I am on a detox program right now and am too exhausted to write any more than simply to copy this. Every post I make on this laptop or on any system is fraught with so much interference the energy required to think and type is weighted down so much---(hacking, malware blocking keyboard function, excessive attacks on my brain/nervous system while I type blocking cognitive function and enhancing hyperbolic hate emotional excess plus subliminals which I repeat--all designed to slow me down, discredit me). This is an example of how obtrusive and anti-everything that freedom represents this tech is being exploited by people like those mentioned below. Paid for in full by members of Congress, some of whom are trying to force a kind of covert slavery upon me at this very time. I keep fighting but I am exhausted.
The article is one tiny and incremental step forward in the struggle that I have become entangled in. So many people want a violent and fascist overtake of the country and of the world they simply only applaud those who use these technologies and exhibit the most primitive and brutal tactics in quelling and disarming and destroying and exploiting and raping and robbing....as far as I can see, that is mostly what this technology has been used for thus far. Don't forget murder and covert assassinations.
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*30 minutes later. Thoughts rushed back into my consciousness which were suppressed, and indeed hindered by the hacking/mind control exertion on my brain and body--I "forgot" to mention that with all the discrediting tactics and weapons used against me, the predominant one is drugging and poisoning. As I wrote in this last past month, the terrorists have continued to force deadly poisoning upon my body via insertion into a lower body cavity while I was in deep unconscious sleep mode (being teleported). They kept horrific stinking laboratory poisons and drugs being pumped into my digestive tract so the poisons bloat and coagulate and then harden into an internal shell--blocking viscerae function and retaining neural inhibitors embedded in the drugs. My body has been bloated for at least 3 decades to a degree that it sags and hangs off my body and nothing I ever did got rid of it. It constricted muscles to keep the poisons in my body. Now, with all that inside my body, plus the other factors, I was given a precise dose of the poison to keep me appearing seminally functional but most important cognitive functions were suppressed. Unbeknownst to me since I have been poisoned via food given me all my life by my family and onwards up until I began to monitor and protect my food, and then they just inserted the poison into the other end of my digestive tract but the effect was almost the same as the poison being poured into my food. The appearance of functionality plus all the amphetamines that also have been put in my body made me appear almost hyperactive and then withdrawn (I could not go out after dark, somehow the poisons bloated with a change in humidity or barometric pressure as the poisons expand or seem to like a tide coming in and out from dusk to dawn. I have been imprisoned in this manner for at least 30 years or much longer.
I wrote above that all I have ever seen of the misuse and misappropriation of these technologies and drugs is of maladaptive purposes: theft, rape, torture, abuse, exploitation, etc all the nasty things. When I look at the absolute joy that the people being handed these technologies have when they are able to apply all of this to their lives, I can only imagine the obverse applications for their personal endowment. I think none of them has to worry about their thoughts being stolen or controlled, as they are already so brainwashed and seem to complacent to having external control telling them what to do, plus the millions and billions of dollars being poured into their personal coffers for their lead roles, projects, political enhancements and etc gives them no warning signals ever to be worried about the misapplication of mind control technologies. I imagine they are working hard to force people into being drugged and brain-blown into giving them fellatio while they are being told internally that they are deeply "in love" with someone they don't know or would like if they actually knew them. I am using a most offensive example, but essentially, when it comes to exploitation the dominant fascist male nasty sexual propensity inclines towards this kind of slavish pornographic exploit. Perhaps no one minds and everyone wants to be drugged and made to serve on bended knee to essentially what is the equivalent of a jerk-off who has been packaged as being some kind of romantic savior in the media.
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Otherwise, perusing the internet today I see a man who had been making 80 K per year along with his partner in a business that went bust for him personally because his partner stole all clients and stole all his money. He was left homeless, and bereft of all and like so many homeless, cannot get out of the situation. .He claims he is treated like he doesn't deserve anything--and probably most people want him dead when they see he is homeless.
I write about this as I have had years of experience to see that the very wealthy--now the richest man on the planet or near the highest--has been working to deprive me of ALL economic opportunities, leaving me on the brink of homelessness and not able to get out. Poisoning nearly to death (but murder was the goal I just saved my life on my own, with really no help, no warning and no support) but...this group of the very wealthy has been using this tech to ensure I have no recourse to any kind of solvency or stability as they threaten me continuously with homelessness and even worse conditions than I already encounter (daily filth poured into my body, food and home to poison me and too sick to clean even what should be cleaned much less the toxic filth endlessly being sprayed and poured into this room which I can't clean--the whole room is covered with brown goo muck sprayed on every single thing--literally--toxic and stinking and I have to breathe it in and can't perpetually clean and clean. But that is just another slow poisoning attempt that is ongoing.
