Break Free From Censorship Now - Think Tank Report (2017)

"How to Break Free From Internet Censorship Now: Solutions to Continue Independent Research of Factual Truth" - Proof of mass censorship by Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other tech-giants. New legal method of enforcement of Free Speech as Human Rights in international law. Official report of the inter-governmental think tank Council on Alternative Policy Studies (CAPS) of Ignita Veritas United (IVU).
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How to Break Free From Internet Censorship Now 
Solutions to Continue Independent Research of Factual Truth 
 
PLEASE HELP DISTRIBUTE THIS REPORT NOW  BEFORE IT IS CENSORED 
 
Prince Judge Matthew of Thebes 
J.D., Ph.D., J.S.D., J.C.D. 
International Barrister, Judge Advocate, Privy Councillor 
(as Editor of the Anti-Censorship Project for the think tank) 
 
The Council on Alternative Policy Studies (CAPS) is the autonomous public policy Think Tank of the inter-governmental 
organization (IGO) Ignita Veritas University (IVU).  It has special mandate as a Think Tank assisting governments for 
human rights under UN Right to Protect Human Rights (Article 5), UN Economic Social & Cultural Rights providing 
"international assistance" (Article 2) through "international cooperation" (Article 15.4) for "international action" by 
"technical assistance" (Article 23).  It holds authorities to develop public policy promoting human rights under UN 
Right to Protect Human Rights, including by scholarship and publication (Article 6), and direct "participation in public 
affairs" (Article 8).  Its statutory official powers and authorities in public policy as codified in conventional 
international law are fully binding upon all countries regardless of recognition (UN Law of Treaties, Article 38). 
 
 
Contents: Topic Sections in this Report 
 
Urgent Need for and Purpose of this Report 
Proof that Mass Censorship has Already Begun 
Exposing the Self-Appointed Arbiters of "Truth" 
Censorship as Major Violations of Human Rights 
Proof of State-Sponsored Agenda of Censorship 
Censorship as an Assault Against Civilization 
Search Engine Anti-Censorship Alternatives 
Video Service Anti-Censorship Alternatives 
Social Media Anti-Censorship Alternatives 
Free Use of Mobile Anti-Censorship Services 
Independent News Uncensored Alternatives 
 
 
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Urgent Need for and Purpose of this Report 
 
Right now, in the year 2017, humanity is directly confronted with the oppressive and 
rapidly expanding scourge of mass censorship, which was already quietly rolled out in 
full force by globalist mega-corporations, as de facto monopolies in the role of quasi-
public utilities implementing state-sponsored programs.  That rollout was completed 
while the mainstream establishment media networks aided and abetted this offense, 
by keeping the general public distracted with superficial stories of artificially divisive 
politics, while suppressing any mention of the fact of censorship. 
 
Proof of Real Censorship Now  This report presents verifiable facts proving the 
reality of full-scale censorship which is already in force, for the public to be informed 
of this unprecedented historic violation of their collective human rights.  It provides 
proper source reference citations to credible and reputable sources meeting 
international academic standards, making this material practically useful and suitable 
for official and institutional use. 
 
Without this presentation proving censorship, most people would not believe it, 
precisely because that same censorship in collusion with mainstream media willfully 
prevents them from knowing about this massive event. 
 
New Tools to Break Free Now  Even more importantly, this report provides solutions, 
featuring sections presenting the most effective uncensored, independent and 
alternative search engines, video services, social media platforms, and news outlets, 
with direct links.  Using these new tools will open a whole new world of the free and 
independent Internet, without censorship, the way it was supposed to be.   
 
It is a compelling necessity, indeed a requirement of self-preservation by asserting 
human rights, for the general public to immediately "vote with their feet" by 
abandoning the online platforms of self-appointed censors, and switching to free and 
fair service providers.   
 
If humanity does not collectively send the strongest possible message to censoring 
mega-corporations now, then it will quickly and perhaps permanently lose all human 
rights to individually communicate any meaningful messages to each other. 
 
 
 
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Why This Report Was Written Now  The urgent need for this report was discovered 
by Judges of the independent Judiciary profession, while working on a human rights 
case at Bar in a Court of international Justice: 
 
First the lawyers found that key facts of public record, which should appear in top 
results for their expertly highly relevant search terms, were wholly excluded from 
online search results, which instead yielded only an abundance of state-sponsored 
propaganda from the governmental Defendant, obfuscating or misrepresenting facts, 
without references to any actual verifiable facts nor to any real sources. 
 
Next when the lawyers asked the Chamber of Instruction Judges for assistance in 
verifying official facts needed to develop the case, the investigating Judges of the 
Court found that interviewed witnesses often provided email links to webpages 
containing the facts complete with source references, which never appeared in any 
search results, even when the full page titles together with whole paragraphs in 
quotes were used as the search terms. 
 
Finally, when the Court published a Judgment in one case, and a Court Order in 
another human rights case, the Chamber of Presiding Judges saw that on the first day 
the press release post and also the online document held the top two positions of the 
first search results page, as they should  based on the keywords.  However, only a 
short 24 hours later, both were suddenly buried beyond any ability to find them, 
appearing to have been completely excluded from all search results. 
 
None of the participating law firms or Judges had ever seen such obvious and 
obstructionist censorship of factual and official information of public record before 
July and August of the year 2017. 
 
The Court, outraged at such brazen and intrusive censorship flagrantly violating 
international law and obstructing official Judiciary authorities, and recognizing this 
censorship as a direct sabotage of the ability of any law firm or Court to function 
effectively in the online information age, approached the Council on Alternative Policy 
Studies (CAPS), requesting to urgently write this report to provide some solution. 
 
 
 
 
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Proof that Mass Censorship has Already Begun 
 
During April to June 2017, Google has officially announced  and thus publicly 
admitted  the rollout of a major new search engine algorithm for outright censorship, 
which liberal websites say severely restricts "public access to Internet websites that 
operate independently of the corporate and state-controlled media".  The 
announcement was "virtually buried by the corporate media.  Neither the New York 
Times nor the Wall Street Journal has reported the statement.  The Washington Post 
limited its coverage of the statement to a single blog post."  (World Socialist Web Site, 
Google's Chief Legitimizes New Censorship Algorithm, 31 July 2017.) 
 
The head of Google's parent company, Eric Schmidt, is a prominent and active 
participant in the secretive "Bilderberg group" of leaders implementing the globalist 
anti-humanitarian agenda, which has declared a "war on information", specifically to 
prevent "growing populism" (The Guardian, Bilderberg: The World's Most Secretive 
Conference, 02 June 2017). 
 
In November 2016, both Google and Facebook announced new algorithms which 
censor independent media as so-called "fake news", specifically labeling all anti-
globalist or truth movement content as "conspiracy theories" and "misleading 
information".  The policy declares the media monopolies as self-appointed arbiters 
over what content may be labeled "misleading or deceptive".  Facebook has admitted 
that it already started "to closely vet all prospective publishers and monitor existing 
ones to ensure compliance."  (CBS News, Facebook Google Announce New Policies, 15 
November 2016.) 
 
Google has openly admitted that it now blocks or restricts access to all content which 
does not agree with "established" mainstream mass media narratives, by labeling it as 
"low quality" information (21st Century Wire, Google is the Engine of Censorship, 11 
August 2017). 
 
