The following is a news analysis.
In a recent live chat on Periscope, I suggested steps people can take now to overcome Big Tech censorship while the situation shakes down and solutions are sought. Here is a summary.
Watch the full live chat at the link at the end of this post.
What can I do about Big Tech censorship now? Decentralize.
- Diversify by learning about and joining other social media and Internet services such as Parler, Gab, DuckDuckGo, and Reddit. It may seem like a lot of extra work initially, but if you slowly shift your reliance away from the same handful of companies, it will be worth it in the long run.
- Learn about ham (amateur) radio. I’m told the online test for a license is cheap and easy to get. Find out more in the large group “Ham Radio” on Facebook.
- Join the “Decentralizers” forum at LarrySanger.org. (Sanger is the co-founder of Wikipedia who parted with the project over it becoming a propaganda tool of agenda editors for corporate and political interests.) He’s among a group of people working on solutions and if you want to stay abreast of any developments or share ideas, you can do it here.
- Subscribe to SharylAttkisson.com (see the subscribe form on right sidebar of the home page or scroll down on mobile site). You will get news about this topic and other matters delivered directly to your in-box. I am trying to aggregate and publicize a lot of material about censorship.
- Read and circulate items under the “Censored” tab at SharylAttkisson.com.
- Start your own website. It’s cheap and easy.
- Watch “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” live Sundays on TV, or replays on the app STIRR, or online anytime at FullMeasure.news. I’ll be starting a new feature highlighting censored topics, people and studies. My two part investigation on Big Tech censorship can be found here and here.
- Call out and speak out against censorship whether it’s conducted by Big Tech, pushed by propaganda groups such as Media Matters, or executed by the news.
- Read and share my new bestseller that dissects this topic and tells more about what’s behind it: “Slanted: How the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism.” Find it at your local library or ask your library to purchase copies.
- Communicate with people in the real world outside of the Internet. Like we used to.
- Watch original unedited hearings and news conferences on CSPAN or other places you can find them.
- When you see news outlets, “fact checkers,” Internet companies, and others working hard to keep you from seeing or believing something; or controversializing a news outlet, reporter, or other person; use that as a cue to understand that the item/fact/study at issue may actually be true and worthy of further inquiry on your part. The attention giving to censor or controversialize typically signals that powerful interests are trying to hide something or attempting to further a narrative that may be false.
- Listen to the Podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours“
- Don’t be discouraged; be motivated.
Watch the live chat:
https://www.pscp.tv/SharylAttkisson/1yoKMALljYwKQ
There are already some interesting solutions, like
ZeroNet (offering ZeroMe as social site) https://zeronet.io
Tox https://tox.chat
Manyverse https://www.manyver.se
all three can work in full p2p + Manyverse can have Pub servers (central nodes) too. They are open source so code can be used or forked.
Hubzilla also deserves a look for its ‘Nomadic Identity’ function (sharing a profile on multiple servers and modifying synchronously): https://alternativeto.net/software/hubzilla/reviews/#
Reddit is one of the most-censored sites.
You may want to explore Ruqqus and Saidit instead.
Everyone needs to look into jami.net it is a peer to peer messaging application. It offers end to end encryption of your messages. It does video, audio and desktop sharing conference and more. It is a very capable application. It is a bit buggy from my tests but my god what a great thing to see being actively developed using old school networking method (peer to peer). This is a solution to keep big tech from censoring us. Make it popular people! Even if you don’t become big users right away learn how it works and pass the word on. There is also a system available from jitsi.org. This one does not seem to be as general purpose as Jami but it is an alternative for reliable video conferencing.
I don’t know what it’s like in US, but in Australia getting a website and hosting is NOT so cheap – unless you use Big Tech options like GoDaddy & WordPress (Sharyl!).
I agree, Mike, that getting your own domain name is a sensible way to manage your own website and even for those who don’t need a site, to manage your own email.
In that way, anyone can store their emails on their own computers, rather than using an email address from the generic mail providers. Those providers retain Gb’s of others’ private mail on their servers. There’s a reason their services are free!
If you want own website and email address: try looking for an independent web developer that offers web & email hosting on their own infrastructure, not on AWS etc. It will not be the cheapest option, but it is a step away from Big Tech.
It’s hard not to get discouraged, especially in the past couple of days now that the Democrats and the media are actively working to suppress any and every narrative that contradicts theirs. It’s like their version of The Handmaids Tale in coming to fruition. Gilead come to life.
One suggestion I can make is the Epic Privacy Browser, it has a built in VPN, it doesn’t keep a history and claims to be private and secure (as secure as many things can be on the internet for non-tech users)
If you allow links: https://epicbrowser.com/
No support for Linux? Really would like to use this but getting away from Microsoft is just as important to me.
I looked into Epic browser. I found the Brave browser might be more along the lines of the required browser for the current internet information war. It has built in tor browser. It also kicks the big ad manager billionaires in the balls by replacing ads with its own ad network. It also pays you in crypto to view the ads. hahahaha!!! take that google and facebook!
Get the brave browser! http://www.brave.com
As others have mentioned, ham radio IS an important tool for emergency communications. Sry – hard to cover all ham radio is in a short post. Just thought those who may want to begin political discussions to know that the two governing documents: The Ham Code Of Conduct and The Ham Code Of Ethics And Operating Procedures specifically describe that a ham is CONSIDERATE ( their caps not mine) and never knowingly operates in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others. The words friendly, kind, considerate, tolerant, polite, positive and brotherly abound in other portions.
Gab?
There are 70 million folks wondering whats going on with very little sources to rely on. My wife and i have always thought Sheryl was the only real journalist left in america . I hope they dont try to cause her problems.
Going to? The Deep State has already invaded her work laptop, her iMac desktop and her MacBookAir.. The current state of her law suit is on this site
There are reports that some people are being fired or pressured into resigning simply for being at last week’s demonstration, even if they never went near the Capitol building.
Oakland California police department is currently cleansing its ranks, those who don’t offer up “self-criticism” will be fired. Expect the frenzy to ramp up into rest of workplaces very soon.
Lots of links and information here about alternatives to cellphones that use Google’s Android operating system :
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3924027/posts
Reddit and Gab are now joining in the racketeering and blocking free speech!
Hi Sharyl – Allow me to enhance this list:
* Register a domain name – talk about cheap and easy, and use this for your Web site as well as your email. There are of course technical details to hook it all up, but this is how you can not only control your name on the Internet but move the hosting if you need to without losing traffic.
* Get an RSS reader – I get notified of new posts here in my RSS reader. After Google killed its Google Reader product over a decade ago, RSS became out of fashion, but it still works and is even the underpinnings of podcasting!
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Excellent suggestions Mike! ty
I really miss the Google rss reader. I’m not tech savvy enough to know what to replace it with. I saw outlook has one, but 1. It’s my work email, and 2. I don’t want to rely on Microsoft.