I f**king snapped this morning… I am being suffocated… facing censorship everywhere I turn… feel like the man in the iron mask. I am literally digitally, algorithmically incarcerated.
Just posted this to Facebook:
As bad as Facebook is, Instagram is even worse. When I posted the awesome artwork from Shepard Fairey featured above, after 2 HOURS it had ZERO likes. Now, a day later, after I complained about it on every other social platform that I use, it has 6 likes. SIX.
Twitter has been a bit better than those sights, but the suppression there is absurd as well. I tweeted this graphic from the Project on Government Oversight:
37 retweets probably looks good, but most of those retweets are from people that I personally asked to retweet it. The director of the Project on Government Oversight and Lee Camp, who usually gets 300+ retweets on his posts also retweeted that. The two tweets Lee had before mine each had well over 1000 retweets, when he retweeted my post it added 9 retweets to the total, NINE. Someone who consistently gets hundreds, sometimes thousands of retweets, got 9 on my post… and Twitter is my most effective social site.
I mean, I’m digressing into one case here, this has been going on for years now. I started using this email platform out of desperation in hopes that it would help, but the open rate on these emails is tragically low, the lowest open rate that I’ve ever had.
I’ve gone from building and organizing millions of people on social media, to averaging about 5 likes per post. I used to get over a million page views per report, now I can’t even keep a website up without getting hacked, and Google doesn’t even list my reports on military spending in their search results.
Look, I’m not just bitching about all this, I’ve built my own fucking social network, for the 5TH TIME. I am building new systems, which are under constant attack.
I would just give up on all of this, as my wife definitely wants me to at this point, but I know that I can unite people in a way that I don’t see anyone else doing… and I have so much vital info that I feel a tremendous obligation and responsibility to share.
We can’t go any deeper into debt… we are buried in debt at this point, and I am coming to the brutal realization that things are going to get worse… much worse... our life has already been turned upside-down by all this.
I am going to keep fighting though… I am well past the point of no return, can’t sleep at night knowing what I know while our country is going off a cliff, this is all a responsibility that I cannot ignore.
We need to figure out a way to pay for the social network mobile apps, which are almost finished, and our server, it would be nice to have a website that actually STAYS UP… not to mention the basic costs of living / feeding the family.
I don’t like to ask for donations, but we seriously need financial support. I know most of you on this email list are also dealing with your own money issues BUT… if you can afford anything at all I am at an absolute mission critical point over here.
Please hit this button…
Every single dollar helps!
Quite the humbling email here… it’s an ever-evolving battle and these digital chains are HEAVY, freedom requires eternal vigilance…
Happy Halloween, enjoy your night,
~ David DeGraw
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