The current highly aggressive censorship is implemented by "disappearing" all posts of 
dissenting content, making them invisible to followers and excluded from search 
results, essentially quarantined in a gulag which Google and YouTube call a "limited 
state", to "isolate and contain" targeted users with dissenting opinions.  (21st Century 
Wire, Digital Tyranny: Google and Facebook's Censorship Program, 06 August 2017.) 
 
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Although Google is criticized for its censorship mostly suppressing conservative 
viewpoints, many liberal, progressive, anti-war and democratic websites are also being 
buried into digital oblivion.  Such liberal sites are also widely reporting that Google 
"restricts access to alternative websites, whose coverage and interpretation of events 
conflict with those of establishment media outlets to effectively conceal or bury 
content  Google is using these criminal methods to block users from accessing 
political viewpoints the company deems objectionable".  (World Socialist Website, 
New Google Algorithm Restricts Access, 27 July 2017.) 
 
Using the excuse of a claimed need to filter out so-called "fake news", now "Google 
decides not only what political views it wants censored, but also what sites are to be 
favored."  Google's official rhetoric frequently refers to allowing only "authoritative" 
sources of information, a word defined by Oxford English Dictionary as meaning "from 
an official source and requiring compliance or obedience."  Google openly shows that 
it "does not want people to access anything besides the official narrative, worked out 
by the government, intelligence agencies political parties, and transmitted to the 
population by the corporate-controlled media."  (World Socialist Web Site, Google's 
Chief Legitimizes New Censorship Algorithm, 31 July 2017.) 
 
This active program of sweeping content censorship also includes what is called 
"demonetization", which essentially means monetary censorship, by banning and 
blocking all advertising revenues which support independent websites with alternative 
viewpoints (CBS News, Facebook Google Announce New Policies, 15 November 2016). 
 
Facebook declared it will not "display ads" in websites containing allegedly 
"misleading" content, and Google announced its program to "restrict ad serving on 
pages that misrepresent" information.  YouTube, owned by Google, went even further 
with more subjective criteria, imposing demonetization of content merely involving 
any "sensitive" or "controversial" topics (i.e. anything that is real news), as supposedly 
"not advertiser friendly".  (Journalism News, Google and Facebook Will be Arbiters of 
Truth in War on 'Fake News', 17 February 2017.) 
 
YouTube further expanded the globalist anti-populist witch hunt to "controversial 
religious" content, positioning it to escalate censorship even against human rights to 
Freedom of Religion.  While videos of dissenting opinions are not deleted, they are 
"placed in a limited state", demonetized and hidden, never to appear in search results.  
The announcement was superficially wrapped in vague references to "radicalization 
and terrorism", apparently only as a false justification and distraction from the core 
strategic rollout of censorship for its own sake.  (YouTube, An Update on Our 
Commitment to Fight Content Online, 01 August 2017.) 
 
 
 
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Exposing the Self-Appointed Arbiters of "Truth" 
 
Any idea that tech-giants like Google could be trusted as a fair arbiter of any "truth" is 
conclusively disproven by an internal memo of August 2017, written by the Google 
engineer turned whistle-blower James Damore, who was immediately fired for daring 
to express any independent political opinion.  The memo exposed Google's repressive 
political culture of imposing globalist propaganda under the social dictatorship of 
political correctness, which mandates strict intolerance of any and all alternative 
viewpoints in the name of supposed "diversity".  (21st Century Wire, Google Fires Man 
Who Complained About Repressive Political Culture, 08 August 2017.) 
 
The memo, entitled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", revealed how Google 
executives are promoting "the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this 
[globalist] ideology", through a corporate "culture of shaming and misrepresentation 
unaccepting of anyone outside its echo chamber".  It highlighted that establishment 
"biases" are enforced by "shaming into silence" with "the possibility of being fired", 
and witnessed that "honest discussion about these biases is being silenced by the 
dominant ideology", as "a politically correct monoculture" which "removes any checks 
against encroaching extremist and authoritarian policies".  (Gizmodo, Exclusive: Full 
10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed at Google, 05 August 2017.) 
 
This repressive politicized culture imposed by Google executives is necessarily 
reflected in its new censorship program implemented by its automated search engine 
algorithms. 
 
In addition to direct censorship by blocking content, in October 2017 Google also 
launched a so-called "fact checking" feature in the US and UK on Google News.  The 
system labels links on the search results page to "show whether it is considered to be 
true or false".  Whatever cannot be outright censored without public backlash can 
thus be portrayed as supposedly discredited.  (Such practice is most likely to 
systematically promote false unlawful defamation, including what lawyers call false-
light defamation, against independent content publishers.)   
 
The officially admitted purpose of this "fact checking" is to favor establishment 
websites which are "algorithmically determined to be an authoritative source of 
information".  (The Guardian, Google to Display Fact-Checking Labels if News is True or 
False, 07 April 2017.) 
 
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Facebook first rolled out a "fact checking" feature in March 2017, which flags links 
subjectively labeled as "Disputed Content", citing supposed "independent fact-
checkers to crack down on" disagreeable content.  The system also triggers a series of 
repeated "pop-up" warning boxes to discourage users from clicking "Publish" to share 
a link with dissenting content.  (The Guardian, Fact-Checkers: Facebook New Alert to 
Combat Fake News, 22 March 2017.) 
 
The primary Facebook "fact-checkers" include Correctiv, Snopes and Politifact (The 
Guardian, Fact-Checkers: Facebook New Alert to Combat Fake News, 22 March 2017): 
 
Correctiv is funded by the globalist George Soros through his "Open Society 
Foundation", and is predominantly staffed by "political correctness" globalists who 
write for openly biased publications (Media Fact Watch, Facebook 'Fact-Checker' 
Censorship Team Funded by Soros to Silence Real Facts, 09 February 2017).  Soros and 
his foundation were exposed for funding and directing fake "grass-roots" protests and 
sponsoring artificial political destabilization internationally, including the illegal coup 
which overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine (World Net Daily, 
Soros Heavily Invested in Ukraine Crisis, 04 March 2014). 
 
George Soros also funds his supporting foundation "Media Matters", dedicated to 
silencing alternative media by falsely pretending to "discredit" independent outlets, to 
enforce the dominance of globalist establishment media.  (Media Fact Watch, Media 
Matters Assembled Team Focused on Discrediting Independent Media, 18 February 
2017.)  A confidential manifesto of the "strategic plan" of Media Matters admits this 
agenda to "weaponize our research products to take action against the changing 
[independent] media...  Key [populist] figures will lose credibility and influence in 
response to our research and pressure", the intended result of Soros-sponsored fake-
news hit-pieces of false defamation.  (David Brock, Democracy Matters: Strategic Plan 
for Action, Media Matters, 2017, Internal Memo marked "Private and Confidential".) 
 
George Soros publicly admitted in a deleted (censored) "60 Minutes" interview that he 
was a real Nazi collaborator, who actively "helped in the confiscation of property from 
the Jews but it was no problem at all I had no sense of guilt." (Steve Krost, 
Interview with George Soros, CBS "60 Minutes", 20 December 1998; See Video.)  He 
also stated that the year 1944 when 70% of his fellow Hungarian Jews were killed by 
the Nazis was "the happiest [year] of his life" (Kaufman, Soros: The Life and Times of a 
Messianic Billionaire, Knopf, p.5, p.37). 
 
