The Mark of the Beast: Social Media Training the World to Expect Punishment for Free Speech

“To still believe… that the facebook jails, YouTube strikes and Twitter suspensions of today are not already leading us to a time of social and economic shaming and eventual incarceration and starvation, is to be fatally, stupidly naive. We are being behaviorally conditioned to both expect and receive punishment for the words we speak and write. Manner and severity of that punishment, subject to change without notice.”

–Shad Olson

The Mark of the Beast is not coming. It is here. It’s simply completing gestation in an incubator and wailing its first cries of infantile exploration in a maturing process that should have the laser attention of every free breathing human on earth. Perhaps ask the Chinese about their journey into the abyss.

In China, they call it simply, your “social score.” And forget academic standardized testing or even your credit score. In China, a digitally compiled fingerprint of your compliance to government authority, your predilection for speaking contrary to government approved policy and your likelihood and propensity for deviation from socialist influence are rolled together into an algorithm that serves as a technocratic caste system where your social score determines which jobs you can have, where and how far you can travel inside the country, which house you can buy and even who you’re eligible to marry. Like American Express, you don’t leave home without it, or maybe at all. Score poorly enough and you don’t get to eat.

And the real kicker? Facebook and Google helped them build it.

While Christians fretted decades about implanted microchips and barcodes on foreheads and the burgeoning new horizon of neural networked hardware into brain and body, the social media tech giants of the world were patiently collecting our thoughts, cataloging our political opinions, hopes, dreams and fears, assigning and categorizing every human with an online identity into the giant seining net of ideological classification and nomenclature. Graded by level of passion and depth of commitment to idea and philosophy and even our potential susceptibility to rehabilitation and the adoption of alternate reality via reeducation. And we did it all for them. That work is done.

Now, in the same span when a conservative online media mogul became just the first dissident exile to be purged from the platforms and distribution hubs that serve as the modern town square of the internet community, online payment systems, email service providers and even major credit card companies are doing the same. Not just to patriot firebrand and provocateur, Alex Jones, mind you, but to conservative think tanks and activist organizations fighting desperately against the exact brand of globalist despotism and centralized autocratic thought policing that is now being foisted in real time.

Doors to Digital Commerce Slammed Shut

David Horowitz, courageous teller of truths about the brutality and endemic blood lust of the Islamic faith, stated recently that the donation portal of his David Horowitz Freedom Center has been blacklisted by Visa and Mastercard, with both companies refusing to process donations made to Horowitz by their customers.

The Freedom Center is the latest target of the Southern Poverty Law Center in their decades old, demonic, defamatory, distortion campaign against conservatives and patriots who oppose outright socialist collectivization of the United States. With a brutally simplistic strategy of intimidation, labeling and mass shaming, the SPLC labels a person or organization, a “hate speech.” They then set assiduously about the business of social and economic isolation of said organization by threatening boycott and defamatory destruction of any sponsor, corporation or service provider that facilitates operation or infrastructure of the blacklisted company or person. And the pressure works.

Southern Poverty Law Center’s War Against Free Speech

In a recent email to supporters, David Horowitz pleads with donors to mail checks to a post office box and continue their support, despite an e-commerce wounding that Horowitz says has the potential to be coup de grace for decades of hard work.

Just days earlier, under internal pressure from their employees and from Mastercard corporate, digital payment service provider, Patreon halted services to Alex Jones and to Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer, labeling both as “hate speech.” Mass emailing platform, Mail Chimp followed suit, canceling Jones’ account and scuttling his ability to interface with an email list of more than 11-million contacts. Doors to the digital marketplace of ideas and commerce, slammed and welded shut on grounds of ideological non-compliance. Chilling.

Awaken sleeper and arise, to the reality that despite decades of talk about “hate speech,” “safe zones,” “sensitivity training,” and “snowflakes,” none of this broader cultural discussion about feelings and kindness and inclusion was ever really about making a more tolerant world, (ANTIFA?) or even about safeguarding the butterfly-winged fragility of the intractably dysfunctional millennial emotional palette.

Awaken sleeper and arise, to the reality that despite decades of talk about “hate speech,” “safe zones,” “sensitivity training,” and “snowflakes,” none of this broader cultural discussion about feelings and kindness and inclusion was ever really about making a more tolerant world, (ANTIFA?) or even about safeguarding the butterfly-winged fragility of the intractably dysfunctional millennial emotional palette. It was only and precisely about creating and justifying a social conformity and control grid complete with consequences and transgressive teeth that now include the loss of mass distributed free speech and even the ability to buy, sell, barter and trade between likeminded individuals and groups for amplified political effectiveness.

“…that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,”

Revelation 13:17

Before our very eyes, the ability to influence, to speak our minds and inspire the minds of others is giving rapid way to the ability to do business and indeed to buy our daily bread. To still believe, given the examples of Alex Jones and thousands of unheralded unknown dissidents of the digital age, that the facebook jails, YouTube strikes and twitter suspensions of today are not already leading us to a time of social and economic shaming and eventual incarceration and starvation is to be fatally, stupidly naive. We are being behaviorally conditioned to both expect and receive punishment for the words we speak and write. Manner and severity of that punishment, subject to change without notice.

And at this very moment, on the very page where you read these words, your score, your determined outreach and visibility in the community of ideas is already being calculated, tabulated and applied, marking you either as a good and manageable and compliantly servile member of a rapidly closing society, or a potential “unperson,” censored, isolated and deprived of the goods, services and opportunities of an abundant life. Speak now, or don’t speak at all. We must hang together, or we most certainly will hang separately.

“First they came for Alex Jones, but because I wasn’t Alex Jones, I remained silent….”

The Mark of the Beast is here.

The Unpersoning of a Dissident in Orwell’s Dystopic Masterpiece, 1984

1 comment

James Reed 15 November, 2018 at 17:10 Reply

Could not agree more. The warning signs are there for those who have watched and listened.
Time to go off the Grid in a very big way.
Google is a tool that they will use, as well as Facebook, (jailed 7 times now) and Twitter which I have always avoided.
Almost lost my job for calling a Co-worker, (who had no problem with it) darlin.
I am a Southern gentleman and will never be PC.
Thanks Shad for your courage in always raising awareness and woe to those who do not listen or believe.