The most important modern technology that will help us bring about a voluntary society is already flourishing: the internet. Many people described it as revolutionary when the internet forever changed the way we communicate, shop, navigate, and research – and it was – but that was just the beginning! The internet is still in its infancy and rapidly evolving. Society is just starting to feel its effects. Governments understand the threat of the internet and have made various attempts to control it. Some large governments have already gone to great lengths to curb its impact, but this is a losing battle. However, we must remain vigilant to any attempts to stifle the free flow of information to ensure this most powerful tool can be fully utilized as a force for positive change.
Simply as a tool to increase productivity, the internet is an unstoppable force. Those of us with unfettered access take for granted how having such a wealth of information readily available makes life easier and more efficient in so many ways. Thanks to smart phones connected to the internet, even our conversations have become more effective as we don’t have to “debate facts” any more. Comparison shopping has reduced profit margins and made the market far more competitive. When someone figures out the solution to a problem, it can be shared around the world nearly instantaneously.
The global connectedness created by the internet is already making it more difficult to exploit us. Wars are always based on lies, and while governments still can and do lie, this is much more difficult. In government indoctrination centers known as public schools, kids with smart phones can directly challenge their instructors. Most children with internet access already know they can learn far more from turning to the internet instead of government.
The internet is causing the collapse of nationalism. Governments took advantage of the tendency for local pride and convinced their people that their country was the best at everything and governments were the reason. Governments never let the facts get in the way of a good story, but the internet has a way of inserting undeniable facts into the conversation that temper national pride. The fact that everyone with a smart phone can record and fact check the lies of politicians, then share their findings with the world, has already made governing much more difficult. It used to be very easy to lie and get away with it, but not in the age of the internet!
Governments have relied on their control of the media to control the conversation. This includes everything from keeping facts away from us to distorting irrepressible stories. In the age of the internet, control of the conversation has been decentralized. Anyone with a story to tell or facts to share can get online and challenge the official narrative. In order to maximize the benefit of the internet, it is important to support independent media. Centralized control of the conversation is also being rapidly eroded by the phenomenon of sharing through social networks. No longer does a central authority decide what information is important. This is not just a new sharing of values and perspectives, but a new filter for relevance.
Many large governments have sought to control the internet because they know that shutting it down entirely, now that we are aware of its benefits, is impossible. They will always exercise as much control as they can, and it is quite efficient because they can control the internet through central hubs. Soon, these types of controls will no longer work because the internet will be decentralized, but governments can poison the conversation in many other ways. One of the internet’s greatest assets is its ability to capture a broad reaction in public comment sections. Governments hire people to sit behind computers all day with multiple false identities to get us to think, for example, that everyone loves something that government just did. While governments have no problem stealing the money necessary to hire armies of spammers, some have invested in “sock-puppet” software so one person can swarm a conversation with multiple fake profiles. To use this in any capacity is a fraud, but because governments are based on the fraud that we need them in the first place, it makes perfect sense that they would have an interest in this technology. As the internet continues to evolve, the sock-puppets might be filtered out, but not without a degree of vigilance from those who value the integrity of the conversation.
Sometimes for worse, but overall much more often for better, the anonymity of the internet allows us to say things we might be afraid to say “in real life.” The therapeutic effect of this cannot be underestimated as millions have already benefited from support communities that were impossible before the internet. We can challenge the status quo in ways never imagined and speak out without fear of retribution. This should inspire us to be more conscious consumers of information. Governments depend on lies and deception to maintain their rackets, but now, we have the “truth button” at our fingertips!
I am the author of FREEDOM!, a book endorsed (I mean banned) by the US Department of “Justice.” You can get a copy here. I’m running for Not-President in 2020 on the platform of the peaceful, orderly, and responsible dissolution of the United States federal government. You can find out more here. You can find an event near you here. Whoever has the top comment on this post after 24 hours can claim a free signed copy of FREEDOM! by sending me an email at [email protected] with their address.
Adam you absolute legend you thank you my man.
delib. See what I wrote to prince, just below this. May I solicit your help in the same manner? Thanks.
Count me in.
Alright. Since you have that pile of books, I will assume you have read one. How about sending me an appraisal (hopefully one which will entice 3 of your friends to do the same) [email protected]. Anytime. Anyone. I look forward to seeing it. Where are you residing? I need to break this down to a state-by-state effort.
Hey... while you are at it, and if you are bored, how about coming up with some sort of template for an intro letter others can use when approaching folks in their social circles?
I am never bored, life is way tooooo short, I am free and now living in Poland, and I have no friends.
You're more than welcome! Spread the love!
I am my friend, I have sent 1 copy to England, 1 to the Netherlands, 10 are going in my local bar that does English book lending so they should get read by 100's if not thousands of people, 1 is going to my local library, the rest I will give away locally, except of course for the signed copy, and the stickers are going on my motorbikes and cars. Once again thank you top man. Edit, if anyone in Poland wants one sending for free, message me.
The point you mentioned about what governments do and how they change your perspective about the other nations is totally ture.
