Internet Censorship–Brother, can you spare a mimeo machine?

(Via SurvivalBlog)

As you may guess, I”m catching up on reading some of my blogroll. Rawles, it seems, has been on something of a roll of late. Then again, there’s always a fair bit of interesting stuff on his blog.

I want to bring this piece of original content to your attention, where he writes about Internet censorship. You’ve read me bitching about Google, with who I have a grumble/hate relationship. Rawles goes considerably further in “The Internet Gulag: Demonetization, Demonization, and Deletion”, covering a number of disturbing trends that have been going on for some time now–the demonitization of blogs and YouTube channels, the ongoing demonization of anyone who dares contradict Leftist orthodoxy and the outright deletion of content that offends the liberal and self-appointed keepers of the Intertubz.

The important information he provides is, in essence a call to be ready to respond to their overreach with a modern samizdat. I know I’ve brought this up, maybe here, definitely in other places, by urging people to rebuild the old FidoNet BBS system. While it’s still around, it’s nothing like it’s old self, and it would be a great thing for it to begin rebuilding. There is also amateur packet radio, which is also still around but also not as big as it once was. These alternatives to the big, corporate-controlled avenues of communication could be vital alternatives if things go sideways.

Something more to think about as we wait for whatever it is slinking toward us.

Edit, 7/24/2018: Change to the title to make it flow better and sound more familiar.