Our Illusory Reality

I recently saw an interesting post on Reddit which talks about the "dead internet theory", which they describe as an internet controlled by corporations and bots, an internet where real human voices are increasingly hard to find. I've known this to be true for some time but the full extent of it didn't really hit me until I started to think about how many bots there are in comments these days and how the internet is so controlled by corporations.

Websites like ATS where we can have long meaningful conversations are becoming a rarity. The internet use to be a place where the average person could share their opinion, but a slow and insidious increase in censorship has largely removed that ability. We are now at a point where certain topics like the lab leak theory or the Hunter laptop are forbidden topics on social media, or at least they were forbidden by the "fact checkers" until the real facts were revealed and then suddenly we are allowed to discuss those things again.

Here's a screenshot I took not long before YouTube decided to hide dislikes. I used this image in a thread I wrote at the time about Covid, not realizing dislikes would soon be hidden. If I had known I probably would have saved a lot more screenshots because almost every single MSM video about Covid were massively disliked. People were making their opinion known, and we can't have that can we? Wouldn't want to break the illusion created by the MSM, wouldn't want the "crazy" people thinking they were a majority.



My distrust in "medical experts" really began many years ago when I started researching the topic of water fluoridation. I could never understand why "experts" would insist we should be ingesting fluoride even though they know it's toxic. Maybe a century ago when toothpaste was less common it might have made some modicum of sense, but to carry on such a barbaric practice in first world nations is pure lunacy. I personally use fluoridated toothpaste, but I don't want to drink fluoride, even in microscopic amounts.

Water is basically the only thing I drink, and it seems obvious that small risks can accumulate over time. Then there's the "think about the poor people who can't afford toothpaste" argument. So entire populations have to be subjected to a non-consensual health procedure because it provides some debatable benefit to a very small fraction of the population... where have I heard that before? It would cost a lot less to just buy toothpaste for the needy rather than elaborate fluoridation programs, but then corps couldn't sell us their toxic waste.

I've seen a disturbing amount of news anchors, sports people, actors, pass out right in front of the camera. A comedian passed out while joking about how much she loves vaccines. Think back to when the vaccine first came out, even then we had viral videos like the nurse passing out at a conference on the vaccine. A person passing out on live TV was once rare, now it's a weekly occurrence. We can see past the MSM illusion by trusting our own experiences... how much harm have you seen the vaccine do compared to Covid itself?

I'm not sure it was all the dislikes on vaccine videos that got the button removed- IIR a video of Biden speaking got over a million dislikes a few hours after posting and then the button suddenly vanished.
I think the buttons were a useful tool to measure public sentiment, but once the intense dislike of the POTUS became apparent in real time numbers, they had to put a stop to it and concentrate their efforts on damage/crowd control.

Another thing I want to point out with respect to the latest developments on the Hunter subject is how they so easily labeled it Russian propaganda in order to influence the outcome of the election. Notice how Hunter was basically in hiding right up until Biden won, then the whole family including Hunter came out on stage to celebrate. At that moment I knew we were so screwed. That was their way of saying they were now untouchable. Biden knew he could simply pardon his son for any past crimes, and he still can.

a reply to: nugget1

Yes I saw the dislikes on those videos, wish I got some screenshots. It was obviously a combination of many things which caused them to hide dislikes, but I feel safe assuming vaccine and also White House videos were two of the primary reasons. They ability to hide both likes and dislikes has existed a long time, so they could have easily added an option for creators to hide only dislikes if the goal was to protect creators. Plus virtually all YouTubers agreed it was a bad idea but YouTube clearly doesn't care.

a reply to: ChaoticOrder

I fully distrust the Medical System.

Failure of transparency, posted pricing, blatant price gouging by American Medicine and Pharmaceutical companies. The incestuous relationship between Government regulatory authorities and Pharmaceutical executives, the whole damn system is a protected price gouging scam.

It's just a natural extension of something that's been happening for a while.

When "news" organizations started putting articles online, there was a provision that allowed commentary on the content. Eventually, there was too much backlash. People could read the story, read the comments, and see for themselves that the articles were BS, lies, and propaganda. The media couldn't push a narrative if that narrative could be destroyed in minutes. If they were to continue pushing lies, they had to make sure that exposing those lies couldn't be so easy.

The truth can withstand scrutiny, lies can't.

That's why I simply assume anything from the American media is a lie, unless I have reason to believe otherwise. Whether it's vaccines, Ukraine, politics, crime, racism, whatever. If the media says it's true, I assume it's a lie and go from there. Especially when dissenting opinions are marginalized and attacked.

a reply to: ChaoticOrder
Bots on forums like reddit are the tip of the iceborg
There is also a newish but rapidly growing industry of A.I. "journalism"-so called news stories for human consumption which are made by A.I. algorthims from available data.Already big companies such as Bloomberg are using this technology.

When people talk about robots talking our jobs-its not just the manual work we may first think of,with machines taking over from humans.
It is in all forms of work,including news media,call centers,the arts,writng,and many more.

The question is-who programs the parameters of the A.I.s,and what agenda do they have?

Us Humans have never fully understood the nature of reality,and with A.I.s beginning to influence our perception of reality-maybe we never will IMO.

a reply to: ChaoticOrder

The internet use to be a place where the average person could share their opinion, but a slow and insidious increase in censorship has largely removed that ability

Don't blame censorship. The average person is a bot himself/herself because he/she gave up critical thinking, and because he/she prefers flesh and blood. And porn. And conspiracies. This is the civilization of the illiterate, hence the internet is the internet of the illiterate. Nothing to do with corporations or pesky govt officers in dark rooms.

a reply to: ChaoticOrder

The legitimacy of our reality is based entirely on how many facets of our life that we personally control.

The fact is that when you relinquish control of facets of your life, that reality ceases to be yours and falls entirely under the control of whom ever you gave it to.

I do not do social media. ATS is the only exception to that, and even then at 3000 posts for 10+ years, not exactly psychotic addiction.

I do not do MSM. The only exceptions being to understand what the next reality is they're going to program people with. I do do numerous independent media sites for a broader range of alternative facts, lol.

I do not do medical experts. I am not a pill popper but I also don't self diagnose. The only reason, at my age and health profile, that I go to the doctor is to get access to drugs that I know I need to get over whatever I've got, not to get advice.

I could go on, but I'm sure you get the point.

i watched that fluoride movie on amazon and was horrified. I have well water and my pediatrician kept pushing me to give my baby fluoride drops and i refused. so glad i have well water and my kangen water filter. I guess the powers that be just want us to be sick and unhealthy.

In that "War Crimes Being Committed By Ukraine" thread on here read the first few pages looking for "war is hell". There's definitely bots on here.

The removing dislikes function on YouTube has been in response to an illegitimate US president and COVID. CEO of YouTube also of Zionist descent. Any time a powerful person makes such a big move, just look at their bloodlines for additional confirmation of nefarious intent. It's very, very often from the same group of people.

It seems that the sites I frequent, there are 3-4 posters that make it their sworn duty to make sure left talking points are defended.
And they go to great lengths In their defensive almost as it's a job they are being paid for.

Can you imagine Democrats offer money to people to sit home and defend the left?

And the majority of the people are all on the same page. I always hear, this place turned into a right wing echo chamber.

It's the Democrats driving people to the right.
As there is something very off with this Democrat party. Something very off