfoods made by possibly the most hated man in the world, another digital overlord, Bill Gates.."
Between and around that stinking pile of absolute incarnate evil and diarrhea (IMHO far worse than zuck) and the steaming pile of shit that is Zuckerberg should be a Citizen with a scoped rifle and cross hairs center of mass on their cabezas. The American people have a 2A right to end tyranny wherever it pops up and sending these two (and their sycophants) on their way to an eternity in hell is way overdo. The 2A - not just for government tyrants.
I was a sales/biz dev executive in "The Valley" for three decades. One of my start-ups built some of the very first "predictive analytics" algorithms decades ago. We spent hours discussing whether we should have consumers "opt in" or "opt out"....in regards to privacy while balancing for growth. It seems quaint now. On another note, and having also been trained in statistics in grad school, I immediately started looking (or not looking...Neil Ferguson said his modeals were too intricate to understand) for data on which 2.2 million U.S. covid deaths could be based. It did not take long to figure out it was a scam. My wife is much more intuitive and said almost immediately that "this is b.s.". Love your observations.
One of the sharpest points you make here is that it’s not the spectacle of censorship that’s most corrosive... it’s the quiet, casual normalcy of it. The backroom chats. The unspoken consensus. The invisible throttling that makes people think they’re alone.
It’s a strange kind of brilliance: build the infrastructure of belonging so well that people will tolerate almost anything to stay tethered.
That’s the part I keep coming back to. Not just the scale of it, but the way it hijacks our nervous systems to feel connection and coercion as the same thing.
Groupthink is part of it, sure -- but I think this goes deeper. It’s not just shared beliefs; it’s engineered dependency. The infrastructure creates the need to conform so we don’t lose our tether to belonging. What we have now is manufactured consensus masquerading as a true collective mythos -- propped up by algorithms and the fear of exile, not any real shared meaning.
I am just a geologist, but one especially attuned to data gathering and analysis. I saw how Y2K made no sense but fortunately it timed out. "Global warming" was assendant and it too made no sense. So, they rebranding to "climate change" as it allows denser fog to hide reality. Covid was no different and I used government numbers to show that. Then I jumped feet first into politics (if you don't like what is happening at least try to fix the problem). That is where I ran head first into Facebooks censorship. I quit them and have no interest in ever going back. Unfortunately the free access to information that came with the early days of the internet are gone but we need to keep fighting the censors, in all their forms. Hopefully Substack will continue giving people like myself, and especially those like Elizabeth, exposing the ever increasing propaganda. No longer can we trust anyone in government and tech.
This is why I subscribe to Substack- what a RIVETING and informative post - actually consequential to our existence. Will be sharing this everywhere 💯🙏🏻💯
"I have tried to quit Facebook many times, but I have made actual friends there, and I want to know what they are up to."
I signed up early on for that reason alone.
"Every single issue has been censored by Meta. If it had not we would have saved millions of lives and saved trillions of dollars."
The 'Plandemic' in the first half of this decade was the last straw, why I cut myself free of F*book. I viscerally felt the signs, the grade-school clique-ishness of an algorithm, chose not to have anything to do with it. Its rot goes deep, and fast.
Good on you Elizabeth for shedding some light on an 'eyes wide shut' manipulation of emotions to the ultimate benefit of no one but themselves
I quit in 2020, and never looked back. I've been a much happier person ever since.
Same here.
I had to leave many friends behind though, which I regret.
F*book had somehow become the sole medium for news of events that for years had been important to us all. As its malign influence became ever more apparent I held that the severance was worth it.
Galls me to this day that F*book still exists as such a powerful yet malevolent medium for and in business, religion and social interaction.
If you're only communicating with people digitally, are they really friends? Or is it the illusion of connection?
If someone is your friend, you call them. Talk to them. Spend time with them. I think the whole "facebook friend," if it doesn't morph into friendship in real life, isn't real. It's just a reason to keep you using facebook etc.
FB friend, so "solid"
I disagree. Your **friends** would contact you, update you, check in on you in a myriad other ways. Mine did. The ones who didn't weren't really friends.
True enough. Many of those erstwhile 'friends' were simply click-happy. Those who kept with me had other avenues by which we could remain in touch. Rather like separating wheat from chaff....
And you actually did not see what was coming?
Same. In 2016. I recommend it to everyone
The augmented love it.
Had it for a few months years ago. I then thought who are these people telling me and showing me every hour of their day. They were boring as hell and the ones I wanted to hear from were MIA but for likes. What a dismal waste of time and out I went.
"Dismal waste of time" an excellent reckoning. Time, effort, emotions, critical thinking. all of inestimable value without an algorithm seeding bitterness and hatred from behind a curtain of 'friendliness'.