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Snopes has a logo actually including the motto "Rumor Has It", openly admitting it is 
driven by politicized rumors and not facts.  It was founded by a husband and wife who 
used a false letterhead claiming to be a non-existent society to start their "research", 
which is nothing more than searching for things on Google.  She admitted in legal 
documents his embezzlement of company funds to spend on prostitutes.  Snopes later 
employed his new wife as an "administrator", who is actually a career "escort and 
porn actress".  Its main "fact checker" admitted on her blog "ViceVixen" that she has 
published Snopes articles "while smoking pot".  (Daily Mail, Exclusive: Facebook 'Fact 
Checker' Defrauding Website to Pay for Prostitutes, 21 December 2016.) 
 
Politifact uses a "Truth-O-Meter" rating scale, determined by "fact checkers" who 
themselves write openly biased articles blindly repeating globalist talking points 
despite all contrary facts (Media Fact Watch, Sad Yet Not Surprising: Politifact, 01 
January 2017). 
 
Google also claims that its supposed "fact checks" are performed by "named trusted 
publishers and fact-checkers".  (The Guardian, Google to Display Fact-Checking Labels 
if News is True or False, 07 April 2017.)  Google also uses Snopes and Politifact, as well 
as BuzzFeed and Salon (The Daily Wire, Google Fact-Checks News Using Buzzfeed, 
Salon, Snopes, 10 April 2017). 
 
BuzzFeed was exposed for "overt censorship" deleting articles because the mere 
"tone" was considered not "advertiser-friendly", making 4,000 posts "quietly 
disappear".  It was also exposed for plagiarism.  (Columbia Journalism Review, 
BuzzFeed's Censorship Problem, 16 April 2015.)  BuzzFeed was also exposed for 
publishing a fake "dossier" from anonymous sources with "literally no evidence on 
offer that any single sentence in these documents is factual or true".  BuzzFeed's 
Senior Editor publicly admitted that the false document was known to be "prepared 
for political opponents" and that "there is serious reason to doubt the allegations" in 
that fake dossier.  (New York Post, BuzzFeed's Report Takes 'Fake News' to a New 
Level, 10 January 2017) 
 
Salon was exposed for publishing a series of at least five articles of globalist "political 
correctness" propaganda in 2015 actually promoting and normalizing pedophilia.  It 
deleted its pedophilia articles two years later in 2017, only because it wanted to 
launch false defamation wrongfully accusing a libertarian speaker of indirect 
comments which could be misinterpreted as vaguely tolerant of pedophilia.  Salon 
then published the false defamation hit-piece, ignoring the fact that the speaker had 
already publicly condemned Salon for its own flagrant pro-pedophilia articles.  (Media 
Fact Watch, Salon.com Removed Pro-Pedophilia Stories Before Left-Wing Attack, 23 
February 2017.) 
 
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YouTube in August 2017 announced "tougher standards for videos that are 
controversial but do not violate our policies", relying on "expert institutions" including 
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), claimed to have "expert knowledge of complex 
issues like hate speech" and other highly subjective globalist pseudo-legal 
euphemisms used for censoring Freedom of Speech.  Note that so-called "hate 
speech" is not a legal term, and is increasingly applied when the speaker hates 
anything at all, including even hating evil, wrongdoing or injustice. 
 
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)  irrespective of its unrelated Jewish advocacy  is 
well known for promoting globalist authoritarian policies, driven by an aggressive bias 
against any alternative viewpoints dissenting from establishment propaganda.  It was 
exposed for publishing a false list of alleged "Alt-Right" (i.e. populist) members, which 
maliciously featured many classical liberals and social libertarians who advocate 
tolerance and inclusiveness but simply disagree with the globalist agenda dismantling 
human rights, labeling them as "extremists".  Ironically, such provably false portrayal 
with willful disregard for verifiable facts is the legal definition of "Defamation", which 
ADL is named for supposedly fighting against.  (The Daily Caller, Popular YouTubers 
React to Censorship of 'Controversial' Content, 01 August 2017) 
 
Note that such "fact checkers" only check claimed "facts" using search engines, as the 
means to impose censorship of those same search engines, thereby increasingly 
narrowing the available search results.  This is the practical equivalent of tightening a 
noose around one's own neck, to hang oneself with. 
 
These above groups are the so-called "third party fact checkers" of the Internet, 
empowered by mega-corporations to be the self-proclaimed "arbiters of truth", 
wielding the artificial authority to impose mass censorship suppressing the largest 
communications channel in history for exercising basic human rights of Freedom of 
Speech.   
 
These are the much touted "experts", from tech engineers to amateur bloggers to 
prostitutes to Nazi collaborators, who now dictate what the people are allowed to 
think, write, see or read, to enforce their radical political globalist ideology upon the 
rest of the world. 
 
 
 
 
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Censorship as Major Violations of Human Rights 
 
This corporate censorship now facing and threatening all peoples of the world is in 
flagrant violation of fundamental human rights to Freedom of Speech, which are 
enshrined not only in the Constitution of the United States (US Constitution, 1st 
Amendment), but also in conventional international law: 
 
Through the universal doctrine of Equal Protection of Law, national constitutional 
rights (including Freedom of Speech) are also basic human rights, which are 
enforceable at the higher level of international law.  This is recognized and codified by 
the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Human Rights (Article 7) and also Covenant on 
Civil and Political Rights (Article 26). 
 
Regardless of any particular national constitution, all countries of the world have 
officially agreed that Freedom of Speech is a fundamental right of natural law, 
permanently established as a protected universal human right: 
 
The UN Human Rights (Article 19) and Civil Rights (Article 19.2) conventions both 
mandate that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression and to 
impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers." 
 
Thus recognized and codified in conventional international law, Freedom of Speech 
can thereafter never be revoked nor denied by anyone, and is enforceable at the 
supra-governmental level. 
 
The same UN Human Rights (Article 12) and Civil Rights (Article 17) also mandate that 
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his correspondence.  
Everyone has the right to the protection of law against such interference or attacks."   
 
This is the codification of the higher natural law that the human right to Freedom of 
Speech specifically includes communication as "correspondence", which necessarily 
includes the ability to both send and receive information, which by definition includes 
the right to publish, and also to find and read, such information. 
 
The idea, promoted by the propaganda narrative of mainstream "news" media, that 
interference against Free Speech is only prohibited as "censorship" if done by an 
official government agency, or by a near-monopoly as a quasi-public utility, is false.  
Although this may be partially true only from the limited perspective of national law, it 
completely ignores the very existence of human rights  and disregards Freedom of 
Speech as a protected human right  at the higher level of international law. 
 
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International law mandates direct corporate and even personal liability for violations 
of human rights (UN Responsibility to Protect Human Rights, Articles 10-11; UN 
Remedy for Violations of Human Rights, Article 3(b)), which is subject to direct 
corporate and individual sanctions and penalties (UN Justice for Victims of Abuse of 
Power, Article 8).  International criminal liability applies despite the actions not being 
prohibited by national criminal laws (UN Abuse of Power, Article 18). 
 
Moreover, all countries are required to enforce internationally recognized human 
rights, both by domestic law enforcement and domestic Courts (UN Right to Protect 
Human Rights, Articles 9.5, 10-11). 
 
Furthermore, all countries are also required to enforce "foreign" Judgments upholding 
human rights, from any international Court of Law operated by the independent 
Judiciary profession (UN Remedy for Violations of Human Rights, Article 17). 
 
The Constitution of the United States declares that "This Constitution and all Treaties 
made shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be 
bound thereby" (US Constitution, Article 6).  "Treaties" by definition includes the UN 
conventions on human rights and civil rights, both of which guarantee Freedom of 
Speech.   
 
