What’s coming is like nothing you’ve seen before.

Americans who have never lived overseas, been through revolutions, wars, or coups simply cannot imagine.

The world is always on the brink of evil and evil does exist. It can manifest here too.

In the past few years, tactics have been slowly tested and normalized.

One is the human moderation of trend lists and the rise of algortyhms and AI to selectively show what people see.

5 years ago I was told this was a myth, that trends were never touched by humans. Now we know

Then they tested shadowbanning and view suppression.

Again, we were told this was a myth and conspiracy.

Today it’s openly discussed as part of business.

It was normalized.

They tested deplatforming with Alex Jones, an obvious target that nearly everyone could be convinced was banworthy and unpersonable.

In the past year, it’s not even questioned by mainstream media when much milder personalities are deplatformed.

Then they tested their new tool with monetization. Payment providers discovered that they could normalize this too.

Starting with concepts like “gun vendors” and now...

...targettting people and their families on a personal level (see Gab’s founder).

Then they went after the major independent news and blog sites.

First they fact checked them. When that became normal, they moved to complete delisting in search and then outright bans from social media.

This too, was normalized.

Then they went after video channels, testing their censorship on the obvious targets people might agree with banning.

Now, as of the past couple of days, they are demonetizing huge swaths of the YouTube commenter genre.

This is happening today.

Today, no reasons are given for bans or suspensions. There is no appeal, no accountability.

It started small, with test cases, and expanded as they discovered people were unable to mount an effective defensive.

The reasons are secret. And it’s getting worse.

Every tweet I make I am careful. I’ve never spent so much time finding roundabout ways or euphemisms to critique power.

The media isn’t speaking truth to power. They are all the same, with the same talking points. The ones allowed to be promulgated.

Things are happening on an uprecendemted global scale.

The frog has been boiling for five years.

It was a huge mistake for this administration to ignore the global lockdown on free speech and communication.

It will cost them.

This isn’t a left VS right issue. It’s not a culture war issue.

The culture war is a pretense, a distraction.

This is about power.