The Internet Purge is Coming to a Censorship Insistent Platform Near You: first they will censor “fake” news, next they will censor “fake” money (bitcoin)

in #informationwar6 years ago (edited)

We’ve reached an important tipping point in network dynamics that threatens to further balkanize the information that you’re allowed to hear and share with others. In the future, your choices will largely dictate whether you prosper and continue to grow, or become indigent and enslaved. It would be a good idea to now stop rewarding the following entities with your information or your money (which will in the future be abused and used against you):

Facebook
Twitter
Google
YouTube
Apple
Microsoft
Amazon

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There are other centralized IT platforms, but these are the ones that I try to avoid. This has been a long time coming. The internet started in a very decentralized manner in the early days of the late 1980’s and early 90’s. My favorite search engine back then was Webcrawler, but there was also Yahoo!, Einet Galaxy, Ask, Altavista, and dozens of others. I used to use a web tool to automatically submit my web pages to several different search engines back in the days before Google.

In those days there was no dominant “go to” place for news on the web. Webmasters had the habit of creating related links pages as a jump to your next website while you “surf the web”. This doesn’t happen any more. Chances are you’ve allowed one of the above fascist companies to dictate to you what you read. They have enormous power over you to form the opinion they want you to have.

In the process, these companies have begun to stagnate just as the brick and mortar businesses that came before them. The brick and mortar businesses couldn’t see the internet coming and were caught off guard. The same is now happening to the above businesses which failed to see bitcoin coming. But both classes of business have within their power the ability to steal ideas and use the legal system to their advantage.

Parasites have trouble with innovation which is why they are always lagging behind. Parasitic companies are basically like vultures that look over the new upstart companies, watch what they do and then they either copy them, steal their work or buy them out. They often seek to undermine new upstarts and have a philosophy that makes them believe that they have a right to own their customers.

If you wonder why I speak in this way, it’s because I have direct personal experience with this as a business owner now for 25 years. This is very personal to me and I know how some of these CEO’s think because I have had to deal with them. If you are a trusting (naive) person in the business world, you will be taken advantage of and eventually left for dead.

Just as the internet caused the phenomena of “fake news” to flourish, soon we will begin to see the phenomena of “fake money” where people begin to question what money is real and which isn’t. Right now, governments around the world are preying on their own populations and engaging in currency wars against other governments for profit. Andreas explains what is about to happen to us in the near future…


(credit - Andreas Antonopoulos)

Just as the above entities have colluded together to ban Alex Jones and many other dissenting voices by labeling them “extreme content” or "hate speech", they will soon attempt to do the same with internet commerce by making it difficult for you to take the bitcoin exit.

When the USD is threatened as the world’s reserve currency by stateless crypto, we will see Gresham’s law begin to play out in the west. The phrase “the full faith and credit” will begin to ring hollow everywhere. Bank bail ins will commence and everyone foolish enough to hold their money in a bank will be subjected to “haircuts”.

The president and senate will appear on TV wrapping their national fiat in the flag with an appeal to nationalism. They will call everyone using bitcoin and other crypto’s criminals. They will send out their enforcers (police) to round up bitcoin hodlers at gunpoint using the $5 wrench attack to extort money to help keep government afloat. There will be many assassinations of known bitcoin hodlers. When will this happen? Most likely during the next bitcoin bull run in the early 2020's.

Some cops will begin to accept bribes in the illegal currency because the national fiat that they are paid in will not be enough to sustain their lifestyle. The judges and politicians knowing full well what to expect next will entrap their own police which is when the police will be forced to pay the judges and politicians to keep from being caged.

In the end, when governments begin to collapse all over the world because everyone has taken the bitcoin exit, the judges and politicians will escape to a quiet corner with their ill gotten gains.

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This is a worst-case scenario. It very well could happen in America. I wouldn't be surprised. However, I think this viewpoint lacks worldwide perspective.

The harder some countries crack down on crypto, the more other countries will embrace them. Any country that tries to ban crypto will face the dire ramifications of denying a technology that is more valuable than the Internet itself.

I believe it is this dynamic that will prevent the worst-case scenario described... maybe not.

I agree. There is constant competition between countries for advantage and many are seeing Crypto as an opportunity.

Everything that I have predicted is really just a repeat of what has already happened in several smaller countries: Venezuela, Argentina, Cyprus, Ukraine, Greece, Zimbabwe, India, and China just to name a few. What's happening in Turkey right now is why I wrote this. Some hodlers have already been kidnapped.

That is quite a disturbing outlook but if things keep going the way the governments want, that's exactly what will happen.. :|

I think it's been a slow process. For me it really sunk in when the White House Press Core was informed they could only ask pre - approved questions submitted in writing in advance; that, to me anyway, explained everything I needed to know about the media and their ability to tell me what I need to know.

As for fiat; many Nations keep their reserves in Gold. Greetings!

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