From Beyond the Wire – The Information War, CBDCs and a Metaphor for Those Who Need


Posted originally on the CTH on March 27, 2024 | Sundance

After my latest outline on the looming probability of a dollar based CBDC {SEE HERE} I found myself saying, “I hate to say this, but most people really don’t care. For some, the issue is esoteric, abstract, and difficult to comprehend. For others, there is a massive blanket of comfortable ambivalence until the consequences hit. For the few who understand, this is extremely troubling.”

Then I step back, breathe and reevaluate my ability to communicate.

A few recent comments have me looking for something, anything, that will help people understand the scope and breadth of what I am trying to communicate, and the challenge therein.  EXAMPLES:

[COMMENT #1] – I don’t know, this is way over my head, and I consider myself at least somewhat intelligent and informed. Other than a few twenties I keep in my wallet, all money of consequence in my life is already just digits in computer networks as far as I can perceive. I never actually see a check for my wages, much less any dead presidents.

[…] Not that I disagree, I just don’t understand. I’m at a loss as to why this is so qualitatively different as far as my financial security goes. Maybe it’s because I’m a resident of Illinois and have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome from knowing they can already, and do, raise my taxes – as much as they want, any time they want – and there is nothing to stop them. {link}

[COMMENT #2]I apologize for this stupid question, but I’m confused. How do the grey countries fit into this digital money and “world order” Pippa refers to?

Pippa states “But what I see our superpowers introducing digital currency, the Chinese were the first the US is on the brink, I think of moving in the same direction the Europeans have committed to that as well.”

China is grey on the map, as is Russia. If we, the mapped yellow USA, are being boxed in by the Russian sanctions how is it China is grey yet they were the first to introduce a digital currency?  These insane, drunk with power “superpowers” – is their goal to color the entire world map yellow with the SWIFT network digital coin to control the entire world?  {link}

You come here for understanding the world that exists, not the one we may hope to exist.  If you are confused, I need to do a better job.

So, let me start.

I will start first with some information perhaps some do not know.

♦ Ever since the western sanctions against Russia were created, an entire new black market of finance has been created in the “grey zone” that circumvents the sanctions and assists the people trapped by them.

Almost no one, sans a handful of people I have met, really have a full scope understanding of what is going on.

You cannot discover this information within the yellow zone.  You cannot get this level of comprehension from behind a keyboard safely in your home office or den.  You have to put your boots on the ground, take some risks and see exactly how it works. {Example Here}

The Russian sanctions were not created to block the Russians.  The Russian sanctions were created to wall-in the West.

There are now networks of people who operate in various places that create proactive financial mechanisms for what you might call, “financial preppers.”

These people and groups set up bank accounts in foreign countries for you; they organize addresses (needed), phone numbers (needed), and create accounts that you can access that are outside the control of the dollar-based financial system.  You can even get an official passport in the process.

These people also sell hardware [to support the phone numbers (really digital ids)] that is completely different from what exists behind the wall of the yellow zone.

How many Americans know that an iPhone-15 sold in the USA is completely different from an iPhone-15 sold outside the yellow zone? Meaning the internal hardware is different.  How many Americans know that?

How many Americans know that an iPhone-15 sold inside the USA has different originating software than an iPhone-15 sold outside the USA?

How many people know that when you purchase one of these “ghost phones” the data network automatically identifies the disparity when the phone crosses into the yellow zone, and shortly thereafter the cellular network transmits a software update to bring the “ghost phone” into USA (yellow zone) compliance?

How many Americans know phone apps and internal app functions can exist on phones outside the yellow zone that do not exist inside the yellow zone?

Example: use a ghost phone and you can access a digital wallet in Telegram; you can transmit funds to other Telegram users. However, use a USA compliant phone and you cannot.  The function is there but the service is, “not available in your area.”

Why?

It’s about control.

If you don’t update the software, the function exists inside the yellow zone.  However, update the software and the function disappears.

This happens.

Another real-life example was recently missed by many people when the story of the Apple Watch Series 9, was found to have violated patent technology and banned for sale in the USA. {STORY}

To get into legal compliance, Apple transmitted a remote software update disabling the function of the patent technology in the USA.  Again, for emphasis, only in the USA.   Bring your non-compliant Series-9 into the range of a wifi network and bingo auto-compliance.  I mention this story only to highlight a modern compliance capability that many people do not know exists.

In essence, your tech devices -and the capability therein- are different than an identical tech device sold outside the western control zone.

