Notes on Our Digital Gulag

Sayonara Twitter and Elon Machina V.4.17

Elon! Elon! He’s our fren. If he can’t save us, no one can!

— Chant of the Conternative Normie Brigades of Pillow Discounters (2022)

By now the National Enquirer has hit your local inbox newsstand with the hottest tales about Twitter declaring war on Substack.

The basic facts:

  • Three days ago I noticed that Tweets could no longer be embedded into a new post here without getting a popup message that should have read Error: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Forbids This Action
  • I was going to do a post about it but kept to my Year Zoo resolution of not rushing to “be first” on the latest hot gossip until at least a few facts trickled out
  • The day before Twitter blocked access to their API for Substack, the latter had announced the (Private Beta) launch of their Twitter copy called NOTES. Elon Machina V.4.17 didn’t like that. (more on notes at the end)
  • Then yesterday he erased Substack from Twitter. Well, not entirely, but you can’t retweet Substack posts and when Substack was trending on Twitter at #3 it magically disappeared.
  • Steve Kirsch and Jordan Schachtel who have hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers had their Tweets mentioning Substack get throttled to Turtle speeds, or shadowbanned.

How does the censorship sauce still work behind the scenes at centralized controlled Twitter HQ still filled with former CIA spooks and FBI agents?

1. Shadow Banning: Any mentions of the words Sub or Stack will trigger automated suppression. Autofill is also disabled and Substack’s official Twitter profile is also semi-dark. Any criticism for Our Fren Elon and his heavy-handed anti-trust violating deep state whoring ways, cannot be liked or retweeted. Substack properly raked this buffoon yesterday, but you aren’t permitted to like it.

2. Any posts will appear dark. Nobody can retweet or like any Substack posts shared on Twitter. Whether it’s an article on cooking Crème brûlée with organic gluten-free goat’s milk or drafting your team for the next Lesbian Lingerie Fantasy Football Season in Vanuatu, nothing can be publicized.

Some of us around here warned others about Elon Machina V.4.17 last MarchJune, and December. If only Bari Weiss, Michael Schellenberger, and Matt Taibbi did some due diligence on who was inviting them into the hornet’s nest, maybe they wouldn’t look so silly this week.

Not that they ever gave a damn. They all made out like bandits on here from their peep show invitations.

As I wrote in The Swatter Flies late last year, outside of internal emails, nothing they revealed hadn’t already been disclosed by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai in 2021—a full year before the limited hangout called “The Twitter Files.”

The following is one Good Citizen theory about what’s unfolding now in greater detail, and yes some of this is gossip and speculation, and some of it is just common sense. Not Bari Weiss’ readers’ type of common sense, but actual common sense.


Herding and Controlling Minds

Twitter and all the Big Tech fascist state colluders have always practiced Surveillance Capitalism tactics. That old saying “If it’s free you are the product” was just a normie slogan for marketing mid-wits who missed the big picture because it was always this: If it’s free, you are the target.

The CIA and FBI (and MI6 and 5-eyes) have been embedded inside them for a decade feeding their servers directly to the NSA (and 5-Eyes partners) so that every user is politically and psychologically profiled and their entire digital history recorded and saved to be used against them when their social credit system is unveiled.

The Uniparty will claim that TikTok is a threat to American citizens’ privacy with one breath while laughing about their Silicon Valley Pravda partnerships for total surveillance with the next. They don’t care about your privacy or mine and they never have. They’re paid a lot of money to perform congressional “hearings” that serve as laughable PR stunts to get their constituents to believe something will be done to stop the surveillance, censorship, blacklisting, tracking, and banning.

Nothing will stop it.

These platforms have been hijacked and are used as algorithmic herding machines. The bias of their algorithms creates a world of informationally and psychologically deceived humans, atomized to their own digital pseudo-reality completely unaware of the schemes behind the techno-curtain responsible for manipulating and marooning them to an island of misinformation for a lifetime of ignorance.

Mao, Stalin, and Goebbels could only have dreamed of having access to these platforms and their manipulative technological capabilities. They have cloaked propaganda distribution and consumption in a digital facade of social gamification and every idiot on the planet always wants to upgrade to the latest version of self-brainwashing.

The Past Year

Elon buys Twitter, with help from other investors. He does a limited peep show about the past censorship regime so people believe things will actually change. The red-blue divide gets nastier and the “left” whines about Elon and the “right” laughs at the whiney libtards. Nice distraction and con game.

Meanwhile, all the shadowbanning and de-throttling are still ongoing. There are still at least a dozen former FBI agents working at Twitter HQ and who knows how many more spooks. All data is still being siphoned up by NSA servers in the Utah desert. The centralized nature of the network means that there will never be “free speech” or open access to information. The entire platform is controlled, an illusion for perception management.

Every user is a sheep being herded in one direction or another, some of them paying $7 per month to have that stupid blue check next to their name while they are psycho-socially engineered for temporary dopamine rewards.

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