In the agorist spirit, strategies to promote freedom need to make their communications as much as possible independent of the large corporate social media, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This is because these companies get in bed with government. This creates both bias and censorship. A recent censorship event occurred in North Dakota surrounding a sit-in.

This is way beyond my technical expertise, but what I’m suggesting is that computer-savvy freedom entrepreneurs need their own social networks and they need to be hardened to defend against government-led invasions to shut them down. This may be difficult given that the government regulates the fiber optic cables; but there are probably ways to accomplish this.** What seems clear is that reliance upon the services of the large companies should not be automatically assumed. The government can and will shut down communications under certain conditions. In the same vein, it is difficult to gain a lot of traction in counter-economic activities without some forms of currency that are independent of government money. There need to be private payments systems. The government can intercede in the payments system and use it as a tool to quash activities it deems inimical to itself.

**I’m now informed of a 5-year old initiative called Freedom Box that addresses this.**

The government has been smart enough in securing its power to control vital circulatory processes of the national “social body”, like communications, transportation, electricity, food, water and money. We take many things for granted that the government can cut into when it wants to in order to control dissent and void efforts at free market independence, local, regional and national. The government can void anti-state and anti-war activities in ways that are much more sophisticated today than shooting students at Kent State, even as it retains that option and has augmented it with militarized police forces, lockdowns, martial laws and emergency procedures that it can invoke.

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