♦ Technology is intertwined with Central Bank Digital Currencies.  Tech companies are regulated by the U.S/Western government, and the tech companies have to comply.  The regulatory compliance is part of the process of control.  There are regulatory walls around us that most do not understand.  The same regulatory principle applies to finance and banking. Hence, the origination motive of the yellow zone wall, built under the auspices of Russian sanctions.

Let me make one big point resoundingly clear before moving on.  When the WESTERN Central Bank Digital Currency system begins, all forms of cryptocurrency will be blocked and made unlawful, inside the western zone, either by regulation or by legislation.

Let me repeat this.  Cryptocurrency in all forms will be banned.

Crypto is not technically a currency, it is a barter based on trust.  However, at a certain point (origination or end) crypto must have the ability to transfer into currency value. Dollars (or another currency) are needed to purchase BitCoin,…. or BitCoin eventually sold or exchanged for Dollars (or another currency).  [BitCoin only used as a familiar type of crypto.]  This process is where crypto gets blocked.

Ownership of Crypto may not be unlawful, but any effort to use Crypto as an alternate digital currency to exchange value will be unlawful once the dollar based CBDC is launched.

A fully implemented govt controlled central bank digital currency will not allow competition.  Alternate crypto currency will be banned.  Without any doubt!

Back to the original questions:

“China is grey on the map, as is Russia. If we, the mapped yellow USA, are being boxed in by the Russian sanctions how is it China is grey yet they were the first to introduce a digital currency?”

The grey zone can trade amongst themselves however they want; the yellow zone (West) has no capability to stop them.  ex. if Russia wants to trade 1,000 barrels of oil with China for 100 boxes of intel microchips, they can.  Or if China and Russia want to exchange digital yen for digital rubles, they can; the West cannot stop them.  However, if China wants to interact with a yellow zone member, the yellow zone financial rule makers have rules.  China would have to be compliant with a dollar based CBDC to exchange value within the yellow zone.

Similarly, if you want to exchange a bushel of corn for 10 dozen eggs with your neighbor, you can; there is no mechanism to stop you.  However, if you need to pay your mortgage you will have to be compliant with a dollar based CBDC to exchange value, ie pay your bill.

Which brings me to the next question:

“all money of consequence in my life is already just digits in computer networks as far as I can perceive. … I’m at a loss as to why this is so qualitatively different as far as my financial security.”

This is the common mistake that most people make.

There is a big difference between “electronic transactions” of dollars, and the existence of a “digital dollar.

Let me give you a metaphor using a casino as the reference.

♦ CURRENT – You go to the casino window and exchange $10,000 dollars for poker chips valued at $10,000.  You give the teller $10,000 in cash, bankers check, money order, a credit card or debit card transaction, and the teller gives you chips worth $10,000 in that casino.   You can use the chips gambling and perhaps win more chips.   Return to the window with $12,000 in casino chips and the teller exchanges the chips for $12,000 dollars, cash or check or deposit into your electronic card.

You meet a man in the casino willing to give you his fancy Rolex watch in exchange for $5,000.  You give the man $5,000 worth of your poker chips and he gives you his Rolex watch.  That man can then go to the teller window and exchange the chips for $5,000 in cash.  You have the watch.

♦ DIGITAL DOLLAR – You go to the teller window and produce your bank card containing a digital dollar balance.  You exchange $10,000 worth of your digital dollars for $10,ooo dollars’ worth of poker chips.  Except this time, with a digital dollar, each poker chip has your fingerprint on it.  You spend or bet your poker chips, and each chip you win also arrives to you with your fingerprint on it.  You win $12,000 dollars.  You return to the window with $12,000 in chips, each with your fingerprint, and the teller uploads your card with $12,000 digital dollars.

You meet a man in the casino willing to give you his fancy Rolex watch in exchange for $5,ooo.  However, you cannot give the man your poker chips because they are unique to you and carrying your fingerprint.  If he takes your fingerprint poker chips to the window, his fingerprint does not match the chip, his request for $5,000 in digital dollars would be denied.  He cannot sell you his watch. Your transactional capability is limited by the digital fingerprint.

[If he was planning to sell his watch for $5,000 in order to purchase a motorcycle worth $5,ooo, it is possible for you to purchase the motorcycle, exchange it for his watch and then carry on.  However, the motorcycle would be digitally registered to you, and you would be digitally registered to the motorcycle.  A reconciliation process is needed.]