Forced by their "system " into this situation, they can now call me what they all call the homeless, those who were discriminated against and did not "play the game" as they all have, or were just the wrong color, the wrong socioeconomic status, the wrong nationality, born in the wrong country--etc. They insult and threaten and abuse and steal every single thing and destroy all they can about me--every single day it goes on and on has been going on and on for decades, but heightened to murderous levels in the last 10 years when I began trying to save my life and detox (as they continuously, daily, put more deadly poisons into my body, blocked ALL economic stability so I could not afford to live in a place where I could nominally defend myself against all their invasive technologies (mechanical arms breaking through wall panels and nothing can block the openings in the walls--they made sure I can't do it, the walls crumble when I try to pound anything into them so I can't secure the panels or the walls structure (which was very cheaply made because this whole room has no real walls, it's a complete faux room with every kind of moving panel and crack that can be opened from every side, top-to-bottom of the room). So, now they can call me all kinds of disparaging names because I "did not make it" as they stole all I worked for claiming it as their own concept--for over a decade or longer, endless torture and grilling for ideas and drilling into my psyche to destroy me on every other level possible.
But as for "them" they are enhanced by it all. Apparently scheming and conniving and lying is the thought patterns they all employ so deep thought and consciousness probing is nothing they have to worry about. They are delighted to teleport people and have orgies or sexual forays while the target or fellow freak is in a drugged up, or their brain is put into hyper-sexualized mode (this is something that was done so I would appear "willing" while actually being date raped and drugged beforehand).
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I am writing very candidly but ONLY for the purpose of demonstrating how pernicious--evil--this technology is in the hands of such unscrupulous people. The celebrities have all risen up in rank, there are countless now faces who have in one way or another participated in this crime, all touted and enhanced by plastic surgery and millions upon millions of dollars to endlessly prop up their image and body appearance. All appear blank and void and null on a personality scale level to me--but this also is a generated social goal of blank conspicuous consumption and fashion carefully constructed to continuously sell off thoughtless sexualized empowerment--for women--and bold and dynamic fascism for the men. Rape culture endlessly upheld unless it's a minority who did something "wrong" to a fascist Nazi bigot and then they get penalized with endless publicity to nullify them.
I am just expanding on the theme of the article below--it's a warning, written in a style that delineates warning signals. I am getting into the nitty gritty that I have always been writing about--just to try to get people a chance to understand how "evil" and sick the people become when they have access to this tech and drugging. What I write only appears to draw more psychopath exploiters into the fold of obtaining access to these contracts and these technologies connected with this contract out on me.
That also is a very unfortunate aspect of a society lacking in any kind of real, in-depth moral fiber. Despite all the Christian zealots I have NEVER obtained any real defense or support from any of these groups or any of the other religious groups which shout to the high heavens about how righteous they are. They are concerned with their group and not much concerned about these types of moral issues like going against the types of people funding their coffers and donations and church funds and etc. It all is connected to money. The truly ugly and sick human factor is negated in this Time article and I think even the author herself could not have fathomed how disgusting people would react in our "developed" country or society become when they get access to almost unrestrained rape, torture and theft and murder capabilities, handled with covert white pristine gloves by the like of Musk as he is awarded the most money on the planet for helping to spread and amplify the misuse of these government-funded technologies because people need their lynch mob "system" and just Insurrections and Neo-Nazi marches and discriminatory practice is no longer adequate for all the attempts at equality and justice in our modern day Democracy--so called.
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After I wrote this last part above, hackers blocked my WiFi connection. The system shows that I am connected, but a command ping request shows that I am offline. They have been doing this routinely in the last week whenever I write anything poignant about this situation. I can't publish this last piece and I have also discovered that while I am writing this on my Wordpad function, that too gets deleted even when I "save" the writing.
complete censure at this point.
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We're Dangerously Close to Giving Big Tech Control Of Our Thoughts
Elon Musk has proclaimed himself to be a “free speech absolutist” though reports of the way employees of his companies have been treated when exercising their free speech rights to criticise him might indicate that his commitment to free speech has its limits. But as Musk’s bid to takeover Twitter progresses in fits and starts, the potential for anyone to access and control billions of opinions around the world for the right sum should focus all our minds on the need to protect an almost forgotten right—the right to freedom of thought.
In 1942 the U.S. Supreme Court wrote “Freedom to think is absolute of its own nature, the most tyrannical government is powerless to control the inward workings of the mind.” The assumption that getting inside our heads is a practical impossibility may have prevented lawyers and legislators from dwelling too much on putting in place regulation that protects our inner lives. But it has not stopped powerful people trying to access and control our minds for centuries.
At his trial for War Crimes in Nuremberg after the Second World War, Albert Speer, Hitler’s former Minister of Armaments, explaining the power of the Nazi’s propaganda machine said: “Through technical devices such as radio and loudspeaker 80 million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man…. Today the danger of being terrorized by technocracy threatens every country in the world.”
When whole communities are deprived of independent thought, it undermines their individual rights to freedom of thought and opinion. But it is not only a threat to the rights of the people who are manipulated. As the world saw with Nazi Germany, it becomes a threat to all our rights. Tragically, Speer’s warning is acutely resonant in the 21st-century as technology has been harnessed as an even more efficient tool for manipulation and control of the minds of populations with devastating consequences.
Facebook’s role in facilitating genocide in Myanmar, a country where the platform turned into a “beast” according to UN factfinders was a wake up call to the potential for social media profiling and targeting to twist people’s minds inciting deadly violence. Facebook committed to doing better, but as the events that played out across the world’s screens from the U.S. Capitol on 6 January last year and the ongoing ethnic violence in Ethiopia today show, their approach is hopelessly inadequate.
