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noticeably different from a few years ago and if the info you are researching is still out there you have to jump through hoops and be pretty on it and clever to find what your looking for. Respect &x 2 All. Dave

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I didn't know this, the first one is a really great video. Thanks for turning me on to that channel. 👍🏽

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Hello Mr. Leader,

well, I use the browser Qwant and have had no trouble finding anything yet, but of course you are right that everyone should think or speak with family and friends about this, because this is a massive interference with the freedom of information....

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Frances, these shenanigans have causes. We are not looking at the causes and now the effects of the causes are metastasizing. What are the causes? What is the cause of it all ultimately? Does anyone want to talk about this? I have my observations and analyses but I never hear anyone talking about this. Shouldn't we be talking about the causes?

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Hmmm. It's almost as if the Bad Guys are tightening the noose...

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Quote - Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self control. ( Daniel Goldman ) I see the internet as digital control the the human perception control the internet control the perception. Imagine the internet direct into the brain ( jeez )

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Frances Leader

When was the last time anyone heard the term Net Neutrality? It disappeared about the same time this phenomenon metastasized.

Your timing is impeccable. Omg. This past week had me cursing the net out loud that “I can’t find anything anymore!”

In recent instances I was looking for benign technical discussions that were the type of thing that populated the net in the past: forum pages, with a moderator who set them up. Vast insider tricks of the trade. They’ve virtually disappeared from every search engine, replaced with “Strictly Commercial” let me sell you a new (overpriced) thing crap. Many websites, yes, but many of them saying the exact same thing verbatim.

Around 2012 was perhaps Peak Internet as far as I can tell. The amount of info that found it’s way there was vast but as yet corporate.gov NGOish influence was not yet able to smother the rest.

I miss stumbling across the utterly interesting, eccentric, and insightful characters who found their voices on internet 1.0.

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Frances Leader

In the past several months I have gotten more warning messages than I remember getting before, but I'm not sure if that was good or bad. It does seem that some sites I had bookmarked sort of quietly disappeared.

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Frances Leader

i seem to have lost a few links entirely

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Frances Leader

Love Truthstream!

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