In 2008 I returned to England from living in Spain. To say I was unhappy to be back in the United Kingdom would be a massive understatement. I felt ill from the moment I set foot in Dover.
Grey weather, dull colourless streets and only manicured lawns to walk my dogs, it was all a far cry from the wild mountain Almanzor where we had previously lived.
I bought myself a laptop and slowly worked out how to use it a bit. Not much. I did not think of using social media until about 2010 when my son came to stay and introduced me to Facebook. I found it seductive. It was so inviting and friendly. I could link up with friends and family at no cost.
By 2013 I had realised that I was caught in a trap. I was giving all my opinions online. I was filling my profile with my photos and memories. The files there were getting fatter daily.
I opened accounts elsewhere. Minds, MeWe and Twitter were atmospherically different from Facebook and I liked Twitter best. I learned a lot by looking up everything that I saw mentioned but was new to me.
In 2016 I began to investigate electro-magnetic radiation because 5G sounded like a step too far into the invisible life support system we have on this planet.
In 2017, quite suddenly the traffic on my accounts plummeted. Friends called me to ask why I was not posting as regularly as before. My account was ghosted. I could see all my posts but only a very select few were being disseminated in the news feed.
I began to get suspensions for posts I had written years before! These accumulated to such an extent that in 2018 I only accessed Facebook for a few days at a time before another suspension kicked in.
I began to use Twitter far more and built a following of over 12,000.
In December of 2020 I reported on an email exchange that I had with UK MHRA and kissed goodbye to my Twitter account within minutes. That account has never been restored even though I did not break the law or post misinformation.
I began to write my articles on Steemit and later, Hive. These were on the blockchain and would be safe from removal, I thought. But strange power struggles were going on causing small accounts like mine to be targeted by ‘whales’ who ganged up and down-voted us out of the algorithms.
Since then, in December 2021 Facebook and Discord also completely removed my accounts.
In January of 2022 I found Substack via an account I opened on GETTR. I decided to transfer my most treasured articles, research and opinion pieces to Substack.
It took me about a month to recognise that dissident voices were being corralled into algorithm ghettos and that our work would not be seen by the general public again.
This year, Elon Musk has changed the relationship of his X social media platform with Substack and that has impacted the links we previously enjoyed.
The compartmentalisation of society is being extended to cyber space.
We are each in our homes linked to the internet which is also shrinking at a tremendous rate. The ghettos are getting smaller and smaller.
It would be great if the Algorithm Ghetto were only affecting our social media presence but it is much worse than that.
The man who coined the term explained it in 2020:
Award-winning author Edwin Black discusses "Newgenics" and the Chinese-style "Social Credit Score" system which he believes will ultimately come to every nation on earth and which has been greatly accelerated by Covid-19. He describes how a person within such a system will become relegated to the "Algorithm Ghetto" with a "Non-Entity" or "Zombie" status. He looks at what this means for the future and what, if anything, individuals or nations can do to mitigate such a dystopian scenario.
It is amazing how accurate Edwin Black’s predictions turned out to be. Or was he forewarned? I suspect the latter.
Eventually, at this rate, our homes and even our bodies will become the aptly named KILL BOXES that Sabrina Wallace explains here:
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and here:
https://odysee.com/@psinergy:f/trim.9FA35796-3C5D-4093-80C8-41AC3AADB875:3
We need solutions, don’t we?
Let’s talk about it in comments.
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