The digital world wasn’t supposed to be a gated community. It was supposed to be a place to build. But now, the Internet is just a managed echo chamber in the hands of very few powerful tech giants. With very few exceptions, digital free speech is a thing of the past for the average user of the Internet. If you haven’t had the privilege of being told “no” or completely banned from a tech giant platform (I’ve experienced it on multiple occasions), then you may not fully know how evil their agenda is. Move to another platform, begin the same message, and you will be stopped – if you intend to build a movement that will stop their progress, their agenda.
They will let you rant and vent until you’re blue in the face. It is a classic steam valve effect. They know that if they tighten the lid too hard, the pressure builds up and the whole system explodes. So, they give us these digital pressure relief valves. They let us shout into the void, argue with strangers, and post “dissenting” opinions to our heart’s content, provided we stay within the safe lines of their approved rhetoric, and within the echo chambers they’ve constructed.
By letting us “vent,” they keep the population complacent. You feel like you’ve accomplished something because you “spoke your mind” on a platform that was never going to change because of your post anyway. It gives you the satisfaction of a fight without the risk of actually winning one. This isn’t an open square; it’s a containment zone.
Politicians and Partnerships
We see this same pattern in our politics. Whether it’s the two-party system or the corporate tech monopoly, we have an illusion of choice because the ‘other option’ isn’t viable. We see ranting and racing on C-SPAN or social media – with no real effective change. We are trapped in a one-party loop where both sides destroy the country in their own ways. When a real candidate appears who could actually do a good job, we’re told they can’t win. When we try to build an alternative, the media machine and the digital algorithms work together to make sure we don’t have a real choice.
Our ancestors knew what happens when the State gets into bed with an ‘East India’ corporation. It wasn’t about tax; it was about control. Do rights come from government or God? Our ancestors vehemently opposed Corporate/Government partnerships – to the point of shedding blood to see their children free. They weren’t opposed to authority, they were opposed to tyranny – and if there is anything that describes our political system (and big tech) it is tyranny. From COVID lockdowns to snatch-and-grab kidnappings of leaders of sovereign governments, the age-old Corporate/Government partnerships are being used to bring “we the people”and the whole world to heel. Like the Boston Tea Party, we seek to subvert and supplant the assets being sold by these new “East India” corporations and government.
Most of you are aware that I just launched this business, and, not ironically, when I tried to run an ad for VaultNode—a tool designed to help people own their data and protect their 4th Amendment rights—I hit a wall. They flagged the ad as a “socially sensitive” or “politically influential”. The offending ad is at the beginning of this post. The requirements to get it live were a joke: they expect you to hand over ID, jump through months of red tape, and register your private (non-political) business as a political entity. Even worse, suggestions came that if I wanted to avoid the headache, I might even simply change my business name to something more “neutral.”
Never Ending Gaslighting
Don’t fall for the “may have been rejected” line. I’ve been down this road before. That is exactly their opinion. They want us bland, quiet, and willing to play the game on their terms. How on earth is the defense of God-given rights now considered “socially sensitive”? Protecting your privacy and property isn’t a “left” or “right” issue. It isn’t about who gets offended. It is a matter of Natural Law—as sure and steady as the Creator who gave us those rights. This should be an issue that unites us all, regardless of our political labels.
When a tech company treats the defense of your rights as a “political” risk, they are telling you what they think of your liberty. They don’t want you to be a free person; they want you to be a data point. The hypocrisy is astounding considering the owners of these platforms themselves were caught doing exactly the very thing they say they protect us from. They are gatekeepers.
Fine. If they want to force us into a grassroots movement, we will prove that it’s the most powerful force on earth. We won’t do this by strength – they are strong, but we are weak. We won’t do this by might – they are titans, we are the lowly. God willing, this will be done by the Spirit. It requires a movement of, by, and for the people. It requires us to stop begging for permission and start building the parallel infrastructure, businesses, and communities that can survive apart from their control. The only way this will work on “their” platforms is to like and share these principles far and wide.
The system won’t change itself. We have to change the terrain. It’s time to stop paying for our own surveillance and start building the tools that serve the city on the hill – the one for all to see the goodness of God at work. The choice is yours: stay inside their gated community, or help us build a home for the free.