I quit around 2012 when I found myself in jail constantly for criticizing Ovomit who I could tell was bad news from day one. I haven't looked back and don't miss it. Zuckerberg is a first class scumbag.
I’ve never been on FB of any of the others owned by Meta. Not because I’m smarter than the average bear, but I just never had the desire to participate in digital relationships. I did join X last year, & usually learn something.
Good for you! I never posted any personal info on FB only political news and different things about animals, clearly why I was in jail so often. I did, however, connect w lots of old friends which was nice I do miss that part of it. Only on YT and SS now. Never been on X, IG or TT.
Meta means death by the way look it up.
About ten years ago I actually had family shun me for leaving Fakebook. I just never got it. I’ve never been the type to crave the attention or approval of others so I could not understand the point of it. My family obviously felt different than I. Oh well…
Good for you! I predicted it would cause a lot of issues with mostly the young but seems no age limit to peoples angst.
it's the classic "Bait and Switch" scheme.
I quit f*cebook for my 50th birthday 9 years ago. It was one of the wisest, most self- & humanity-loving action I have ever taken! I no longer peek into "friends" - and their friends - business. When I see my real-life friends in real life I can ask them honestly, "How have you been and what have you been up to?" without already knowing and knowing that they are choosing to not tell me things.
I was logged out of Facebook in 2021 and never went back. Cold turkey works.
You won't find the demon worshippers of the District of Corruption at all helpful in reining in the demon worshippers of Silicon Valley. Don't waste your time hoping for help from them.
I promptly left FB when they censored truth
Just think what they will do with AI what is good is likely ten times evil steer clear the best you can as all these government s push to bring it on imagine the Zuck and AI death to the world
I am so glad that Elizabeth wrote about the FB phenomenon, the truth about how popular and powerful it was and still is.
Here's the problem in a nutshell- there is no more LOCAL news media in print. All our town newspapers are long gone. So are the free Pennysavers that were what Craigslist is today- a place for free advertising that went to every mailbox in town.
Even more important than buying and selling crap, is LOCAL POLITICS. Years ago when we ran political campaigns in our town, whether for school board or town board, we could spend $150 and get a two page ad for our candidate that would go to every mailbox in town. Plus, people actually read the ads and responded to them.
No more. Those days are gone forever. The only alternative to print media we have that works is the universally hated FB.
Forget about the personal stuff. I have NEVER used FB for anything remotely personal, especially pics of my grand kids that I know the perverts would love. Facebook is for politics in every town in this part of Nueva York. They say that just old people like myself are on FB to which I call BS.
I see too many younger folk sharing the most intimate details of their lives including their precious baby and family photos. Big Mistake!
Back to politics- if you think it's bad for the big guns Elizabeth, you should see what they do to the little peons like us who need to use the platform for our political campaigns or what FB calls "social issues." I HAVE NEVER SEEN such blatant CENSORSHIP anywhere!
Even though we try to run ads for HYPER LOCAL issues like the school budget, we are not allowed to do so. We can post for free to local groups but that limits the message.
How it works: if you are running a political campaign and want to run ads on FB, you first have to get vetted and authorized. It's almost like you're trying to get a job with the FBI or CIA. You literally have to give them copies of your driver's license, SS number, credit card or bank info. They they MAIL you a secret code that may or may not work. Even after all that, they still might not let you advertise and on top of that, your credit card will most certainly get hacked by someone in Russia or China. (it happened to me, the only time I was able to advertise a campaign.)
We just lost an important small town election for supervisor because our candidate couldn't get vetted on FB. And she was working with a knowledgeable tech guy who still couldn't make it happen.
Something needs to be done about this Satanic platform. It is inconceivable that the Trump administration can't do something to stop Zucker Devil. The little creep must have a direct line to Lucifer because he seems to have more power than Elon, Bezos and our other overlords.
I refuse to submit. I've confronted every lazy business and governmental agency that communicate through only FB to make them communicate elsewhere. Some have taken my advice. I will continue to fight this one-channel method of communication. I won't join FB under any circumstances.
Thank you Cat! And it really galls me that some businesses are only on fb. How stupid. I recently tried to open an account on Poshmark and it had to go thru fb! I immediately deleted it.
I'm with you. No Facebook, no store gets my email or phone number, no self checkout as I'm not an employee. No vax, no mask, no covid pass to eat or shop or buy anywhere. People could stop all of this garbage if they stopped being sheep. I do not go along to get along.
I wish it wasn't necessary to have anything to do with FB but like I said, there are no more hyper local newspapers or other media is you want to engage the electorate.
But much of the electorate isn't on FB - so you aren't engaging them.
In my town there are several political FB groups that have over 4000 members between them. Like I said, we have no other hyper local media for politics.
" It is inconceivable that the Trump administration can't do something to stop Zucker Devil."