Therefore, all human rights recognized in the UN framework of international law are 
also American "constitutional rights", such that all US Courts must apply and enforce 
those international human rights, including direct enforcement against violations by 
private corporations. 
 
For these reasons, a US Federal Court of Appeals in Washington DC ruled that "basic 
norms of international law" such as human rights "restrain our government", including 
its domestic Courts, "in the same way that the Constitution restrains it."  (US Citizens 
in Nicaragua v. Reagan, 859 F.2nd 941, D.C.Cir., 1988.) 
 
 
 
 
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Proof of State-Sponsored Agenda of Censorship 
 
The escalating wave of new and pervasive mass censorship appears to be driven by a 
state-sponsored agenda to essentially eliminate human rights of Freedom of Speech, 
all self-justified and promoted by governmental establishment propaganda.  The fact 
of this new reality is supported by compelling evidence of several government 
programs and initiatives, which demonstrate that allegedly "private" corporate actions 
are actually in furtherance of state-sanctioned policies, implemented as governmental 
joint projects: 
 
Microsoft founder Bill Gates began his technology career as a hacker, reportedly 
recruited by the US National Security Agency (NSA), after "he was caught hacking into 
a major corporation" (Forbes, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Was Caught Hacking, 18 
February 2016).  He is a leading globalist, who has publicly declared that "something 
like a world government" is "necessary" (Huffington Post, Bill Gates: 'We Need a 
World Government', 27 January 2015, translated from "Sddeutsche Zeitung" 
interview). 
 
All Microsoft Windows operating systems by 1999 had special program codes for 
"back door" access by the NSA, as proven by conclusive evidence discovered by both 
British and American security firms.  (Heise Online: TelePolis, How NSA Access Was 
Built Into Windows, 04 September 1999.)  Both Microsoft and the NSA have publicly 
acknowledged their close cooperation in developing Windows XP, Windows Vista, and 
Windows 7 (Computer World, NSA Helped with Windows 7 Development, 18 
November 2009). 
 
Microsoft launched its major "Bing" search engine in 2009 to compete with Google.  
Microsoft acquired the Skype communications service in May 2011, and acquired the 
LinkedIn social media platform in December 2016.  The Yahoo search engine became 
exclusively powered by Microsoft Bing in July 2009, and continued primarily relying on 
Bing searches after 2015. 
 
The Google search engine was founded with key seed capital funding in 1994 from the 
Digital Library Initiative, a multi-agency program of the US National Science 
Foundation with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Department 
"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency" (DARPA) program.  The Google 
founders reported to intelligence research program leaders until 1998 when Google 
was incorporated.  (Nafeez Ahmed, How the CIA Made Google: Inside the Secret 
Network, Blacklisted News, 23 January 2015.) 
 
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Facebook was founded with primary seed capital funding of $13 million USD in 2004 
from the CIA firm In-Q-Tel, through the National Venture Capital Association:  The CIA 
founded the firm "In-Q-Tel" in 1999 to develop and fund new technologies which 
could provide "data mining" for government intelligence agencies.  The CIA announced 
on its official website that "In-Q-Tel's mission is to network extensively with those in 
industry, the venture capital community and any others who are at the forefront of 
IT innovation."  (Investigate Daily, Is Facebook the New 'Big Brother'?, 30 September 
2011;  Natural News, Facebook, the CIA, DARPA, and the Tanking IPO, 21 August 
2012.) 
 
Facebook acquired the Instagram social media platform in April 2012, and acquired 
the WhatsApp messaging and calling platform in February 2014. 
 
Since 1948 the US Information and Educational Exchange Act (P.L. 80-402) prohibited 
governmental information operations ("info-war") and psychological operations ("psy-
ops") by the US State Department from being directed at Americans domestically.  It 
required that such propaganda "shall not be disseminated within the United States" 
(501(a)), and prohibited the State Department from dominating or monopolizing any 
"medium of information" (1462).  (Business Insider, NDAA Legalizes Use of 
Propaganda on the US Public, 21 May 2012.) 
 
However, the US National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of January 2013 included 
a "Modernization Act" (1078(a)) repealing the 1948 anti-propaganda law.  This 
authorized the State Department to manufacture false news directed at influencing 
domestic audiences, and allowed establishment "news" networks to broadcast all false 
government propaganda as supposed "facts".  (Foreign Policy, U.S. Repeals 
Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News, 14 July 2013.)   
 
Explaining the "Defense" aspect of this government program, and revealing how it 
directly leads to mass censorship, the Washington Post reported that "the military is 
more focused on manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social 
media" (Washington Post, Somali American Caught Up in Shadowy Pentagon 
Counterpropaganda Campaign, 07 July 2013). 
 
Official top-secret internal training documents leaked from the NSA, verified by 
journalists of the mainstream UK newspaper The Guardian, prove systemic 
government data "collection directly from the servers" of the major internet services, 
which are members of the NSA "PRISM" program.  Microsoft (with Bing search engine) 
joined in 2007, followed by Yahoo (with search engine) in 2008, Google (search 
engine), Facebook (social media) and PalTalk (communications) in 2009, YouTube 
(video search engine) in 2010, America Online "AOL" (with search engine) and Skype 
(communications) in 2011, and Apple in 2012.  (The Guardian, NSA Prism Program 
Taps In to User Data of Google and Others, 07 June 2013.) 
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During only the short 10 years since Google search engine was developed, such close 
collaboration between the "tech giant" mega-corporations and national security 
agencies rapidly expanded from mass-surveillance, reaching into the much more 
intrusive sphere of mass-censorship: 
 
The US National Science Foundation provided federal funding for creation of a 
government sponsored "Truthy" database at Indiana University in 2014.  The system is 
to be used as a web engine for monitoring and flagging "suspicious" content of 
supposedly "false and misleading ideas".  It was designed as a "web service" for 
connecting to social media platforms like Twitter, automating censorship of 
independent information under the euphemism of "mitigating the diffusion" of 
flagged content.  (Washington Free Beacon, Feds Creating Database to Track 'Hate 
Speech' on Twitter, 25 August 2014.) 
 
Facebook chats were discovered in 2015 to be systemically scanned and data-mined 
by the internet security company "Recorded Future", which was created in 2009 and 
funded by Google Ventures together with the CIA.  Its automated system scans "to 
identify actors and emerging threat indicators".  Beyond the privacy issue, such 
identification actually provides the essential framework for targeted censorship of 
dissenting viewpoints.  (NewsMax, Facebook Chats Being Scanned by CIA-Backed Firm, 
15 April 2015.) 
 
An Orwellian "Ministry of Truth"  straight from the predictive warning novel "1984" 
by George Orwell  was actually created by the US National Defense Authorization Act 
(NDAA) of December 2016.   
 
This new NDAA legislation included a "Countering Disinformation and Propaganda 
Act", originally called the "Countering Information Warfare Act" (H.R.5181, S.2692).  
The Act created a "Global Engagement Center" under the US State Department, 
operated with the Broadcasting Board of Governors and other agencies.  The new 
agency was created to "develop and disseminate" supposedly "fact-based narratives" 
to counter all alternative viewpoints which do not conform to state-sanctioned 
establishment "narratives", enabling censorship by labeling independent information 
as "foreign disinformation".  (Zero Hedge, Senate Quietly Passes 'Countering 
Disinformation and Propaganda Act', 12 December 2016.) 
 
