I have had a comfortable existence on Facebook, the king of the social media platforms so far for a dozen years or so. But like all things, it has gone past the peak for me and the attraction is ebbing. More importantly, I am outraged at how Facebook actively censors public opinion to push the Covid agenda and fear mongering on one side, push unwanted and hated commercials down our throat, and how it bans public officials, including the president of the US, because they do not confirm to their own political agenda.

Facebook has become the face of the denigration of US institutions – free speech being one of them.

I understand how this works for Zuckerberg. With 2.7 billion users, he has monopoly and near absolute power. He has reportedly used computer based artificial intelligence tools to keep people more or less addicted to this platform. And like all addicts, they will stick to their provider of drugs even when they know they are being manipulated.

In other words, Facebook abuses its power to control and shape public opinion. When it comes to covid, it makes sure everybody is scared out of their wits about it, and falling over backward to take whatever tools are doled out by the system. This is in line with most government versions, as many believe, the governments themselves are in the pocket of the New World Order Deep state, and Facebook, along with other big techs like google, apple, amazon – are part of that Deep State.

No, this is no more a conspiracy theory. When conspiracy becomes a fact, then it is no more a theory.

Anyhow, to come back to my original thoughts, I decided getting away from Facebook, just to deny Zuckerberg my own existence to make money on and control. This was easier said that done though.

There were many issues involved with Facebook, even among my own social media circle. For a start, I had nearly 5,000 friends and around 2,000 followers, or some seven thousand people in contact. I would have to leave all of them once I left Facebook. Did I owe them an explanation, or have a dialog to discuss my decision? Well, I thought I would give them a chance to find me elsewhere and either follow me or not, they could then decide.

I have been involved in different ways, protesting the covid narrative and the extreme lockdown and psychological terror being reigned upon the people on earth, keeping them terrified about an invisible virus. Eventually, my friends circle divided into two groups. The earlier contacts – mostly from folks I personally knew and met in the past, by and large felll into the group that are afraid of covid, and falling over each other in wearing a mask and waiting for a vaccine etc. I felt myself more and more out of place there, since my common sense, scientific curiosity and unwillingness to take official verdicts without question, made me a pariah among my original friends. Clearly, I belonged to a different wave length. Subsequently, my contact with the old guard faded, and I made a lots of new friends that knew of me through my activism, my protests, my letters and meetings with elected officials, from my posts, blogs, videos and through my world view. Although they were new, they understood me better and I could align myself with them since we both shared an important common ground – we applied common sense on whatever we saw and heard. We were unwilling to accept what politicians, the TV and Big Tech, or Big Pharma were saying at face value.

I also came from a background of long term activism and doing much of what I did single handedly rather than with a crowd. I was for example, very keen to refocus attention on the lowest rung of our governments, the municipal government – on tax revolt. Idea was simple and did not touch the controversial issue of if covid is real or not. My proposal was, since the economy was reeling due to covid restrictions, everybody was feeling the pinch and tightening the belt. So should the municipality. But property tax was going high instead of being reduced proportionate to the fall in economic activity.

I thought most folks will go along with that. And once we gather strength, one could ask if members are happy to also demand that the municipality either provides its own proof, or demands proof from provincial or federal governments that the selective lockdowns of “non-essentials” do actually stop spread of a virus and that we are actually, in the middle of a genuine life threatening pandemic and not just sponsored fear mongering.

All that was actual boots-on-the-ground activism that I liked, instead of sitting on the virtual media fence and pontificating like a bunch of armchair activists. At first, there was some interest and common ground. We even took pictures and had a preliminary meeting. But it did not go beyond that. The effort was first sabotaged by the Unifythepeople group, and then the rest sort of started splintering on other issues and the whole protest scene started looking more like controlled opposition to me.

This has happened to me in the past often enough during my glyphosate and GMO protesting days, and I knew what controlled opposition meant.

So, combining the facts that

• Facebook was abusing its power and protest groups within it were, knowingly or unknowingly, Controlled Opposition,
• There was a need to go outside of Facebook to be free of censorship and manipulation.
• There was also a need to go to more direct activism
• There was a dire need to brainstorm and think through strategies
• We face a global problem that needed protest groups to find a way to join hands instead of remain as isolated rabbit holes.

I thought of creating a new group outside of Facebook but inside of virtual social media, to attract like minded people, a small group, to essentially brainstorm and look for solutions and paths towards things to do on the ground.

Same time, I also had moved from YouTube to BitChute and closed my WhatsApp account, and reduced my footprint on Facebook and twitter. My online behaviour was undergoing a fundamental change.

Has that effort worked?

Well, not exactly, but a start has been made.