Reclaiming the Right to Free Speech

I experienced my first Big Tech censorship in the first week of July 2015, when from one day to the next, my website was 90% demonetized by Google AdSense.

AdSense had comprised 100% of my income for the previous 5 years and there were no alternatives to Google back then, so this was catastrophic for me.

There was no reason given and there was no recourse. I was simply ghosted by the Google employees who used to help me optimize my ad revenue, in which Google had shared 32%.

Censorship was still unknown in America and this newfangled corporate canceling hadn’t yet become the well-oiled machine that we know today.

I didn’t put the two together at the time, but Donald Trump had announced his candidacy for the 2016 Election two weeks previously, on June 16, 2015 and I had been posting about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from WikiLeaks and about how Hillary Clinton was desperate to pass it into law.

Although I was a registered Democrat and I had never been a fan of Trump’s, I despised Hillary, so I listened to what he had to say. To my complete shock and amazement, I agreed with most of it and I was public about it – which was probably the first Kiss of Algorithmic Death that got me 90% demonetized.

Trump’s talking points reminded me of some of the things Bill Cooper had said about the threats of Globalism, so on June 20, 2015, I posted his 1991 ‘Behold a Pale Horse’ speech, which had just been remastered.

When Trump withdrew the US from the TPP by Executive Order as one of his first acts in office, I knew I’d made the right decision.

But Trump failed all of us on censorship during his term. Despite several Congressional hearings in 2018 with Big Tech companies, nothing got done.

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