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The official public statement announcing the Global Engagement Center claimed the 
need for a "single governmental agency" to implement "whole-of-government 
strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation".  The statement 
admitted its agenda to "influence key audiences and populations", through "an inter-
agency center to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts", including 
through federal grant programs to influence NGO's and think tanks to promote the 
government's determination of what is labeled "false narratives".  (Press Release, 
Senate Passes Major Counter-Propaganda Bill, Office of Senator Robert Portman, 08 
December 2016.) 
 
In one key event that a British journalist noted "was hardly even reported" by 
mainstream media, in September 2016 the German Chancellor Merkel was 
accidentally recorded on a "hot mic" (microphone left on) asking Facebook's founder 
and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to censor "anti-immigration" posts criticizing the dangers of 
the globalist open-borders agenda, and he assured her that Facebook was working on 
it.   
 
A short four months later in January 2016, Facebook rolled out its so-called "Initiative 
for Civil Courage Online" as a crack-down labeling and censoring all expression of 
legitimate security concerns as supposed "hate speech", vaguely and loosely defined 
as any form of "xenophobia", effectively meaning any criticism of the globalist policy.  
(Gatestone Institute, Facebook's War on Freedom of Speech, International Policy 
Council, 05 February 2016.) 
 
Mirroring such state-sponsored censorship programs in the United States and 
Germany, the United Kingdom government has directly and officially asked Google, 
Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft to "police their platforms", under the pretense of 
suppressing "fake news" which might include "extremist content".  (The Guardian, 
Google to Display Fact-Checking Labels if News is True or False, 07 April 2017.) 
 
 
 
 
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Censorship as an Assault Against Civilization 
 
The only legitimate role of search engines is to provide relevant search results, to 
facilitate public access to information.  The only legitimate role of social media 
platforms is to facilitate public access to communications.   
 
By restricting access by censorship to impose and enforce only state-sanctioned 
mainstream narratives, service providers abandon that essential function, thereby 
destroying the sole justification for their own existence.  This is the same as for 
journalists and news media, who also have no authority to be censors, but only to 
report on factual information describing different sides of notable events, enabling the 
general public to form their own informed opinions. 
 
Search engines and social media content carriers have no legal nor moral authority to 
be self-appointed censors, nor to be self-proclaimed arbiters of Fact or Truth.  
Moreover, they have no professional qualifications to usurp any such role.   
 
Throughout all of human history since the beginning of time, it has been the exclusive 
domain of the independent Judiciary profession, relying upon and closely backed by 
free and independent Academia of classical scholarship, to be the "finders of fact". 
 
Since ancient times, the most fundamental principle  the "scientific method" of the 
legal world  for determining reliable Fact and establishing real Truth was the 
"adversarial process", which strictly requires full and fair representation of all sides of 
each issue or matter in question.  Indeed, the adversarial process, which came to us 
through Roman law, Canon law and later Common law, is the very foundation of the 
Legal profession and all Judiciary practice.   
 
This timeless and universal doctrine of law is abundantly clear:  Without the freedom 
of expression and full consideration of opposing viewpoints, there cannot be any 
finding of Fact, and there cannot be any determination of Truth.  Even High Court 
Judgments traditionally publish the minority opinions of their dissenting Judges, 
preserving them as important and valuable, as those dissenting opinions often become 
the basis for later Judgments of better established law. 
 
Every time in history when corporations assumed the role of arbiters of "fact" by 
filtering subjective "truth", it was Fascism.  Every time governments assumed this 
same role, it was totalitarian Dictatorship.  Every time the people were forced to 
comply with or be confined to mandatory state-sanctioned beliefs and opinions, it was 
the basis for Feudalism.  In all such cases in modern history, at least to some degree, 
this fascist dictatorship of neo-feudalism inevitably led to Martial Law, Slavery or even 
Genocide. 
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Now, with this new censorship imposed by stealth, as a hostile takeover of the primary 
flow of information and communications worldwide, the professions which are the 
essential pillars of civilization can no longer rely on the establishment channels of 
access to information: 
 
Academics can no longer conduct scholarly research, and Scientists cannot conduct 
scientific research, with any confidence that they have access to all relevant facts 
considering all points of view.  A whole generation of scholars is being sabotaged; 
 
Lawyers can no longer develop cases representing clients, and Judges cannot 
adjudicate those cases, with any confidence in finding all relevant verifiable facts 
representing all sides to be considered for the Truth to be established.  A whole 
generation of jurists is being sabotaged. 
 
As a direct consequence, this new censorship has already become a full-scale assault 
against all Academia, Science, Law and Justice, directly attacking the very pillars of 
civilization.   
 
Even the principle that "Justice must not only be done, but also seen to be done" is 
wholly undermined, as even the press release for any Court Judgment which does not 
fit the mainstream propaganda narrative, together with the Judgment itself, can be 
arbitrarily "disappeared into the memory hole" of the Internet by a globalist 
corporation, never to be found nor seen by the general public. 
 
This censorship is thus a highly aggressive, offensive and direct attack against all 
human knowledge, and against the very foundations of the Legal system and Judiciary 
system as a whole, which the general public rely upon to uphold the Rule of Law as the 
cornerstone of civilization. 
 
If left unchecked, if not strongly countered by the righteous indignation and active 
resistance of "We The People", this new censorship will lead to nothing less than the 
destruction of civilization, and the sabotage of the human condition, by the wholesale 
dismantling of all basic human rights, all through the strategic suppression of the most 
fundamental human right to Freedom of Speech. 
 
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Also noteworthy, is this perspective explained by the British journalist Douglas Murray:  
"The sinister reality of a society in which the expression of majority opinion is being 
turned into a crime has already been seen across Europe.   In lieu of violence, speech 
is one of the best ways for people to vent their feelings and frustrations.  Remove the 
right to speak about your frustrations, and only violence is left.  The lid is being put on 
the pressure cooker at precisely the moment that the heat is being turned up."  
(Gatestone Institute, Facebook's War on Freedom of Speech, International Policy 
Council, 05 February 2016.) 
 
 
 
Search Engine Anti-Censorship Alternatives 
 
Many of the search engines which are promoted as "alternative" to Google (such as 
StartPage and Dogpile) are only designed to address privacy issues, but do not 
effectively avoid censorship, as they still rely on collecting results primarily from 
Google, sometimes adding only the few other establishment search engines.  
Therefore, it was necessary to test and develop a list of the most reliable independent 
search engines as effective anti-censorship alternatives. 
 
"DuckDuckGo" Diversified Search 
www.duckduckgo.com 
 
DuckDuckGo at first appears focused more on privacy, without a declared policy or 
strategy of avoiding censorship, other than including more alternative sources.  
However, it has its own search algorithms, and does not rely only on establishment 
search engines, providing greater diversity of content.  Many search results censored 
by Google appear fairly highly ranked on the first 1-2 results pages, due to faithful 
prioritizing of the relevance of actual search terms without filtering. 
 
DuckDuckGo produces an initial results list with about 30% more pages found than on 
the same Google search, each of which has a "More Results" link to reveal even more 
related pages from the same organization, site or specific topic.  The only disadvantage 
to this larger volume of search results is the need to sometimes scroll through many 
pages to find those results which are censored by Google. 
 
