I am sure most readers are aware that leftist Internet tech giants are now censoring information that they do not want people to see. The Internet system that now exists has been hijacked by wealthy techofascists. They use their platforms to control the digital data created by others. I and others believe our digital data needs to be liberated.
Even the web host that I use has taken down websites after receiving complaints by libtards. My web host is the second largest website hosting company in the world. This censorship is become a big threat to Internet freedom. If leftists continue to control the Internet, it becomes inevitable that conservative and Christian sites will be taken down. Government regulation is not the answer because the deep state is also controlled by leftists. (Leftists are the pagans of our age.) The long-term answer to Internet freedom is the development of new technology that decentralizes and takes away control from those attempting to censor.
I cannot stop the leftist censorship so I take precautions by having offline backups. Then if my website is taken down I can just sign up with a new host and upload my data. That restoration could take several days so I would be far more comfortable if I could find a conservative Christian web host. If anyone knows of such a web host that is reasonably priced, that supports https and that can handle WordPress and website migration, let me know.
The long-term solution to these high-tech companies running everything is developing a new open sourced platform that decentralizes data using blockchain technology. Tim Berners-Lee with his Solid platform is now developing such a platform. Berners-Lee is not a small fry new kid on the block. He is the father of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee is not happy with the hijacking of the Internet by tech giants and he is doing something about it. He plans to create a new Internet that is decentralized, more peer-to-peer and far less controllable.
It is my understanding that with Solid your data will reside on pods that will be encrypted and decentralized using blockchain technology. It is hard for normal people to get their minds around blockchain technology. All most really need to know is that blockchain is an encrypted decentralized digital database. It is a ledger designed to track everything of value and do it in real time.
With blockchain there will be no central database for people to hack or take down. The data will be controlled by the owner of the data not some tech giant. No hostile player can take down your digital data because they cannot access it without permission or find out where it is located.
One challenge with blockchain technology is in the development of the data processing tools. We have data processing tools that work just fine on local databases but they cannot process encrypted information that is widely dispersed all over the Internet. The infrastructure, platforms, tools and apps for blockchain will take time to develop. A second issue that will delay blockchain implementation is getting common people to accept the risks of doing market transactions without the use of middlemen.
One of the goals of blockchain technology is to completely eliminate middlemen by making it peer-to-peer. You would no longer need Facebook, Twitter and ilk to host your social interactions. You also would no longer need lawyers and accountants to be middle-men for wealth or property transactions. Selling and the purchasing of anything of value could be done in real time without the usual legal delay or the added expense. The digital database would exist globally and digital currency would be used to buy or sell.
One of developments that I would personally like to see is digital data surviving the creators. As we move away from papers and books to digital data we need to have a way to permanently store that digital data and a way that people of the future can still have access to that data. The way it is now, my writings only exist on the Internet for as long as I pay a web host to store the data. After the short-term contract to host the data expires my articles would disappear from the Internet. There are opened sourced archives of data such as the Wayback Machine on the Internet but without knowing the URL people are not going to find the data. Search engines like Google do not search them. I would like to see anything ever written, made public and made digital stay relevant, just as old paper documents still can be relevant to researchers. There needs to be an opened sourced accessible database of all public digital data but it should not be centralized and that is where blockchain comes in.
You might wonder how any of this relates to world trends and Bible prophecy? Blockchain technology actually probably does relate to the Beast buy/sell system of Revelation 13. I remember back in the 1970’s and 80’s certain Bible prophecy teachers often mentioned a computer nicknamed the BEAST that was located in Brussels Belgium. The suggestion was that this super computer would somehow be used to enable the Revelation 13 buy/sell system. That was totally unrealistic. However, blockchain technology that stores and links all digital data globally in real-time would be a global buy/sell system. Once things of value to be sold are registered in the digital blockchain and once the database is accessible by all purchasers, all that remains is for the Beast government to somehow hijack the access codes and for the False Prophet to make the decree.
Revelation 13 suggests that at the end of the age there will be totalitarian global control over all commerce. The mark or the number mentioned in Revelation 13 might just be the code that allows you to have access to the global blockchain database. Without the mark or the number you will be completely shut out. You would not be able to buy or sell. This budding global blockchain database is just another sign of the time that the end of the age draws near.