In my region Asia, Pakistan and India they both are concederd rivals and they had war like four times. Since My childhood I was told that Indians are our enemy and last summer when I met some indians I was like no that is wrong and now I have some good Indian friends.
Yes! Humanity coming together one experience like that at a time. Beautiful to witness. Thanks for sharing and affirming my faith in humanity.
My pleasure.
I wish if we could see in our lives everyone living together. I wish we don't have any countries. One day I was discussing with my friend that we countries as an individual spend a hell of a lot of money on our defence budget every year. Now imagine if we were investing those on our people and living all together in one country. World would have been a better place, for sure.
Thanks @adamkokesh! This is a good chapter from a great book.
I realized it would do 2 things...
I knew it was going to be HUGE!
and realize people from all over the world are just like all the other people all over the world.
We need less government.
Thanks for being a spearhead in our battle for liberty & freedom!
This comment is like a beautiful little internet poem.
in some country like China they have firewall to control any potential espionage from other country like the US, that's why they banned Google, facebook and other US Internet tech company.
I recieved this book at your speech you did with Roger Stone for the Bundy's in Las Vegas. That was a great battle to fight, and to win.
This new information war is going to be a crazy one. I feel as though Russia was blamed for playing a better information war game than the Democrats (who were in charge via Obama) did last election.
Theres an old news clip where the today show is asking ' what is the internet'.. Today most people understanding of blockchains and cryptocurrency are just as rudimentary as these news casters understanding of what the internet is and would do. What is the internet video can be found here.
Thanks for being there! That was an epic event.
It was a good one. Did you hear that Ryan is running for governor of Nevada? I was going to post about it on here, but I've been slacking
Your post is very educative. The internet has brought so many bad effect that it ruins relationships. When a lady will come up and tell a guy the relationship is over with just a little upset. It has also brought fraud too whereby people decieve one another so easily and made away with their money.
But to me it has also helped alot to earn better than their normal pay in their daily jobs due to the fact that it creates more job opportunities.
It's clear to me the positives outweigh the negatives. What do you think?
"don't taze me bro'!" changed America... because of You Tube in its early stages on this UNLICENSED, UNCENSORED internet. Love this Steemit and DTube now.
and hey... did you know the "Star" of DTMB is working closely with Luke R. and We Are Change? Pretty cool, I'd say.
Looking at the pros and cons of internet, we can conclude that It could be used in a good as well as bad way.
Government sometimes use it to make people change their perception. on the other hand, Internet is hub of knowledge and learning as well.
So to some up the debate I definately agree to the point that we must should have to take serious check that our easy access and that global village we are living in remains the same and intact ...
yaah Sometimes for worse, but overall much more often for better, the anonymity of the internet allows us to say things we might be afraid to say “in real life. internet make things easy for us! can you give me your book which is banned in us i am inspire from you !keep spread freedom !
Great! You can get it at http://TheFreedomLine.com
The Internet has created an entire business function commonly referred to as e-business or e-commerce. E-business represents the use of Internet and business technology in a company’s operations. Most companies in the business environment have implemented some form of Internet or business technology into their business operations. While some companies faced the major changeover when developing an e-business function, other companies may have been on the edge of this technology before the widespread use of the Internet.
Great article. I agree with almost all of your points. However, it is the anonymity that has made it easier for cowards, bullies, and haters to flourish. Unfortunately we have to take the bad with the good! Thanks for sharing! @journeyfreedom
I support freedom ... I support you @adamkokesh..
I sent an email in your email address already....
Your "freedom " concept is awesome...I appreciate this concept @adamkokesh.
prince: can you give us 10 min. per day, 6 days a week helping us spread Adam's book across the internet? I assume you have read it, or listened to it. Yes?
Yes, I can.
But say details please??
Well, not to create any false hope sphere(s) of delusion, I don't think there will be 34% of America who will agree with Adam's prescription of noFedGov in 2020, (especially with so many previously "limited government" types falling for the MAGA WWE-style orchestration), however I can certainly see the advent of 15% of adults saying they like the libertarian presentation enough, to a point where it should be on the same stage with the jackass and elephant in the presidential debates. That is the polling numbers which will get Adam there. With Blockchain we can assure NO RIGGING of those poll numbers. That being said, we need to build "Adam's Army" of folks who read or listened to the book, and are willing to write an appraisal of it... for better or worse and email it back. We need you to work your social circles and simply ask each person to at least hear the audio version up to the 8:05 mark, the point at which he can make an intelligent decision as to whether or not he wants to finish it... When you get to 3 people willing to do what I am asking of you, then you help the 3 people you attained do the same, below him. Simple. No money involved. Simple use of this UNCENSORED, UNLICENSED internet for the mere cost of your time. What sayeth?
Here's the link.
[email protected] Anyone. Anytime. Send me your appraisal and commentary on any part, or the whole book. The goal is to attain 1million adults in this "army".
Where are you located, prince?
This is awesome! You're going to love what I'll be posting about the book on Monday. I have a plan to make national news with FREEDOM!
oh no!!! He's gonna go back to that spot where he shot the shotGun in WDC to get arrested, and this time, walk around naked like those chickies on the NH beaches loving their nipples, on camera with a bullhorn giving out books! Here we go..........