DuckDuckGo is Based in England.  It has mobile Apps for both iPhone and Android.  Its 
search bar includes the auto-suggestions feature.  It allows to select a user interface in 
almost every language, saved in settings, making it perfect for institutional use with a 
multinational staff.  It is good for both general research and following current events. 
 
 
 
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"Qwant" Unbiased Search 
www.qwant.com 
 
Qwant is named for searching a large "quantity" of data to find what you "want".  It 
assures of un-censored content with "impartiality" of "unbiased results", "without any 
discrimination", and its "sorting algorithms are applied equally" for a "panoramic 
search".  It declares that "Everybody can face ideas that are not theirs, which is 
healthier for democracy.  And all companies have a chance to be known, thanks to 
their actual merits."  Privacy is ensured by means of "encrypted queries".   
 
Qwant is based in France, and is funded by display ads on the results page, which 
appear only as a direct result of the search terms used in that particular query, 
without any tracking.  It has mobile Apps for both iPhone and Android. 
 
Qwant allows to select a user interface in many Western and Eastern European 
languages, saved in settings, which makes it helpful for institutional use with an 
international staff.  It is excellent for general or in-depth research, as well as following 
current events. 
 
Qwant also provides an uncensored social media function called "Boards", for posting 
and following users sharing messages and web links, as an alternative to Facebook and 
Twitter. 
 
"UnBubble" Independent Search 
www.unbubble.eu 
 
UnBubble is named after the concept of avoiding censorship by breaking out of the 
"bubble" of filtered search results, and declares it is "all about privacy and neutral 
information" with "search neutrality".  Its algorithm collects results from "a diversity 
of data sources", giving higher ranking to independent "sources covering the whole 
story of a topic", specifically intended to help "researchers".  UnBubble is based in 
Germany. 
 
UnBubble allows to select a user interface in a few European languages, saved in 
settings.  Its search bar includes the auto-suggestions feature.  Search results are 
labeled with the source search engine for transparency, but tend to display with 
outdated excerpts, and do not seem to include new sites or pages from the recent 3-6 
months.  It is thus good for in-depth research of specialized topics, but not helpful for 
following current events. 
 
 
 
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"Good Gopher" Uncensored Search 
www.goodgopher.com 
 
Good Gopher is a specialized search engine for researchers, specifically to avoid 
censorship, featuring focused searches from "independent media" and "academia" 
sources, providing "independent news and information".  It declares that it 
"completely bypasses the systemic censorship of the truth that is currently undertaken 
by sources of corporate-controlled disinformation."  Good Gopher is founded by the 
non-profit Natural News, based in the United States.   
 
Good Gopher provides narrow search categories which are limited to either 
alternative news (for real information), mainstream news (for comparison), academia, 
or products related to news topics, so it is best for following current events, but less 
helpful for general research. 
 
 
Video Service Anti-Censorship Alternatives 
 
Video services like YouTube are also an important source of information, serving as 
search engines to discover content from researchers, analysts, commentators, and 
alternative news outlets.  Such videos are often helpful as a starting point for research, 
providing an overview of the spectrum of different viewpoints on any topic, often 
revealing leads and references to reliable sources of factual information.  Therefore, it 
is also necessary to avoid censorship on video platforms, and to actively use only 
uncensored video search services. 
 
"Minds" Video & Social Media Platform 
www.minds.com 
 
Minds is an "open source" hybrid video service and social media platform, which calls 
its users to "Take Back Your Internet Freedom" and exercise "Free Speech" through 
this "decentralization hub".  It is "designed to give you as much control and ownership 
over your social media world as possible, and encourage you to express yourself 
freely".  It thus refuses to censor content, and generally will only remove content 
which is illegal (including unlawful defamation), promotes illegal activity, or is unlawful 
"harassment" basically defined as "stalking", "threats", "doxing" violating privacy 
rights, or inciting violence. 
 
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Minds provides "channels" as hybrid video blogs for all types of content media, which 
are given additional exposure by integrated social media groups and chat functions, 
further enhanced by a "Newsfeed" function.  It offers programs to "monetize your 
blog" with "ad revenue" to support content providers.  It also offers a "paid 
subscriptions" function which includes "exclusive content" for subscribers.   
 
Minds further "rewards you for your activity online with revenue", providing enhanced 
revenue generating options including "Peer-to-Peer Boost" for sharing content with 
other channels to earn monetization "points", also allowing to earn points for 
receiving comments, new subscribers, "up votes", and publishing media content or 
blogs.  It additionally has a "Wire" function to send monetization points, dollars or 
Bitcoin to "sponsor creators", or even to "reward fans". 
 
Minds is based in Connecticut in the United States, and currently has over 2 million 
monthly users.  It also has iPhone and Android mobile Apps. 
 
"Vidme" Video Platform 
https://vid.me 
 
Vidme is a "collaborative community" of "content creators", designed to serve as the 
"most creator-friendly video community".  It boldly disclaims that users "may be 
exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable", and declares that it "will not 
censor or edit the content".  It provides a special one-click "transfer from YouTube" 
function, and tools to connect with social media platforms to promote content. 
 
Vidme provides "channels", with video monetization by displayed advertisements and 
"paid subscription" options, and allows "exclusive videos" accessible only to paid 
subscribers.  It has additional "fan patronage" features for "paid tips" from viewers, 
who are rewarded as the "biggest tippers get the most visibility" on the platform. 
 
Vidme is based in Los Angeles California, and currently has over 25 million visitors 
monthly.  It also has iPhone and Android mobile Apps. 
 
"Daily Motion" Video Platform 
www.dailymotion.com 
 
Daily Motion is a YouTube alternative allowing to freely "discover content you love 
from around the world", to "share events and ideas that keep the world diverse", 
"where video-makers are free to share their world and connect with a passionate 
audience", with "the visibility they need".  It refuses to censor content, essentially 
prohibiting only illegal material, incitement of illegal acts, unlawful defamation, and 
obscene or sexually explicit content. 
 
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Daily Motion provides "channels" with branding and customization options.  It offers 
advertising programs combined with "video monetization", empowering content 
providers to generate revenues.  It also has features for "paid content" subscriptions 
and "website monetization". 
 
Daily Motion is a French company based in Paris, with operations in New York, and 
currently has over 300 million users.  It also has iPhone, Android and Windows phone 
mobile Apps. 
 
Note: Daily Motion video hosting directly supports monetization on the Patreon 
platform (see description below) by embedding the URL link in Patreon posts. 
 
"Vimeo" Video Platform 
www.vimeo.com 
 
Vimeo was created by a "community of filmmakers", and features a robust "category" 
of "Reporting & Journalism" channels to promote free and independent alternative 
news.  It's Policy Guidelines state that moderators "generally remove" videos 
containing "derogatory or inflammatory statements" which appear "malicious" or 
intended to "attack a particular group".  However, Vimeo assures that users can "post 
videos that criticize or disapprove of people and events", and only "need to be 
respectful and not cross the line that separates criticism from abuse". 
 
Vimeo provides "channels" which are given additional exposure by "categories".  It 
offers advertising programs combined with video monetization for content providers 
to generate revenues.  It also offers a paid "video on demand" function. 
 
Vimeo is based in New York, and currently has over 170 million viewers and 50 million 
content creators among its users.  It also has excellent "embedding" to display videos 
on websites, and has iPhone and Android mobile Apps. 
 
Note: Vimeo video hosting directly supports monetization on the Patreon platform 
(see description below) by embedding the URL link in Patreon posts. 
 
