How to maximize your Internet security
This is not about firewalls, or staying away from Windows. I posted it in 'Out of Focus' because although it has technical suggestions those suggestions are based on a personal desire to remain politically free, so if you don't want to read or see this post then click away now. Otherwise, scroll down.
It is about how to avoid apps by Google, Facebook and Twitter, global corporations who are doing their best to track you and bring 1984 to reality.
I completely cut my Google ties a year ago. I run Vivaldi with adblock. I have FireFox but rarely use it because it, too, has joined the march to 1984. I have a protonmail account but besides the limits mentioned by Black Pidgeon, I am not aware of a way to offload your emails to your local HD. I don't visit Gab, and rarely visit Minds, Vid.Me or other such sites. I've just discovered DTube, which is interesting, but it content is sparse, as it is on Vid.Me, Vimeo and other alternate video sites. Gab.io promotes free speech on the basis and intent of the 1st Amendment. Comments that threaten the life of the President or others, etc., are not permitted. The big problem with Gab is that it has become infested with Trolls, most of which include posts by Nazis, White Supremacists, Flat Earthers, etc... It's disgusting, but in a free society that's part of the baggage. One can always mute them. The problem on Gab, which is the same on just about every other Internet comment section, is that it soon devolves into personal attacks and evoking Hitler or Duke. One can no longer have a civil discussion any more.
The situation is made worse on the popular social websites by the corporate owners censoring views which differ from their own, so the playing field is slanted significantly to favor the Marxists. So conservatives who hate Nazis, White Supremists and violence are band, but AntiFa, the source of 99.9% of all political violence in the last 18 months gets a free pass.
If totalitarian control in the US ends up where it usually does in other dictatorships the next thing you will want to try to avoid will be Reeducation classes (or camps) as they are euphemistically called. As you read the following experience by a Columbia University graduate, who wrote about his experience AFTER he graduated, consider this: Jews in German concentration camps were processed by other Jews. Even though they knew what was going to happen, their hope was that somehow they would avoid the gas chambers because they helped the Nazis. They didn't. Notice how each increasingly higher authority the student met plead sympathy with his situation but they all claimed their hands were tied. They were either lying or they are cowards. Also note that in the Rule of Law under the Constitution you have a RIGHT to face your accusers, but not in totalitarian societies. They cannot hide in anonymity while they hurl charges of mis-conduct against you, secure in the fact that as part of one of the seven protected classes they will never be charged with false accusations or outright lying.
http://thetab.com/us/columbia/2016/1...-in-class-2611
It is about how to avoid apps by Google, Facebook and Twitter, global corporations who are doing their best to track you and bring 1984 to reality.
I completely cut my Google ties a year ago. I run Vivaldi with adblock. I have FireFox but rarely use it because it, too, has joined the march to 1984. I have a protonmail account but besides the limits mentioned by Black Pidgeon, I am not aware of a way to offload your emails to your local HD. I don't visit Gab, and rarely visit Minds, Vid.Me or other such sites. I've just discovered DTube, which is interesting, but it content is sparse, as it is on Vid.Me, Vimeo and other alternate video sites. Gab.io promotes free speech on the basis and intent of the 1st Amendment. Comments that threaten the life of the President or others, etc., are not permitted. The big problem with Gab is that it has become infested with Trolls, most of which include posts by Nazis, White Supremacists, Flat Earthers, etc... It's disgusting, but in a free society that's part of the baggage. One can always mute them. The problem on Gab, which is the same on just about every other Internet comment section, is that it soon devolves into personal attacks and evoking Hitler or Duke. One can no longer have a civil discussion any more.
The situation is made worse on the popular social websites by the corporate owners censoring views which differ from their own, so the playing field is slanted significantly to favor the Marxists. So conservatives who hate Nazis, White Supremists and violence are band, but AntiFa, the source of 99.9% of all political violence in the last 18 months gets a free pass.
If totalitarian control in the US ends up where it usually does in other dictatorships the next thing you will want to try to avoid will be Reeducation classes (or camps) as they are euphemistically called. As you read the following experience by a Columbia University graduate, who wrote about his experience AFTER he graduated, consider this: Jews in German concentration camps were processed by other Jews. Even though they knew what was going to happen, their hope was that somehow they would avoid the gas chambers because they helped the Nazis. They didn't. Notice how each increasingly higher authority the student met plead sympathy with his situation but they all claimed their hands were tied. They were either lying or they are cowards. Also note that in the Rule of Law under the Constitution you have a RIGHT to face your accusers, but not in totalitarian societies. They cannot hide in anonymity while they hurl charges of mis-conduct against you, secure in the fact that as part of one of the seven protected classes they will never be charged with false accusations or outright lying.
http://thetab.com/us/columbia/2016/1...-in-class-2611
So, now I have 3 P2P projects to explore and evaluate, but YaCy looks good on its own.
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