Can't or doesn't want to? I'm not sure of the answer, since so much of our government in the US seems to be dedicated to theater for the masses.
Trump is headed towards being worse. Since trump has done a complete 180° from everything he claimed to stand for, I have to wonder if trump is still really trump. It’s nothing these days to put a mask on another person who is similar and fool the masses. Take O’Biden for example… most of the public appearances were actors and not O’Biden at all. Carefully watch trump in the media and you will see that he looks different all of the time.
My working theory is that Bibi is blackmailing Trump, and Musk accidentally found out about it. I agree that Trump has done a 180, and honestly, he doesn't seem to be happy or comfortable with a lot of the decisions he's made. IMHO, he's angry he's being blackmailed.
I would agree that Trump doesn't look like Trump. I *suspect* that he's been on Ozympic, and that messes up your facial features. I'm not going to rule out doubles though; maybe for safety, maybe because they can or maybe he's losing it. IDK.
Money buys protection.
"The ignorant need an enemy. To show we aren’t Commie fascist genocidal maniacs, we will make Russia the enemy and aggregate power and money in order to make the ignorant pay to fight it and send their kids to be killed. Then they will join us. It will be like WW2!!!!! Together at last."
We need this tattooed on the foreheads of 25-35% of our population.
Always think Geneva Switzerland when you ponder what's going. UN headquarters, UN NATO killing maching, by the way controls the US military, CERN, Swiss bank cartel, red cross, WHO, WEF.
The center of evil for sure but many subsidiaries.
City of London...............
Post Soviet Union Russia is hated by only those who worship money and believe themselves to be gods on earth. They make Russia the enemy to take the scarce resources they posses and they ask non-Tribe Americans to put their lives on the line for them to take what they want and then exploit us for more profit.
Exactly!
I went on Facebook for a while and then left. That's the answer. The same with the woman who wrote this book about how terrible she was treated and how disgusting Zuckerburg, Sandberg, et al
Leave. I really don't get it. I have left jobs, boyfriends, and a husband. I'm still living. Get another job.
WOW, Elizabeth this is a real blockbuster article, THANK YOU! I knew Suckerberg was a total jerk and an idiot but didn't know how truly evil he was - he as zero morals it seems. I was banned from Facebook about 4 yrs ago - I didn't care then and still don't. I was never told why I was banned and I've since met a few folks who had the same experience - being banned and no reason given. There's so much info in this article that is truly important; but the one that really hit me was this one: "250,000 women and children in England being assaulted and raped in the last 10 yrs" is the one that really smacked me in the face. That's 25,000 women/children per years or about 2,100 per month or 70 per day - WOW! That's horrifying. The entire western world has now become a third world hell hole. I'm 70 y.o. and I remember when the rest of the world held huge respect for America and England was a very polite, clean and law-abiding country.
Kudos to you Elizabeth for reporting on all of this. As for Facebook, we need people like you to give 'em hell and tell the truth - let's hear it for the old ladies in this world who aren't afraid to speak up and tell it like it is. I'm one of those myself - if anyone is offended by what we say, it's because they haven't been paying attention and trying to find the truth. I'm proud to be one of them and I'm so VERY glad for your articles, Elizabeth, I always learn so much from you and I love your style!
I got banned as well for posting an article I found on Wikileaks about Hillary. When I received the email from the FBI, I took that as proof that the entire platform was indeed a psyop. I simply replied to the email with a gracious “Thank you” and haven’t looked back.
If everyone deleted their social media account on the same day, all these tech overlords would cease to have any power over us. I can’t understand why this is so hard to understand. We give them their power, why not take it away? It’s SO easy.
Further not vote or pay their extoration fees!
And AI is making it exponentially worse.
Facebook is awful. I’ve had instagram accounts I’ve deleted and reopened several times. I find it much harder to quit than Facebook. Perhaps my hatred of AI will finally get me there. We need to be like the Savage in Brave New World. Screw these transhumanist tech oligarchs.
And thank you to Elizabeth for exposing/explaining the ten year AI stipulation in the BBB. When one reads a 1,000 page bill somethings can be overlooked (as if I read it). It was my understanding from descriptions I read was that AI could not be changed or legislated for 10yrs. Either way am I to understand that this was ultimately removed from the bill? I hope so. This was before the most recent dust up w Trump and I was greatly put off by it as should be everyone else.
The absence of content on US social media regarding the EU Immigration 'circus' (to put it nicely) would be astounding to me, if it weren't for my understanding of how fettered and clogged the filter ahead of the stream is with *actual* news. That being said, people in the US are finally waking up (very slowly, but surely) to the reprehensible evils being perpetrated, allowed, and encouraged to transpire against our various Motherland's, and I believe they are watching with furrowed brows and apprehension of encroaching carnage, with the literal proof of the destruction and rape of our people by living-detritus seeping through the cracks, like pools of blood through a barnyard roof.