 
 
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"Patreon" Monetization Platform 
www.patreon.com 
 
Note: Patreon does not directly host videos, but relies on posting URL links to a video 
from various supported services, which include Daily Motion and Vimeo.  It is thus 
used to "embed" videos into "Posts" to one's "Creator Page" on this membership and 
monetization platform. 
 
Patreon primarily counters censorship by serving as an alternative monetization 
platform for content creators.  It rejects censorship of content, and assures that "we 
do not screen any content".  It is dedicated to "allowing for different and even 
conflicting points of view", for "people to be able to express themselves, be critical, 
and discuss controversial issues", and recognizes that "harsh criticism is an 
appropriate part of free debate".  Patreon only prohibits "hate speech" narrowly 
defined as "serious attacks on people" based on discrimination, essentially involving 
"harassment", "threats" or incitement of "violence". 
 
Patreon provides "Creator Pages", informally called "channels", which are given 
additional exposure by "categories".  It is a full-spectrum monetization platform, 
named after the timeless tradition of "Patronage" empowering content creators to be 
supported by stable monthly subscriptions from "Patrons", developing and growing 
their creative work as a full-time "membership business".  It is designed for all types of 
creators, including video producers, writers, researchers, educators, artists, musicians, 
or entertainers. 
 
Patreon is based in San Francisco, California, and currently has over 50,000 content 
creators among its users.  It also has iPhone and Android mobile Apps. 
 
 
 
 
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Social Media Anti-Censorship Alternatives 
 
Social media services like Facebook and Twitter are essential channels of 
communication, which are essential to sharing factual information from free and 
independent research and alternative media outlets.  Such communication platforms 
serve as community-based group collaboration channels, which are often helpful to 
alert rights advocates and researchers about key evidence of facts or points of law 
advancing a humanitarian cause.  Therefore, it is also necessary to avoid censorship on 
social media platforms, and to actively use only uncensored social media services. 
 
"Minds" Social Media & Video Platform 
www.minds.com 
 
Minds is an "open source" hybrid social media platform and video service, which calls 
its users to "Take Back Your Internet Freedom" and exercise "Free Speech" through 
this "decentralization hub".  (See description above) 
 
"Seen Life" Social Media Platform 
https://seen.life 
 
Seen Life was designed as a Facebook alternative, and declares "It's good to be free 
We're building the future together and we still have the freedom to share our 
opinions without fear of censorship.   We're not going to censor things about what 
you believe in".  It does prohibit content which is "abusive", "defamatory" or "invasive 
of privacy", or which "promotes discrimination [and] hatred against any individual or 
group", in the context of its assurances against censorship of opinions and beliefs.  
 
Seen Life is also suitable as a LinkedIn alternative, because unlike Facebook it does not 
ban commercial activity or a primary business focus from personal profile pages, not 
requiring commercial uses to be placed on separate "company" pages.  It also allows 
the lawful and non-misleading use of one's professional pseudonym or public trade 
name, which Facebook prohibits and intrusively collects multiple official ID cards to 
prove one's private name. 
 
In response to Facebook's artificial limitations on exposure of posts, a function closely 
related to censorship:  "With Seen, there's no limit to how big you can grow  We're 
not going to limit messaging to your friends".  Replacing Facebook Messenger, Seen 
also provides "your own chat room" for "live chat" with free internet voice calling. 
 
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Seen Life is operated by administrators of the sister company independent media 
outlet Before Its News, and is affiliated with the encrypted email and secure 
messaging and audio-video calling service Unseen.is, which hosts encrypted privacy 
servers in Iceland.  Both affiliates are highly appropriate, relevant and well suited to 
effectively supporting an anti-censorship site.  Seen is based in Mill Valley California, 
and currently has over 33,000 monthly visitors among its users. 
 
"Gab" Social Media Platform 
https://gab.ai 
 
Gab was designed as a Twitter alternative, and defines itself as "an ad-free social 
network for creators who believe in free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of 
information online."  It declares a policy of inclusiveness with social equality:  
"Everybody is welcome on Gab.  Our mission is to defend free speech and expression 
on the internet for all."  "Gab treats all people with respect and dignity, regardless of 
their background, origins and point of view." 
 
"Gab's mission is to put people and free speech first  However, we do take steps to 
protect ourselves and our users from illegal activity  Gab's policy is to follow all 
applicable laws in the United States and the Supreme Court's rulings on free 
speech and expression." 
 
Eliminating any basis for subjective complaints, Gab provides all users with tools for 
voluntary self-filtering:  "We believe that the only valid form of censorship is an 
individual's own choice to opt-out.  Gab empowers users to filter and remove 
unwanted followers, words, phrases, and topics they do not want to see in their 
feeds". 
 
Modeled after the functions of Twitter, Gab enables users to share "micro-blog" posts, 
which can contain videos, photos and links to articles.  Instead of Twitter's very limited 
posts of only 140 characters, Gab posts allow 300 characters for more meaningful 
communication of ideas with more intellectual substance. 
 
Gab is based in Austin Texas, and currently has over 140,000 users since its launch only 
last year.  It also has an Android mobile App. 
 
 
 
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"Diaspora" Social Media Platform 
www.diasporafoundation.org / www.joindiaspora.com 
 
Diaspora is an open-source social media platform, notably featuring "social network 
integration" with "cross-posting" to mainstream services, including Facebook and 
Twitter.   
 
When it was launched in 2011, the developers noted that while "managed by the 
Diaspora Foundation", a part of the Software Freedom Law Center, the system is not 
owned by any one person or entity:  "Our distributed design means no big corporation 
will ever control Diaspora", so it "will never sell your social life to advertisers, and you 
won't have to conform to someone's arbitrary rules or look over your shoulder before 
you speak." 
 
Named by the Greek word meaning a scattered or dispersed population, Diaspora 
defines itself as "The online social world where you are in control", because its primary 
anti-censorship strategy is "decentralization":  "Instead of everyone's data being held 
on huge central servers", Diaspora uses "independently run servers ('Pods') all over 
the world", emphasizing that "you own your data".   
 
Diaspora only prohibits content that is "defamatory, fraudulent illegal or unlawful", 
or "could interfere with, disrupt or inhibit other users" from using the service.  The 
service managers are only able to block any unlawful content with the approval of the 
independent "Pod" server administrators, functioning as checks and balances against 
any arbitrary, subjective or political censorship. 
 
Diaspora features a practical function of categories, called "Aspects", to "organize your 
contacts according to their role in your life", enabling users to "choose your audience", 
by sharing each post only with one or more Aspect groups of contacts, "knowing that 
no one you don't want will be able to see what you post."  It also allows to "post to 
your profiles on other major social [media] services", to "keep in touch" with contacts 
who are not yet using Diaspora. 
 
Unlike Facebook, but like several of the uncensored social media services, Diaspora 
also allows the lawful and non-misleading use of one's professional pseudonym or 
public trade name. 
 
Diaspora is based in Esslingen Germany, and started with 180,000 users during the 
first year of its launch in 2011, which grew to over 2.1 million users by 2013, although 
estimates of what must be even larger numbers are prevented by its decentralization. 
 