It is not just because of the enormous challenge of content moderation on a global platform, the business model of social media based on surveillance advertising facilitates the hijacking of user engagement to deadly effect. An investigation by the campaign group Global Witness last year showed that they were able to get inflammatory adverts approved on Facebook to target individuals in Northern Ireland across the sectarian divide at a time of heightened tensions. When propaganda can be automated, curated and targeted to reach billions worldwide for profit, it is an existential threat to humanity and one that none of us can afford to ignore.
It may have been Facebook in the frame for these incidences of violence, but a global platform like Twitter could be an equally powerful tool for manipulation on a massive scale as Donald Trump well knew. Twitter is valuable, not because of what you can say on the platform, but because of the billions of opinions you can control through the curation of individual news feeds.
Increasingly the purpose of technological innovations, whether in the online environment or using big data, artificial intelligence or neuroscience is, precisely, to access and control the inner workings of our minds. That is where the money is. Inferences drawn from huge pools of data about us are used to decide if we are susceptible to gambling or prone to conspiracy theories, if we are anxious or over-confident so that our vulnerabilities can be managed, sold and exploited. Our minds are a valuable commodity in both the commercial and the political spheres.
Technology is being developed not only to predict our political leanings from our faces, but also to identify our individual psychological buttons and to press them in ways that might make it more or less likely that you’ll get off the couch and go out and vote. The rise of “neuropolitics” and the use of political behavioural psychography in electoral processes around the world is problematic because it undermines the foundations of democracy, no matter who is paying for it or which way you vote.
The use of these tactics spans ideological divides but we when we are talking about mass mind control, the implications are so profound and devastating that the ends can never justify the means. Politics is always about influence and persuasion, but democracy relies on the votes of individuals who have formed their opinions free from manipulation. At a time when many of us get most, or all of our information online, we need to make sure that our minds cannot be easily hijacked and sold to the highest bidder. The Washington DC Attorney General’s recent move to sue Mark Zuckerberg personally for Facebook’s role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal may mark a shift in the right direction. Free flows of information allow us to form our opinions freely, we cannot afford to make one person the global gatekeeper to our minds, no matter how keen they may seem to be on freedom.
It’s not just about social media. Technologists have ambitions beyond the screens we stare at and the enthralling devices we have glued to our palms. Elon Musk’s Neuralink has its sights set on nothing less than direct access to our brains. It claims to be “designing the first neural implant that will let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go.” Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI’s) won’t just control the way we receive information, they will control how our minds meet the world.
When Facebook announced its own project to develop non-invasive BCI in 2017, it promised that it would only read the thoughts you wanted it to. In 2021, it shelved the project. Perhaps it realised direct access to the human mind was just a bridge to far. Reading our minds in real time is only a part of it, in 2019, neuroscientists published an experiment where, by implanting electrodes into the brains of mice they could make the animals see things that were simply not there. If you worry about deepfakes, imagine how much more dangerous they could be if they were not on your screen but actually in your head.
While brain implants for manipulative marketing or mind-reading may not sound too appealing, when dressed up as health tech, these tools suddenly become saleable. Musk has reportedly claimed that Neuralink could help control hormone levels and mood to our advantage. But if your hormone levels can be changed to alter your brain to your advantage, they may also be altered to the advantage of someone else if that was more profitable or politically expedient. And imagine if you had to upgrade your brain as often as your phone to deal with those tricky built-in downgrades depleting your battery and clogging up your memory just that bit faster with every new model….
Whether we are looking at the global management of information flows or the tiny threads of Neuralink’s brain-computer-interface pushing through our skulls, we need to wake up to the fundamental threat of systems that allow direct access to our minds en masse.
While freedom of speech can be limited in certain circumstances, the right to freedom of thought is absolute in international human rights law. It means that we have the right to keep our thoughts private, not to be penalized for our thoughts alone, and to keep our inner lives free from manipulation. We can no longer rely on the Supreme Court’s outdated assumption that no one can control the inward workings of our mind. Whether or not the claims are overblown, technology is already trading on its potential to do just that.
We need freedom of thought to combat climate change, racism and global poverty, and to fall in love, laugh and dream. It is crucial to the cultural, scientific, political and emotional life in our societies. Once we lose it we may never get it back. Musk’s takeover of Twitter combined with his ambitions for Neuralink make the threat of big tech to our freedom of thought impossible to ignore.
We need serious regulation to check the systems that want get inside our heads and we need it now. Tackling the business models underpinning social media and banning the use of BCI’s as consumer products before they become a mass-market reality would be first, but urgent steps. We must learn from history the dangers of letting one man control the minds of millions or billions of people and we must be prepared to say no before it is too late.
It’s not about Elon Musk, it’s about anyone having that kind of access to your mind. Our future should not be built on the best way to monetise the global population and obtain world domination for the few. It must be grounded in what it means to be human, and for that, we must have the freedom to think.
Adapted from Alegre’s new book Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate our Minds” by Susie Alegre, published by Atlantic Books
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