Zuckerberg, Gates, (likely Wynn) and literal countless others like them should've been nailed to a post and flayed alive ages ago. If only we lived in a time with less remote-manipulation capabilities, we may have fared better.
I relate to your bit about the censorship and clamping-down from outside forces only enhancing your resolve and doubling your fight, as I've been the same way my entire life, and watched the depths of my drive increase with exponential intensity the further I am pressed to an inverse. Often to the point of bewilderment of my peers, who seem to believe there is always an 'easier path' in 'relinquishing' or 'stepping back'. Fuck that noise. We need now more than ever people who refuse to stop or turn around, and, to the contrary, press through harder.
Thank you for what you do.
I must be the world’s biggest cynic but - I can’t imagine a world where sharing all my most private events and personal thoughts publicly, would not leave me vulnerable for exploitation and negativity, somehow by someone.
Precisely the reason I was never drawn to Facebook.
I am like you, a professor in college told me I didn't belong in the sciences, I got a Bachelor's in Physics, and a Master's in Electrical Engineering.
A director told me I couldn't be a project leader, so I changed to a different job and became a very effective leader.
These people want to silence us but it makes our resolve that much stronger.
We moved out of our parent's house and their control for a reason.
Every human has an innate sense to step out and explore the world on their terms, not someone else's.
Thanks for fighting. I am a proud supporter, you have so much wisdom. I do hope more people step up to help you even if it's just a cup of coffee. When we are united, we are stronger.
re: "A thousand years of traditional knowledge held by Europe’s farmers is slated to be destroyed and replaced by frankenfoods made by possibly the most hated man in the world, another digital overlord, Bill Gates.."
Between and around that stinking pile of absolute incarnate evil and diarrhea (IMHO far worse than zuck) and the steaming pile of shit that is Zuckerberg should be a Citizen with a scoped rifle and cross hairs center of mass on their cabezas. The American people have a 2A right to end tyranny wherever it pops up and sending these two (and their sycophants) on their way to an eternity in hell is way overdo. The 2A - not just for government tyrants.
There's an easy solution to some of this: don't participate.
Don't buy the frankenfoods.
Don't get on platforms like facebook.
Use cash whenever possible.
Use a VPN
Use a browser with a built in VPN online
We are not powerless here.
Don't comply.
I was a sales/biz dev executive in "The Valley" for three decades. One of my start-ups built some of the very first "predictive analytics" algorithms decades ago. We spent hours discussing whether we should have consumers "opt in" or "opt out"....in regards to privacy while balancing for growth. It seems quaint now. On another note, and having also been trained in statistics in grad school, I immediately started looking (or not looking...Neil Ferguson said his modeals were too intricate to understand) for data on which 2.2 million U.S. covid deaths could be based. It did not take long to figure out it was a scam. My wife is much more intuitive and said almost immediately that "this is b.s.". Love your observations.
One of the sharpest points you make here is that it’s not the spectacle of censorship that’s most corrosive... it’s the quiet, casual normalcy of it. The backroom chats. The unspoken consensus. The invisible throttling that makes people think they’re alone.
It’s a strange kind of brilliance: build the infrastructure of belonging so well that people will tolerate almost anything to stay tethered.
That’s the part I keep coming back to. Not just the scale of it, but the way it hijacks our nervous systems to feel connection and coercion as the same thing.
Groupthink on steroids.
Groupthink is part of it, sure -- but I think this goes deeper. It’s not just shared beliefs; it’s engineered dependency. The infrastructure creates the need to conform so we don’t lose our tether to belonging. What we have now is manufactured consensus masquerading as a true collective mythos -- propped up by algorithms and the fear of exile, not any real shared meaning.
So you admit you're a retard?
I am just a geologist, but one especially attuned to data gathering and analysis. I saw how Y2K made no sense but fortunately it timed out. "Global warming" was assendant and it too made no sense. So, they rebranding to "climate change" as it allows denser fog to hide reality. Covid was no different and I used government numbers to show that. Then I jumped feet first into politics (if you don't like what is happening at least try to fix the problem). That is where I ran head first into Facebooks censorship. I quit them and have no interest in ever going back. Unfortunately the free access to information that came with the early days of the internet are gone but we need to keep fighting the censors, in all their forms. Hopefully Substack will continue giving people like myself, and especially those like Elizabeth, exposing the ever increasing propaganda. No longer can we trust anyone in government and tech.
Don't hold your breath, substack will be full-blown cen sor ship next!
Oh, I don't disagree! Expect the worst but hope for the best.
This is why I subscribe to Substack- what a RIVETING and informative post - actually consequential to our existence. Will be sharing this everywhere 💯🙏🏻💯