 
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Free Use of Mobile Anti-Censorship Services 
 
The tech-giant mega-corporations dominating the Internet have not stopped at rolling 
out mass-censorship against basic human rights of Freedom of Speech worldwide.  
They also have begun censorship of the uncensored services, using censorship 
attempting to coerce even alternative services into imposing the same censorship.  In 
addition to burying or blocking alternative platforms on the dominant search engines, 
this is also accomplished by banning the mobile Apps of uncensored services from 
mobile smartphones: 
 
The Apple "App Store" (iPhone) in December 2016 rejected the App for the popular 
social media Twitter alternative "Gab.ai", claiming it "includes pornographic content" 
posted by some users, by not censoring such content  despite the fact that Twitter 
often features the same type of user-generated content.  (The Daily Caller, Google Play 
Bans Twitter Alternative Gab.ai App Over 'Hate Speech', 17 August 2017.) 
 
Apple rejected Gab.ai from its App Store a second time in January 2017, this time 
stating the real reason of subjective discrimination against "objectionable content"  
essentially a euphemism for any anti-globalist or populist Free Speech.  The Apple 
email notice claimed "Your app includes content that could be considered defamatory 
or mean-spirited", only because of mere "references to targeted groups that could 
be offensive"  Apple's version of Google's highly subjective 'Hate Speech' rule. 
 
Gab CEO Andrew Torba summarized:  "Apple is asking Gab to censor 'objectionable 
content' while allowing this same content to exist in much higher volumes on every 
major social channel", revealing political double standards that Apple does not apply 
to other social networks.  Gab insisted that "We refuse to cater to corporate 
censorship and will defend free speech at all costs".  (Inc. Magazine, Rejected Again by 
Apple, Gab Says It's a Victim of Bias, 23 January 2017.) 
 
The Google "Play Store" (Android) in August 2017 "suspended and removed" the App 
for "Gab.ai", claiming  without any facts or evidence  that it allegedly "violates the 
hate speech policy".  Google issued a public statement that social media Apps on its 
Play Store "need to demonstrate a sufficient level of moderation", thus openly 
admitting that its policy is now to censor all Apps which refuse to "moderate" content 
to impose the same type of censorship. 
 
In response, Gab distributed a URL link for Android users to download the Gab App 
directly from any web browser on their phone, without need for the Google Play Store 
(Link Here), saying "Google can't stop this".  Gab reaffirmed that it is "not going to 
police what is hate speech and what isn't".  (The Verge, Google Removes Gab App for 
Violating 'Hate Speech' Policy, 18 August 2017) 
 
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Google banned the App only a few days after Gab publicly offered a job to the Google 
engineer who was recently fired for daring to express an alternative viewpoint, 
apparently in retaliation.  The ban also came just a few days after Gab quickly raised 
over $1.0 million USD in crowd-funding, apparently as economic censorship.  (Business 
Insider, Google's App Store has Banned Gab for 'Hate Speech', 18 August 2017.) 
 
Solution for Service Providers  All free and independent alternative service providers 
must not rely on "App Store" approval and distribution on smartphones, but should 
provide open access to their mobile Apps by direct download from their own websites, 
together with any needed instructions or supporting installation tools. 
 
Solutions for Mobile Users  All mobile Apps for search engines, video sand social 
media platforms are simply interfaces to the websites of such services.  While the 
websites can be hidden from searches, and Apps can be banned from mobile phones, 
nothing can stop alternative methods of direct access to websites which the user 
already knows. 
 
Therefore, for mobile phone users, there are two ways to have convenient mobile 
access to all of your favorite uncensored alternative service platforms, based on direct 
access to their known websites. 
 
(A) Use Web Browser Bookmarks  All web browsers have a function to save website 
URL links as "bookmarks" or "favorites", and allow saving bookmarks into folders.  
Simply visit the website of each uncensored service, save as a bookmark, create a 
folder labeled "Un-Censored", and save those bookmarks into that folder.  The 
bookmark folder will then serve as a personal "control panel" to access those 
platforms.  Most browsers can be set to save the login and passwords after the first 
login to each site.  
 
(B) Create Home Page Icon Links  Smartphone navigation is generally by means of 
icons placed on the home page screens, and such icons are basically links to an App or 
a website.  Most users prefer this convenience of visual navigation by icons, instead of 
opening a browser and finding a folder of bookmarks.  This function is the primary 
reason for the popularity mobile Apps.  Fortunately, users can manually create icons 
which directly link to the website of each alternative service. 
 
On iPhone:  (1) Open the phone's "Safari" web browser; (2) Enter the website in the 
address bar and press "Go" or "Enter", and wait for the website to load; (3) Press the 
middle button in the bottom navigation bar, which appears as an arrow pointing out of 
a box; (4) Press "Add to Home Screen"; (5) Enter a name for the icon shortcut, and 
then press "Add". 
 
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On Android:  (1) Open the phone's "Android" or "Chrome" web browser; (2) Enter the 
website in the address bar and press "Go" or "Enter", and wait for the website to load; 
(3) In Android browser, press the Bookmark button, then under "Add to" select "Home 
Screen" from the drop-down list; In Chrome, press the Menu button next to the 
address bar, then select "Add to Home Screen". 
 
 
Independent News Uncensored Alternatives 
 
Finally, this presentation of a working system for direct and open access to a free and 
independent Internet, by avoiding censorship, could not be complete without 
addressing the sources of alternative news media content which are the ultimate 
targets of such censorship. 
 
The following is a partial list of prominent media news outlets which are more 
balanced, alternative or otherwise uncensored, which seem to be the most practical 
and reliable for independent factual research.  Most news information from a 
multitude of diverse alternative media is generally reported in these primary outlets. 
 
These websites were selected for consistently providing source references meeting 
international academic standards, and also for being credible publications suitable for 
quoting as source references in research, official or institutional materials. 
 
The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)  United Kingdom, international news, 
generally covers all the mainstream news topics with establishment narratives, but 
often features ground-breaking anti-globalist exposs providing factual evidence; 
 
The Daily Mail (www.dailymail.co.uk)  United Kingdom, international news, generally 
mainstream news with establishment narratives, but often covers independent media 
topics providing factual evidence supporting anti-globalist research points; 
 
World Net Daily (www.wnd.com)  Washington DC, international news, broad-
spectrum reporting of facts with penetrating analysis of geopolitical events; 
 
The Daily Caller (www.dailycaller.com)  Washington DC, international news, broad-
spectrum reporting of facts and events of strategic geopolitical significance; 
 
21st Century Wire (www.21stcenturywire.com)  USA and EU based, geopolitical news, 
diverse coverage of independent media news reports with facts and sources; 
 
The New American (www.thenewamerican.com)   USA based, international news, 
general news coverage inclusive of independent and alternative perspectives; 
 
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The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)  United Kingdom, geopolitical news; 
general news coverage inclusive of independent and alternative perspectives; 
 
Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)  USA and UK based, international news, 
general news coverage inclusive of independent media news topics and perspectives; 
 
NewsMax (www.newsmax.com)  Florida USA, international news and analysis, 
general news coverage inclusive of independent media news topics and perspectives; 
 
Global Research (http://globalresearch.org)  Canada, geopolitical news and analysis, 
broad-spectrum reporting of facts and sources, with exposs and in-depth research; 
 
Zero Hedge (www.zerohedge.com)  Economic and political analysis of geopolitics, 
with frequent penetrating anti-globalist exposs, providing detailed facts and sources; 
 
This list of news outlets is not exclusive of other sources, and is not an official 
endorsement of particular outlets, but is provided as practical recommendations for 
convenience of reliable access to credible independent resources. 
 
 
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Administration of the Directional Secretariat 
Council on Alternative Policy Studies (CAPS) 
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21 August 2017