A digital dollar creates a unique id attached to that digital dollar.  Ultimately, the central bank that issues the digital dollar controls what the digital id can do (that’s you), and what those digital dollars can be used for (what you can do).

Digital dollars can be blocked from gun purchases, and digital ids can be used to stop unapproved users from purchasing guns; or a gas guzzling suv, or a house that’s too big, or the non-compliant fridge, or whatever.

Sellers of goods (or information) can have their ids banned from receiving digital dollars, just as VISA and MasterCard blocked sellers of guns from accessing their electronic transaction system.  With digital dollars, “demonetization”, an alarmingly familiar modern term, can become a function of a financial regulation system.  “Debanking” another alarmingly familiar term, also becomes much easier.

Ultimately, a dollar-based US-Central Bank Digital Currency, ie a “digital dollar,” is about control.

Every transaction has a unique digital fingerprint, and every digital dollar can be traced by the IRS to the digital id associated with it.

There is a BIG difference between electronic funds (current), and a digital dollar (future).

I hope that helps.

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Viral Video Shows Shocking State of Our Border: When Is It Time to Use Force to Defend Our Country?


Posted originally on Rumble By Charlie Kirk show on: Mar 23, 2024 at 8:200 pm EST

3.15.24: Dead Cat Bounce? March madness, TikTok censorship, GOV controlling information? Pray!


Posted originally on Rumble By And We Know on: Mar 15, 2024 at 2:47 pm EST

Google and Election Interference


Posted originally on Mar 20, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Google

Anyone with access to the internet from 2019 to 2020 can tell you that Google did, in fact, meddle in the 2020 US Presidential Elections in favor of then-candidate Joe Biden. Media Research Center found that Google interfered 41 times over the last 16 years, which is a drastic underestimation. Google continues to interfere in politics by using its algorithm to favor pro-Biden and anti-Trump results; even its failed AI system, Gemini, refused to criticize the Biden regime.

The issue is that Google is the most popular search engine. “Google” has become a verb; “Google” [insert search criteria here] for information. Not many realize that the information they are seeking on Google is censored, filtered, and deliberately presented to users in certain areas to align with its interests. Google heavily lobbies governments globally, but has an extreme sway over politicians within the establishment on the right and left.

“MRC researchers have found 41 times where Google interfered in elections over the last 16 years, and its impact has surged dramatically, making it evermore harmful to democracy. In every case, Google harmed the candidates – regardless of party – who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice,” MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pariseau co-authored. Again, Google targets ANY anti-establishment candidate, but the study found that the search engine pushes “electoral victory [for] the most liberal candidates, regardless of the party, while targeting their opponents for censorship.”

Armstrong Propaganda

This has been going on for many years, and the public is unaware that they have been subconsciously deceived. Google tried to protect Hillary Clinton in 2016 by suppressing unfavorable search results, and it protected Barack Obama in 2008 similarly. Google interferes in elections and business globally and has partnered with the World Economic Forum and other globalist cabals. The forces are doing everything in their power to remove our access to information amid this private wave where the public has lost all trust in the establishment.

Millions of people use Google daily to access information that is heavily censored and skewed in favor of left-leaning establishment politics. You can try it for yourself to see what search results appear when attempting to look up information about a particular situation or candidate. Google is not only altering information, but it is collecting your data while doing so.

 I will explain in an upcoming blog post how Google and META bought the entirety of Congress. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, and other search engines are far superior to Google. Bing, Google, and Yahoo, three of the most popular search engines, have all been compromised.

Supreme Court Appears to Lean Favorably Toward Government in First Amendment Case of Federal Coercion of Social Media


Posted originally on the CTH on March 18, 2024 | Sundance 

Oral arguments were heard today in the appeal of the government against the states of Louisiana, Missouri and seven plaintiffs who claim that Biden officials, including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media platforms to suppress or delete content about COVID-19 that federal officials found objectionable.

The Biden administration had an extensive communication pipeline into Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube and various subsidiary tech companies where instructions, the government says “encouragement”, were/was given about the removal of content critical of the government position, and the removal of content providers – American citizens.  Full Hearing Audio:

Making the case for the Biden administration, Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher led the way.  “We don’t think it’s possible for the government — through speech alone — to transform private speakers into state actors,” he said.

Fletcher said the government didn’t engage in coercion — which he said would be unconstitutional — just encouragement and persuasion for the social media platforms to enforce their existing rules at the time barring Covid-19 misinformation.  “If it stays on the persuasion side of the line — and all we’re talking about is government speech — then there’s no state action and there’s also no First Amendment problem,” he said. “I think it’s clear this is exhortation, not threat.”

