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The big thing here, which I did not make clear, is that practically everything that comes before your eyes has been screened and you are getting a version of the truth, probably specially selected for you, to work with your known biases and preferences.

Epoch Times and substack could be gone in a wink. Those who are online to make a living self-censor in order to be seen/found. There will be nowhere to go for unfiltered truth soon.

Listen to Benz. the censorship apparatus can push us any way they want. Elections are out the window already. It is important to share what he has revealed about the size, complexity and sophistication of the system. Which continues to grow.

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God Bless You & Your Efforts! Thankful that you such a TRUTH WARRIOR 🙏

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Meryl:

Twitter/Google did this to me about 15 months ago. They are linking your phone number to other digital entities (signons) that you have used. In my case there were 8-9 people in America with the same name, so Twitter/Google decided to force me to give my phone number so that they could nail my identity with complete accuracy. Since that time, I have had Google/Twitter/Youtube/Linked-In/Amazon/Facebook and other large social media orgs play authentication games with me and make life difficult. Please hang in there, you're on the winning side!

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Yes, all my accounts started doing the same thing. TicTok wanted my birthday and phone number. I said NO THANKS. but if Elon asked for my phone number I think I would give it to him. 🤩😂. It really is just a way for them to verify identity and keep hackers out, all for your safety UH OH. where have I heard that before!! ??? 😵‍💫🤦🏼‍♀️😳

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When I got locked out I used a free google voice number you sign up for. I also used a second email account that my provider gave me for free too. You can use the google "burner" phone number and get around most issues.

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that sounds like a good workaround. Thanks! 👍🏼

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yeah, Twitter nailed my new/alternate account the same way. I guess ol’ ElonTwitter isn’t as pro free speech as he says and I am, indeed, permanently suspended.

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I know someone who was also “Permanently suspended”

At first the link to appeal was dead

After a while the link worked but no reinstatement

After months of requests the account was suddenly reactivated

My guess is that they reactivated to pick up advertising revenue again

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I don't get you people. Why are you still using Google??

Stop complaining, quite using it, else you deserve what you get. You support them with your custom - the most precious one, you data and privacy!

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I just thank God that you are on Substack and along with being a paid subscriber I try to urge others to go to your substack. I will never forget your introducing me to the work of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt at their substacks. So I hope next week when off to check out this latest recommendation. Keep up your extraordinary good work and thank you.

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If you don't subscribe to Epoch TV, I found the following "copy" of the Benz interviews, combined into one video, on Rumble:

Mike Benz Censorship and Dirty Tricks on EPOCH TV American Thought Leaders

https://rumble.com/v296af0-mike-benz-censorship-and-dirty-tricks-on-epoch-tv-american-thought-leaders.html

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American Thought Leaders has so many wonderful programs.

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Worth the price of an Epoch Times subscription, IMHO!

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Yes, thank you for providing a way to watch this. Incredibly important. I subscribed to get newsletters.

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Thank you!! Epoch makes it so annoying

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I was banned from Twitter for unspecified reasons, but re-registered after Elon bought it, thinking it must be better now. Wrong.

I tweeted the fact "Trans is mental illness" and was banned with such inhuman speed that they seem to have woke AI policing it now. Twitter demands I give them my phone number and delete the offending fact to regain access to their censorship platform. Nope, not going to do that.

Elon failed. He's part of the problem now, not the solution.

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EEE!!-lon was always one of "them." I was flabbergasted when all the little trusting sheepies were jumping with joy because Big Daddy Elon was going to save their "free" speech... reeeally? Where'd it go?

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This happened to me over a year ago. Did not give them my phone number, so haven’t been on Twitter since. They can pi ss off. Get rid of your freaking cell phones people. Get an ipad and a landline . The entire digital surveillance, digital ID, digital currency thing depends on YOU ‘needing’ your smartphone. Stop making excuses. Stop whining about how you NEED it. You can freaking live without it. If only 30% of the population dumped the damm smartphones this whole agenda ends. But NO. See how you’re already trapped.Jesus.

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why is an ipad better?

They listen to you through the TV and appliances. There is not an easy out.

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Because they need you to have the carry with you smartphone for digital ID and digital currency to work. That’s the end game.

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You need to have a very old tee vee. No one should be purchasing "smart" (ass) appliances.

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There is. You need to look harder.

Linux and Linux phone.

Quit Google or else don't complain, you get what you deserve because you are supporting them with you data.

With one hand you are all winning about censorship, yet with the other you are supporting and empowering these serial felons. Do you know how many time and for how much Google was fined for breach of data and privacy? Do they care?

That was the moment to quit. How many of us did that?

Everybody is sucked into convenience until we all find ourselves enslaved - Stalinism was heaven compared to what's coming. And I fear that we've reached the point of no-return.

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Probably the best out is VPNs and fake identity.

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I knew someone that did the traffic report on a small local TV station. She said the way they know how traffic is moving is through the tracking of all the cell phones in the vehicles. We are being tracked everywhere, all the time.

The problem with not having a cell is that there are almost no pay phones in the event of an emergency. I used to only buy cellphones that had removable batteries but I don't think those are made anymore. TPTB don't want people to be able to be untracked.

