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On what basis would you assume that Musk could get to where he is without being a creature of that same surveillance system?

To use your example, it would be a simple matter for a copy of that data traffic between you and your friend to be cloned to some off-site surveillance centre and you'll be none the wiser.

To take the point further, and as much as I'd love to have a champion in Trump for Truth, what evidence do we have that he's not a creature of that same swamp he decried (and decisively failed to drain during his tenure in the seat of power)?

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Apr 5, 2022·edited Apr 5, 2022

Great article and information but it avoids the real question. How to stop the cancel culture that has come to dominate so much of our society.

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Feb 22, 2022Liked by CognitiveCarbon

I have speculated for quite some time there is a connection between Elon Musk's Starlink and Trump's Truth Social... Facebook and Twitter are panicking... Twitter is on another massive purge..... Some very interesting times ahead 😉😎

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That was an amazing way to teach us. I’m so educated now I feel like I’m six years old. Haha ☺️ Thanks for the great article.

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How will Starlink communicate with services that are homed on legacy internet, like Breitbart? I could see legacy internet deny any traffic from Starlink which would make Starlink a closed network. Maybe that's okay, but it would make searches for news & information very cumbersome.

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Can we trust Elon Musk???

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Thank you very much for the explanation.

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This is great information. The American People and the world will be in shock as the truth comes out. This is my second article I have commented on. I appreciate it's written at the 9th grade level vs. last post at 14th grade level. My point as a reader is this: My inbox says I have 1400 more posts to read. I don't like slugging through a high grade level for material that doesn't warrant it. When I read Medical Papers, experiments and such, I expect a high level, that's fine. Above you reference Ethical Skeptic's article where he disses his readers on this. How? They ask him to not write at such a high level. He defends himself by positing the Bridgman Point as a fact to justify not writing it simpler. Well I can take his stuff right down to 5th grade without a problem, he doesn't want to. And so as an example, I rewrote the last 6 paragraphs of this article at the 9th grade to the 5th grade level. The material no where came close to being on the edge of the Bridgman Point (and neither did his which is ironic). (These comments were 4th grade level). Now onto my 1400 other posts to read, many historical things in motion. Best.

5th Grade Reading Level. So now we get to the reason that StarLink, or something like it, is so important. What is StarLink? It is a network of space-borne satellites put aloft by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It will deliver internet pretty much anywhere in the world using a direct link to satellites. It bypasses all other existing ground-based network infrastructure.

Your device will connect to a Starlink antenna. Your message packets are then beamed up to it, processed, then returned. No cable, no wi-fi, no direct hook-up with any existing carriers.

It goes from me, to StarLink, to you. No AT&T and others (in bed with NSA, who has access to all the major router facilities operated by AT&T) need apply.

Let's go back to the home and neighborhood analogy. It’s like Elon Musk gives you a flying car that goes from your driveway to work without using the old roads. You are no longer under the Intel Agencies sensors anymore. Blockades by the cancel culture mob no longer work; you can go around any obstacle.

I can talk to you, and you can talk to me, over a new “Internet” that isn’t cancellable. That's the primary strength and beauty of the Truth Social Media Platform.

And that, dear friends, is why StarLink and Truth Social are such a threat to the powers that be.

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I am super excited about TruthSocial and an internet that is free from bias. Thank you for a simplified explanation of web sites and why things can get so difficult

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Theta Labs crypto does what you are talking about. Decentralized peer to peer video and internet. Theta labs partners (Samsung, etc) can download the software tonight on every Samsung smart TV to implement the Theta protocols. No Elon Musk required. Got Theta?

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Why would anyone want to depend on infrastructure from a charlatan and oligarch like Elon Musk, who is so inept he can't even equip his shoddily built Tesla BEVs with technology that can compete with a primitive fuel tank?

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Thank you CC, well done. Excited for Truth Social and Starlink. Truth is a great start.

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Why can we not use VPNs, sort of like putting lead blankets around the car, so even if they see the car, they can't see in? Use the same roads but they don't know which cars to stop.

Put all your traffic through VPNs and no one even knows which traffic to target. Even if they know how to break the encryption, the sheer amount of data makes this problematic for them.

Win with numbers.

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You're aware that Starlink does not operate the way you have described, at least at this point in time. The current topology/design is single-hop user to Internet via a single satellite and gateway terminal. Additionally, there are insufficient phase 2 satellites with laser x-link capability that would be required to support bypassing ground-based infrastructure (or lack of infrastructure - just ask Tonga) and it will be years before that would even be possible. There are also additional limitations with the satellites themselves that would have to be addressed (spacecraft power, transponder bandwidth, number of supported users, etc.) that would be necessary to connect a user to Truth Social while bypassing terrestrial infrastructure - never mind that any user opting to go this route would require an antenna and subscription. I've subscribed so you have my email - feel free to contact me offline. BE

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