Louisiana state Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga, arguing for the plaintiffs, said the speech the platforms were suppressing wasn’t their own speech but those of third parties, ordinary Americans. Aguiñaga also said the users often had no idea they were being impacted by the federal effort to prod the platforms to take down content.  “The bulk of it is behind closed doors. That is what is so pernicious about it,” he said.

The questioning by the majority of the Supreme Court justices appeared to favor the government, in large part due to the inability of the plaintiffs to outline direct actionable harm to them as an outcome of the regulation of their speech by the tech platforms.  The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision in the case by late June.

President Obama Visits British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak


Posted originally on the CTH on March 18, 2024 | Sundance |

President Obama was presumably in London, England, for a fundraising meeting for the Obama foundation when he was spotted going to the Prime Minister’s office at #10 Downing Street. Details of the visit are sketchy, much like the president himself.

LONDON — Former U.S. President Barack Obama has called in for a surprise teatime visit with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at No. 10 Downing Street.

Obama, who served as president between 2009 and 2017, walked up the famous street shortly after 3 p.m, waving to the press as he entered No. 10. He is in town for a meeting of the Obama Foundation, his non-profit organization.

Downing Street later said that the pair spoke for around an hour over cups of tea. They discussed a range of subjects including Artificial Intelligence. (read more)

Video Below:

Suspicious cat remains, well, suspicious…

More Censorship


Posted originally on Mar 17, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

The Silenced Voice of British Truth Teller Neil Oliver Still Speaks Brutal Honesty, They Just “Tuckered” Him


Posted originally on the CTH on March 17, 2024 | Sundance

I have increasingly said that all around those who live in the “western democracies” there is an information war taking place.  The primary targets of that information war are the truth tellers who do not point fingers directly toward the Potemkin Village of political representatives, but more importantly point out the people who really control the actions taken by the politicians.

Within this quiet and opaque battlespace, a place where only the well-studied and smart grey people travel, we talk about root causes and identify the true origin of the cancerous control systems.  This is the world of finance, money and global influence, the political outcomes are downstream.  The grey men are the ones who I believe are the core of the greatest awakening. I consider myself a proud member.

Amid the “grey man group” is the voice of Neil Oliver, a voice who was increasingly red pilling the people of Great Britain, who, like us, are also in an abusive relationship with government.  The British Government through OfCom took Neil Oliver off air stopping his televised broadcasts. However, even though they are not allowed to have him on television, GBNews still puts Oliver’s content on YouTube. WATCH:

[Transcript] – We tell ourselves that children are our most precious resource and treasure. We sing songs about it. I believe that children are our future and all that jazz. Let’s have a look at the recent reality of life and death of children around the world, shall we?

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 12,300 children have been killed in that open air prison since October last year. The children of the generation that went through the fires of hell and said, never again, are witnessing 21st century children consumed by other flames.

Plausible genocide the International Court of Justice calls it, if taken at face value, it would mean more children died in Gaza between October last year and February this year than the combined number of all that died in all conflict around the world in the four years from 2019 to 2022.

For those who dismiss numbers presented by the Gaza Health Ministry as unreliable, even fictional, the Save the Children charity estimates the total of dead children in Gaza in the 100 days from October to the end of January, that’s already six weeks out of date, at 10,000.

Whichever figures you believe, it seems reasonable to accept we are confronted by a lot of dead children and babies piling up in the few square miles of Gaza. There’s all manner of footage, again, much of it roundly dismissed as fake in some way of little corpses pooled from piles of rubble and wrapped in brightly coloured blankets for transport to God knows where. Maybe God does know.

Hopefully God cares as well, because evidently not enough of the right people do. Not enough to make it stop. Children are our future, we sing. So what about all those children with no futures at all?

Last month, Unicef estimated at least 17,000 Gazan children had been orphaned by that war, or at least separated from all family and therefore left alone. 17,000 stories of heartbreak and grief. In a separate report for Unicef, the plight of the children of Ukraine was laid bare.

Two years of chaos, destruction and loss, separation from families, disrupted schooling, disrupted health care, reports of a mental health crisis and a learning crisis. Many children have fled the chaos alone, exposing them to abuse of every kind. Human trafficking on an industrial scale. Children robbed of childhood. Scars visible and invisible. Human traffickers, child traffickers. Dark tales abound of more of the same harvesting a bumper crop of orphans in Gaza, too.

