What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
Wikileaks was a good example of this (it's still online, just inactive); Social Control Media is a stepping stone towards top-down control via centralised hubs sponsored for and by oligarchs (censorship, throttling, trend-setting etc.)
Moments ago: Go independent
In the coming years we'll tell over a thousand stories, including stories about how online thugs (trolls is way too gentle a term) were bullying my webhost for over a year! We'll also illuminate why I escalated the matter to the police, the British authorities, and some of the nation's top NGOs, lawyers, and barristers.
Freedom of speech (and that's an extension of freedom of the press) is under attack. That attack is happening not only in America, even if in our case it's always Americans trying to game the British system to censor us (it's never Brits doing it, it's always Americans!).
So far they've had no success in removing even a single article. None. No matter what they tried and how hard they tried. A year and a half ago my wife said, "The Truth is About to Prevail" and this has aged very well.
At this point, by most indications (measurable indicators), the censor "got tired of whining". They've spent (we estimate) about 400,000 pounds (more than half a million dollars or about 200 dollars per page sent to us) on lawyers and even asked for help to fund this. Not only has it not worked for them; it is backfiring. In official papers they disclose it may cost another half a million pounds to pursue further, per case, so we're looking at about 1.2-1.5 million dollars spent just trying to silence us, in vain.
But it's not about money; even all the money in the world cannot undo or change facts. It can unload large loads of papers with insults and worse. That, in due course, backfires. Because courts notice one side spending vastly more than the other; that just doesn't seem right, aside from all the overt misogyny.
Independent news sites or comedians or whatever will learn the hard way that unless they control their own platform/s, they're not really in control. If the Cheeto decided to use Twitter a lot (instead of "Truth" "Social"), what would happen to his account amid fallout with MElon, who openly accused him of being connected to pedophilia through Jeffrey Epstein?
The net (sans DNS and ISPs) was built to be made mostly decentralised, disjoint in the hosting sense. If you don't control your domain and your hosting, someone else does.
Kimmel would be wise to make his own independent site where all his watchers can watch his skits and he would not have to self-censor (SLAPPs notwithstanding, but he can afford decent lawyers). No Social Control Media, no "Substack" or Typepad or any of that other stuff. Typepad is shutting down one week from now. That seems to have doomed the patent maximalists at patentdocs.org. They've not blogged for nearly 4 weeks. They foolishly relied on Typepad. Many of their core files, including the CSS, are strongly linked to a site that goes offline soon. That's the kind of problem we'll never have, more so with the new site. Tomorrow that site turns two. We'll write about that soon. █