I also am sure that governments will increasingly go totalitarian and find ways to spy on and regulate blockchain transactions. For that reason, I am not very optimistic that blockchain technology will ever lead to Internet freedom. The new Internet infrastructure now being envisioned will take some time to develop. It probably is no coincidence that blockchain technology will mature just in time for the 2030’s era Beast and False Prophet.
Hi,
The key with a blockchain, based on hashes arranged in a merkle tree, is that it is virtually impossible to modify within. Sure, you can “add” but you cannot change the history of content that came before.
What makes things like digital currency more appealing to anonymity is that you are identified by yet another hash or “address”, along with the addition of a bloom-filter that obfuscates the transactions coming / going from your wallet endpoint.
However, a blockchain in the controlling hands of a state, with presumed back doors, makes the platform subject to that control.
We the people can create our own secure peer-to-peer platforms (hence the emergence of open source bitcoin and the various forks there after to some degree), but the underlying infrastructure can shut down such efforts (once identified and deemed “incorrect”).
The potential for blockchain in the “regular world” is the security offered such that historical records cannot be changed (‘er, assure integrity) — applications such as medical, official [business / contract] record, and similar.
That being said, I haven’t looked in to Solid. But I am a big fan of open source and peer-to-peer. The tools can be used for good or evil, as just about anything else, but at least a decentralized control model is best for freedom.
That’s a quick synopsis from my end.
Blessings, Craig
Don, I am providing a link to some up and coming decentralized database solutions when you have the time too read. I am not very technically savvy when it comes to blockchain technology but I have been investing in cryptocurrency since 2017. I spend a good deal of time reading about the different use cases, (even if I don’t understand it). This may not be exactly what you are looking for but it is interesting nonetheless.
https://coincentral.com/off-races-best-decentralized-storage-solutions-storj-sia-filecoin-maidsafe/
Hi Teresa,
That was a very useful article that I will bookmark for later reference. I did have a paragraph in my article about this technology using spare capacity on personal computing devices for storage and processing but I took it out because I was not sure that I knew what I was talking about. Happy to see that some companies are doing this.
Any of these companies could hit it big. I am not sure anything they offer now is worth it to me at this point. I might first like to see Internet web hosts farming out their storage to such decentralized clouds.Then they could advertise to those needing hosting that because the data does not exist on their servers they have no ability to censor the data. They could also blind themselves to even viewing hosted websites without permission. If that happened, complaints by libtards would be useless and the web hosts would mostly just provide bandwidth and processing.
Hi Craig,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
The only thing I think could hinder the “new web” is those large corporations that own the pipes. Your data might be private/protected, but individual IP addresses could still be blacklisted I think. So instead of your real name being exposed, you would now be just another number sequence online.
We might go longer without being banned, but eventually, the evil ones will figure out how to control it.
This article and the comments is all very interesting. because the the Bible says what does about the last days, I’m not terribly optimistic about the future. As you said , Don, Leftists are the new pagans and are multiplying thanks to thanks to the laws of entropy taking hold in our schools, government and society at large. We are living in times that would have been hard to fathom even in our grand parent’s times, not so long ago. These are scary and perilous times. Thank God we serve the King. I pray for God’s grace to continue for all of us.
Hi David,
Dark forces could even be steering the development of these technologies in the way they want them to go.
Hi Don,
“Dark forces could even be steering the development of these technologies in the way they want them to go.”
I think there is much truth in your statement, Don. I’ve wondered for a long time if the development of the computer as we know it today wasn’t given to us, and nurtured along, by fallen angels in order to advance Satan’s agenda? I can’t help but think back to the pre-Flood world where, according to some non-canonical books (Book of Enoch, I believe), some fallen angels passed on forbidden knowledge to humans. This is very likely still going on today, to steer us toward the Deceiver’s ultimate goal. Satan is not omnipresent, but through the computer and Internet, he can darn well almost be.
Hi Don,
Here is another article about some of the big players (Tim Berners-Lee included) who are working on a decentralized internet. Zeronet And AION are names I hear alot about in the crypto world. I am also including a link to a website (cryptopanic) I use daily for ALL the latest blockchain and crypto news. You may find it very useful. Some of it is over my head, but I just push through. Hope it helps, or at least entertains.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/advancing-toward-decentralized-internet-real-world/
https://cryptopanic.com/