It seems to me that present evidence makes plain that far from irreplaceable treasures, too many children are treated as disposable.

Closer to home, we have altogether different damage to contemplate. All parents hear and share anecdotal evidence of harms caused to children during the Covid years.

In lockdown, the response to the neighbourly question ‘how are you all doing’ was met first with a cheery ‘fine’, time spent digging deeper, however, invariably revealed struggles, anxieties, real concerns about youngsters.

We must now conclude that as a society, we will be dealing with the poisonous consequences of lockdown for years to come, if not forever. A consensus on the number of so-called ghost children, those who fell off the radar of schools and social services during the Covid debacle and haven’t been heard of since is hard to come by, but tens of thousands is certain.

And the think tank Centre for Social Justice says 100,000. The CSJ tries to keep a spotlight on the poorest and most disadvantaged in society. And as early as 2021, they were warning: “Covid 19 has wreaked havoc in our schools. Young people’s life chances have been laid waste by successive school shutdowns and interruptions to the learning.

“The damage caused by lockdowns could not be clearer than in the case of school attendance. The pandemic has given rise to a generation of ghost children. If we’re not careful, we’re creating an Oliver Twist generation of children exposed to significant safeguarding hazards”.

Over the years here at GB News, I’ve spoken specifically about children. My primary motivation for speaking out at all in any context from the beginning three or four years ago was, as a parent, fearing for my own children, what lockdown and the rest of the madness would do to them.

How it would affect their futures by fundamentally altering the fabric of society. When it came to the product pushed as vaccines, my number one focus was on making sure no needle touched any of my children. And so from time to time on a Saturday night, I made children the focus of what I was talking about, including asking questions about harms caused to so many by the malignancy of the lockdown policies that kept families apart, closed schools, delayed learning to speak, compromised normal emotional and psychological development, delayed the learning of social skills left unknowable numbers isolated in dangerous domestic circumstances.

But the truth is that the viewing figures for those monologues, were always conspicuously lower than those on other subjects. Maybe when it comes to children, too many people just don’t want to know, just don’t want to think about it. But here we are in 2024 and our world made different.

All parents know that if their children were hooked on phones and the rest of the tech before lockdown, that time of enforced isolation only cranked up the addiction. We all hear the stories about spikes in the number of children self-harming with eating disorders, simply struggling with day to day life, referrals for children needing mental health treatment spiked along with the rest.

Last year, it was reported that one in five primary and secondary aged children are behind in their speech skills, their understanding of words. Charity Speech and Language UK said it was the highest number of children with speech and language challenges ever recorded. 80 per cent of teachers said children in their classrooms were lagging behind.

This is fundamental, condemning generations to underachievement, to isolation from society on account of not understanding, not being able to make themselves understood. During a recent parliamentary debate on excess deaths, Conservative MP Dr Caroline Johnson, a consultant paediatrician as well as an MP, reported that up to March 2023, there was an 8 per cent increase in child deaths compared to the year before.

She went on to say suicide and self-harm was the main cause of death for children between the ages of ten and 17 “getting much worse in the 10 to 14 age group”. Stop for a moment to take that in. Of course, the vast majority of MPs won’t discuss excess deaths full stop, staying away in droves from any debates on the subject.

Which brings me to the subject of accountability. We can see where we are now, surrounded by children struggling, falling behind, falling through cracks in the floorboards, dying in greater numbers than before, self-harming, killing themselves. All of this has happened on our watch.

In a time made utterly different by official policies, with which MPs of all stripes remained in lockstep, almost without exception, giving the full-throated support. Safe and effective, that, worst of all mantras was a death sentence for uncounted numbers.

Worst of all, it was never based on data of any sort, just baseless, preordained propaganda from the start. Save our NHS, three weeks to flatten the curve. No jab, no job, or yet more mantras, all of them contributing to the alternative reality in which we find ourselves with children bearing so much of the brunt.

Last week, the summertime catch up tsar tasked back in 2020 with helping repair the damage done to education, talked about the circumstances that saw him resign his post and walk away in disgust, describing how government at first promised commitment and then refused to foot the bill for the necessary measures.

Sir Kevin Collins said: “All these things we could have done to send a signal about childhood, but we did nothing. We gave up. It was pathetic”. We must have accountability from MPs, from doctors, from scientists, from the media, from all levels of the establishment. Because if those who set and train the policies that left us where we are remain in post, then we will have learned nothing, and even worse consequences will lie ahead.