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Dump the phones. The ‘emergency’ is the threat to our fundamental human rights. That’s a lot more serious than some possible‘emergency’ you may need that phone for. People are all around you. You’d manage. People do. No cell phone for a decade now. It’s not so scary.

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Those concerned about EMFs recommend avoiding wifi, and use something that can be hardwired. I am going to get rid of my iPad for this reason. Maybe I’ll go back to a landline phone. Will see.

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I have a landline. It’s very, very doable. You don’t need to carry a phone with you. For DECADES people didn’t carry phones with them. The constant contact thing and all that texting is certainly not NECESSARY. No one will die without the cell phones. We just might die because of them though. 5G is a class 1 carcinogen. Asbestos is a class 1 carcinogen. AND they’re destroying our societies and freedoms because of them. They need YOU to believe you HAVE to have take with you everywhere internet. If you’re buying into that, then you’re an important part of their plans for moving their total takeover forward. If enough people dumped the smartphones , got landlines, then the corporate players would have to accommodate. They NEED YOU. You don’t need them.

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I agree with most of what you've said here, except for using an ipad.

Apple is /horrible/ about privacy violations, regardless of their advertising.

Their software is ridiculously under their control and you can't opt out of a lot of what they do.

A wifi only ipad can still be located within a few miles by IP address.

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Yes. I think the iPad is about those who just can’t do without some kind of mobility (like lying on their couch vs at a desk), and a less dangerous solution to their mobile internet phone addiction. Think of it as a step down. They still don’t need to carry the damm iPad with them. Leave the thing at home for God’s sake. The idea is no one needs mobile internet to be with them every moment of their day. Surveillance is a big problem, but not as big of a threat as the digital ID and digital currency threat that they NEED people to have smartphones for.

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I saw another mention in this thread about using Linux and Linux phones (I have one, it's called a Pinephone.)

Mine has individual physical switches to turn off GPS, microphone, camera, and cellular module.

If it's to be left at home, use a computer with Linux on it to dodge the Google/Apple/Microsoft tracking.

If you're gonna step down, half measures supporting a horrible billionaire company aren't going to help much.

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Yes. But how to get them to start.

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You could just walk away from Twitter. You will live. Or you can keep training 'the abuser' that you will crawl back no matter what they do to you.

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sure she could just walk away. but that's not the point is it. the point is, censorship is preventing freedom of speech and people like Meryl are being targeted. so soon will the rest of us be targeted when a social credit system and CBDC arrive everywhere on a global scale. no one will be able to speak freely and if you do, you're digital wallet gets turned off. maybe you get a knock on your door if you're on the naughty citizen list & you get disappeared. do we want this? if we don't we need to fight back rather than give into total control of the human being.

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You really don't get it, do you?

You can cry as much as you want, until you support them (Google Twitter and all the big tech) and their actions with YOUR DATA, you get what "pay" for and you deserve it.

Use your custom, meaning quit these serial felons.

Speaking and crying will achieve nothing.

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Tell me more about the relationship between Twitter and CBDC's, I am dying to know.

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one more comment, Meryl, I am fairly sure Elon Musk and company did not do this as originating from themselves, they probably got some directive from one of the 3-letter govt agencies demanding censorship.

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Elon Musk is NOT our friend. He’s got the sane agenda. Just a different way of bringing it about. There is NO ‘free speech’ if some billionaire ‘decides’ who gets it. Jesus.

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We have to remember that he’s still cleaning house, there’s a lot of algorithms that they are still trying to untangle from that disgusting little web that was woven with the previous owner.

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Lots of media going missing also. Blocked out of my fb account but they still allow people to post on my page??? Still send notices of comments??? Just logged out for good. Hello Telegram I guess. What a bunch of @#$%^%$ 's/. The more they do the bigger the reveal of their coverup and the more the pushback!!!

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I cannot for the life of me figure out telegram or GETTR. I can’t seem to get them going.

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The new Twitter model will be an example of passive intelligence gathering and identification and tracking of individuals..... I feel like Elon is a kinder gentler Klaus Scwabb, but they really have one similar goal and don't care about the consequences for humanity.

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I don't use twitter. I already know what my truths are. I avoid most social media like the plague it has become. There are several independent sites with various features and that is all I need to know.

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Who are these independent sites? Would you please share them with the rest of us.

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I do it the easy way - I don't use any of those things. Dr. M - I fulfilled. my promise - made a donation to the CHD legal fund soon as my SS check came!

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You rock!

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How do you people manage to do this — I’ve been trying to get my account banned for nearly a year now and no dice.

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Sigh. Every time I think we're scraping the bottom of the surveillance barrel I find out there's more. Thank you for continuing to expose these mofos. Also, I've been a big fan of James Corbett for a while and watching you two together brings me great joy.

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In UK, also EU, new laws to be brought in on pretext of online safety, harmful content yet no definitions given. Even someone could possibly claim to be harmed by a post not even directed to them personally. Yet to be debated but really about censorship. The mention of calling this censorship by other names- media development or similar just shows how much they are into Orwellian double speak.

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Here we are again truth is a lie and a lie is truth. Personally all misinformation (most of it) is real information

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