I’ve been Reddit free for a couple years now, after Reddit deplatformed me for planning a peaceful protest of the yearly Billionaire’s Summer Camp in Sun Valley, Idaho. It’s where Billionaires give there marching orders to the Operation Mockingbird media.
Quitting Reddit is way harder than any other addiction I’ve experienced, because it plays on the collectivism that is hardwired into us. It’s why they peddle it to kids like the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries before them. Get them while they are young, and there brains aren’t developed enough to build up self-control!
It’s not just Reddit though, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc, etc, etc all do the same things to varying levels. I highly encourage everyone to watch the Documovie The Social Dilema. The only way to free ourselves of this new form of digital slavery is to educate people on the dangers our such technology.
It disgusts me that schools were complicit in giving Google our children’s education data.
Because the U.S. government used the 2001 Microsoft Internet Explorer Antitrust hearings to blackmail Microsoft into government servitude: implanting NSA backdoors, not patching vulnerabilities, disabling system administration tools, constantly hiding or moving useful features. Remember from the Snowden leaks that the NSA’s favorite prey is the System and/or Network Administrator who holds all the keys? But what about the guy that makes the keys, wouldn’t he be the biggest prey?
It’s not just the search engines, it’s the always on instant gratification machine that is called the smartphone. The only thing it’s smart at, is stealing your privacy, stealing your money, and finally stealing your soul. Throw it away, and limit your internet usage to 1-2 hours per day max.