Recently, I received an email from Anita Moorjani, someone who has been an inspiration to me from the NDE crowd. I had an NDE, but I didn’t leave this world. Instead, I got connected to something larger than myself while here on earth. You can read more about that experience in my book. Warning: this was my first self-published book, right after my cerebral hemorrhage in 2018. It contains some grammatical errors.
Anita’s article “Before This Gets Hard” is a story about the challenges of promoting her healing events using closed platforms. Currently, there are a lot of mechanisms that are acting as censorship for many people to get their messages out.
One important part I wanted to point out is that she attributes these closed platforms to the open internet. I’m assuming she means: Facebook (Meta), and X (Twitter). I’d throw YouTube (Google) and Substack into that mix as well, where comments are dropped or censored based on the political will of the gatekeepers.
I want people to know that these closed platforms do not represent the open internet. They have always been a commercial product that was designed on top of it.
With the current request from the Stop Killing Games (SKG) movement, “The Open Web Is Being Locked Down — And Games Will Die With It!”, I must correct this record.
The open web is not being locked down. These commercial applications are being locked down. That’s where the establishments, which are acting against the people they serve, are choosing to apply pressure.
If we want to really have an open internet, we need to support systems and applications that are not for-profit. There will always be for-profit incentives to push agendas that run counter to freedom.
Visit the IndieWeb Services section to learn how to set up your own blog and use open syndication to keep people informed. In the coming months, censorship will continue to get worse. It is imperative that people find ways to stop using these commercial entities. Instead, set up something where the content is largely in your control.
Using mainstream platforms to get your message out is going to be increasingly targeted by authoritarians as we slide further and further into fascism.