All the time children were shut up at home, all the time we were told children are resilient, it was wine time Friday in Downing Street, a maskless free for all who had access to the data, plainly reassured those ruling our lives, restricting our lives that there was nothing at all to fear. We know where we are. Hardly any child can report a peer that died of Covid.

Plenty more have seen youngsters, often the fittest of the fit youngsters, dropping dead on the field of play for reasons that are never made plain, never discussed, like so many of us have certainly known family members, neighbours, parents of friends succumbing to unexpected heart attacks and strokes.

More of those who feature in the spiking figures of the excess deaths were not supposed to notice, far less mention. A generation of our youngest, at crucial times in their education knew they were let down by teachers, by university lecturers, let down by the authorities that closed the schools and the gyms and the rest of the venues making up the fabric of their lives, that they were pressured into accepting medical interventions even when they’d had Covid and so had natural immunity from an illness that posed them no meaningful threat anyway, so they could get into pubs and nightclubs.

They look on the adults, those who wielded power over them and find no reason to trust those so-called grownups ever again. It’s no exaggeration whatever to say that on the altar of save Granny, children’s well-being was knowingly sacrificed, and many of them know it. I remember seeing at the time that a society standing behind a shield made of its own children, that forces children to risk their lives by being injected with products that were demonstrably neither safe nor effective, and that, most important of all, they never needed, is no society at all.

Here’s the thing. Society sought to put children’s lives on hold, to shut them indoors, to sacrifice their education, to turn a blind eye to the hobbling of the natural development of the very youngest and most vulnerable.

I ask again, where are we as a society? Who are we as a species if we don’t put children first at all times as parents? Our gut reaction should be to nurture and care. So why do we so often look the other way, while so much is inflicted on the innocent by those guilty of putting profit and ideology before the wellbeing of our youngest?

{Transcript End}

Life as a “grey man” looks like this….

….. But, we are on the right side of history.

I appreciate your fellowship!

How We Know A Political Correction is Coming


Posted originally on Rumble By Charlie Kirk show on: Mar 15, 2024 at 4:00 pm EST

Rumble to Build Cloud Service to Fight Censorship


Posted originally on Mar 14, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Censored

The video-sharing platform Rumble is set to launch a new cloud service, which they deem a service for the “free and open internet.” Global governments are increasingly cracking down on what videos may or may not be viewed by the public. Censorship is a major problem in every nation as our access to information becomes increasingly limited.

YouTube was the first major streaming platform to go bust. They immediately caved to pressures from the government and implemented an entire team dedicated to removing videos deemed offensive. Worse, they interfered in the last US election by adhering to Biden’s commands to remove any “disinformation” regarding Hunter, COVID, and any other relevant topic that did not fit the narrative.

The company was inspired to create an alternative after Amazon Web Services (AWS) removed Parler, a conservative media network, from its platform. That was part of the government’s plot to remove any “disinformation,” which in actuality is information they do not want the public to know, regarding the events on January 6.

Some may recall that Rumble offered Joe Rogan a place for his podcast after he was de-platformed. YouTube permanently removed all of Rogan’s interviews because he was questioning the truth. Spotify gave Rogan a platform which led to backlash from various artists who threatened to pull their music from Spotify (most retracted their threats).

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“When we saw that happen, we took it upon ourselves to make sure that could never happen to a platform like Rumble,” CEO Chris Pavlovski said. “After that moment, we realized that it was very important for us to … start owning our infrastructure, and start owning our own servers.” Pavloski said they recognized the crackdown as an “existential threat” to their business and believe it is a large part of America wants something that inherits the same kind of values that they have.”

“The idea is we’re not going to cancel someone based on any political bias whatsoever. Whether they’re a religious university, or whether they’re not, we’re not going to discriminate against any customer based on political pressure or political biases, etc. That’s what I see the Parler situation had. It was due to political pressure and biases at the time,” he said.

I have personally had better luck with Rumble, but I hear from readers in other countries that their governments have prohibited Rumble entirely. Robert F. Kennedy’s team supports Rumble Cloud, citing that it is a good beginning to avoid partisan censorship. Rumble’s core base is not conservative, as 35% identify as Democrats, 29% as independents, and only 22% as Republicans.

There will be a fee, and while I do not know their payment strategy, free journalism will often come at a price. That is why I place the most sensitive information behind the paywall of the Socrates private blog to prevent censorship. It does not turn a profit but the fee is necessary to bypass the forces who would love to silence me.

We will see how this pans out for Rumble and other media-sharing platforms going forward. The demand, and more importantly, the need, is certainly present.