Otherwise, I hope I will love it... because, I don't care how we cut this stinky cheeeeeze, if we can't get our man on the debate stage, running for president is a waste of time; no one takes him seriously... and we continue to suffer like hell over the "wasted vote syndrome", to the point of abject, eternal anonymity.
If we fail here, I'd rather just see you run for governor of NH with the same plan of decentralizing that state into 400 or so "districts" (whatever the amount of stateHouse reps are there). NO ONE IN A STATE OF 1.3 million which you can literally walk across in a week, can ignore you. Or if you are so disposed to "out west", we work MT or WY with the same plan. Both states only have around 1/2 million population. There has got to be other libertarians across America besides me who ARE SICK AND PHUQUIN' TIRED OF LOSING ALL THE TIME TO JACKASSES AND DUMB-AS-ALL-PHUQUE ELEPHANTS. eh?
So. DON'T FAIL, SEMPER FI JAR-HEAD! Let's work together to find 1 million adults who have read or listened to the book, and have convinced 3 of their friends to do the same... offering YOU written appraisal of the work, ON THE RECORD... with some sort of affidavit attached, where they will claim support of your candidacy. 3million should poll high enough to enter that dungeon.
Do you realize how friggin' stupid you will make Okrah and The Donald look??!!!
I am waiting for that to happen ..
Waiting for internet to become completely decentralized ....
That freedom to us can make much difference in the world.we wud no more be w@tched out by the puppets government..no one can shut down the internet ...
we have become slaves of Internet, that's not what we are made for.
Who is a slave of the internet? Anyone can walk away from it any time without any penalty or punishment. Nothing in the internet demands you give up your free agency. NOTHING.
Your post is golden. I think post might have its advantages as well as & also nice post thanks for sharing..
Well its always the government which decides what to do and what to dont, they don't think about people, they only think about funds, and they also control the Internet, they show people what they want to and hide the rest they also interfere in privacy of common people, this is what they do. Is this democracy?
But there is a problem about net neutrality!
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Nice post
its two effect..
good and bad.
internet has a good technology but its has a bad effect also....
That's a great post about the effect of internet. The secrets which our country or Government tries to hide can be easily found out somehow on the internet. Moreover, YouTube has become a business as it's mostly based on users and the content creators of YouTube may reveal the secrets as it might help them gain them views.
Resteeming this post.
True, the internet is truly one of the most revolutionizing modern inventions! Although as with everything there's downsides with it. Great post.
nice concept.
Nice post @adamkokesh, Thanks for sharing.
I just upvote you, and this article was reblog by me. I hope you dont mind. Please come to home too.
Really internet has brought a freedom of speaking, opinions of freedom. It has brought a revolutionary change in our life all over the world. When any subject is raised by internet then that things spread to all over the world at the more speed.
The internet has allowed the interchange of ideas and materials among scientists, university professors, and students, in addition to provide servers, resource centers and online tools for their research and scholar activities. Moreover, million of books, journals and other material are available through the internet because of the digitization of public domains material from libraries in the States and Europe. This action enables people to learn all new sort of things.
My Facebook account was hacked today, with different name, password and Gmail, all just to use my account for scamming people through social media, as you mentioned we should be vigilant as there can be impersonation through Internet, thanks to the Facebook team, and Gmail for securing my account back, but I can only change my name back in the next 60days.
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.
"The future has imploded into the present
With no nuclear war, a new battlefield is on people's minds and souls
Mega-corporations are the new governments;
Computer-generated info domains are the new frontiers
And though there is better living through science and chemistry
We are all becoming cyborgs
The computer is the new cool tool
And though they say all information should be free
It is not
Information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit
So mistrust authority
Cyberpunks are the true rebels;
Cyberculture is coming in under the radar of ordinary society...
An unholy alliance of the tech world and the world of organized dissent
Welcome to the Cyber Corporation...
...Cyberpunks"
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vote on your post very much @adamkokesh.
I also made a post about struggle and independence.
but I do not accept upvote.
ha ha
I am very unfortunate.
your post is very good @adamkokesh
I wonder if Anarchopulco actually ever happens without the advent of the unlicensed, uncensored internet. Woodstock came together without it back in 1969. Who knows? Of course, if our nation didn't have the military draft, I doubt there would have been such a backlash. The PTB recognized they pushed a bit too hard, and too fast, so by 1976, they ushered in Disco, and we were DUNNNNNNNNN! So I'm sure they thought "1984" was right on schedule with their "main frame" computers all lined up for us and their counterfeit currency production and distribution activity in high gear.
The interned has changed a lot since I first started using it. It feels so much more commercialized now. Big corporations are constantly trying take control.
Hi @adamkokesh
I have an opinion with you. the view that there is a threat in the internet is very real. many studies in the world that show the dangers of lies in the world of the internet. even as politics becomes part of the social media movement. we can not distinguish something right or lie. our job is to keep information true. so we can be good information for social media users.
We can do better than that.
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