21 June 2023
Some of you may recall that this blog started out on a private server, using very simple HTML to avoid any content management software. I was expecting trouble. The honest truth is that I chose to cover topics that I knew would eventually provoke someone. It was a sort of test to see how far I could go. That response did come and I was forced to shut that blog down to protect the people who were leasing me the server space.
It didn't really matter who was behind the pressure to shut it down. What we live with are the effects of that oppression. I was much more interested in the results; that tells us far more about the spiritual dynamics.
Over the months since that shutdown, I've been testing other things. All the major free email services based in the US refuse to let me set up an account under my chosen nickname -- GMX, Yahoo, others, even Zoho based in India. I'm also having trouble with Gravatar, hindering me from commenting on WordPress blogs. It's the nick, not the IP address I work from. I've tested it using VPNs. The techniques used vary, but there's always some plausible excuse why they can't do it. I've had to go outside the US to take advantage of any services. This shows in yet one more way how the government and Big Tech are working together to censor anything they don't like.
I'll grant that Substack allows me to post there [temporarily], but they are notorious for not responding to that kind of pressure. There are standing complaints from the likes of ADL about Substack. That says a lot about the people behind Substack.
I don't have access to the kind of network opportunities to test this situation thoroughly, but I do know that I'm hardly the only target of censorship. A lot of this has been going on for a long time. The only difference now is that it's much more routine, and far more widespread. We've had revelations from inside Twitter and a few others to indicate what sort of mechanism exists.
One that does work: Proton Mail in Switzerland (catacombrez@proton.me). Since it worked so well, I started paying for the premium version. I'm sure there are others, but many of them have no free version. My point is the drift of things. It's an odd situation trying to publish faith-based materials when the US aspires to act like China. I believe the only reason we don't have the massive reeducation camps is because our government is overwhelmed by the size of the resistance.
It's not that I promote any kind of political agenda. Rather, I'm being lumped in with those who do, due to the government's limited perspective. Our rulers do not tolerate resistance of any kind for any reason. It's what we call "totalitarianism" -- a government that is not restricted by any constitution or laws. In our case, it's a government that simply pays no attention to the existing constitution, except as a façade. The hammer is covered with velvet.
You need to understand that I created this persona specifically so it can be discarded when it no longer serves the purpose. While I cannot see the endpoint in terms of timing, I know it's there. You need to know it, too. It's not that the voice will be silenced, but that the persona will simply dissolve. The message does not belong to me; I belong to it. The message will not die.
Comments
DarkMirror
Re: your nickname, is that why your substack url is "catacombrez"?
Interesting about substack and the C00vid "misinfo":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substack#Criticism
I checked on Infogalactic but it doesn't have that criticism section.
Catacomb Resident
The URL is simply an abbreviation of my nick; I used the same abbreviation on the original blog URL. And Infogalactic is blocked on Google. Even the Duck doesn't crawl Infogalatic, so any search for specific subjects will often return simply the front page of Infogalactic.
DarkMirror
Weird. Infogalactic at least has a page on substack:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Substack
I searched "substack" directly on Infogalactic. Do you know why Google doesn't crawl it? Is it Google being grumpy about something not quite approved?
Catacomb Resident
Google tends to de-list any source that provides the wrong answers to controversies like COVID, Global Warming, and various wokisms.
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