Parlor / Gab / Minds "created their own Facebook" competitor. That couldn't be tolerated by those who must censor and control the passes: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Google.
Facebook and Twitter are having all competitors blocked, so everyone is trapped on their MSNBC-skewed Facebook / Twitter.
It's obvious these sorts of programs are still ongoing. Probably all that really came out of the Congressional inquiries in the 1970s was the development of better methods to keep them hidden from the public.
We only know about COINTELPRO because some mysterious group of activists stole a bunch of the records from an FBI field office in Pennsylvania!
They were all retired IIRC & they waited until the statute of limitations for those crimes had passed before revealing themselves. So it would have been difficult for the government to meaningfully retaliate without making significant changes to the legal system & it's not exactly an episode that the government wanted to draw attention to.
I suppose they could have gone for extra-legal methods, but after so much time the people with the motivation to make that happen (if it was possible at all) would have mostly retired too.
REVOLUTION is the very real possibility if/when "negative interest rates" or "stealing citizens money" starts.
Citizens had all trust DESTROYED by the economic elites in 2008. A massive number of Wall Street and finance companies showed how corrupt and how much damage they cause real citizens. Trust is GONE.
Citizens will view that their money is being stolen. All of this is about draining more money from workers and transferring it to companies and the wealthiest 1%. Slavery is when the powerful financially steal workers earned money, against their permission, in an unjust way. In a way that is a system of theft is from poor workers over to the wealthy.
That leads to revolt. Every time "negative interest" goes through your brain, force yourself to replace it with "stealing that causes revolt". It gives you a chance to wake up to see how workers will view it.
Gold was a collectors item also, and that was the fuel behind it being a currency for a thousand years.
Here is where switching from silver to meaningless metal in Roman currency was one of the big reasons for Rome's collapse. A currency backed up by something with "money printing disabled" is key to a currency not turning devalued over time.
Note that citizens can now pick individually and separately if they want to be Keynesian (USD) or Austrian (BTC/ETH/Gold).
1. This is illustrated by a 50 year old who paid off their $500k house. They sell, keep the cash for 23 months until they move across the country to buy a new house.
2. They could store their $500k in USD w/money printing and be a Keynesian. Money printing dilutes and they can buy less.
3. Another similar couple stores their $500k in BTC or cryptGOLD, as a non-money printing Austrian.
Imagine if each person in society is picking individually if they want to be an Austrian or Keynesian based on the currency they select. Costs of USD money printing will be paid by a smaller and smaller group of people as more and more move off of USD.
Both Bitcoin and gold have experienced devaluation. This illustration seems to be analogous to the physics spherical cow - there are other factors that determine the value of gold, BTC, and dollars besides supply.
For example, if the 50 year old bought all their Bitcoin in January 2018, and sold them to buy their new house in January 2020, they would have been very, very disappointed.
ISP market is rigged. Free market competition would make citizens never interested in this, unless it was rigged. If Google w/Google Fiber can't enter markets, then nobody can. Customers are locked into contracts for no good reason, except breaking competition. Good prices only go to first time customers, in order to rent seek and rig prices as customers stay.
Apple is a crony capitalist company looking to collect rents from other people's work. We need to aggressively call out Apple for being a crony capitalist company rigging the economy.
Crony capitalist companies break competition to rig the economy. That is what Apple is doing by working to collect rents from other people's work.
That’s rich. One might argue that the guy arguing the government should force Apple to let him sell his service through the platform Apple invented, built and operates is the crony capitalist.
