Hey there Steemit community! It’s been a while that I have been actively writing online, and it looks like things have changed quite a bit. I used to be an avid WordPress blogger, and up until recently, I had no idea that a platform like Steemit even existed!

Where have I been?

First of all, I'm thrilled to be here :) I took a step back in writing a few years ago. In short, I went too far down the rabbit hole with my research during a school shooting that left me and others with a lot of unanswered questions. Looking for answers, I communicated with other researchers, YouTubers and posted on various online message boards.

Shortly thereafter, our research was censored, deleted, user accounts banned and the sock puppets had a blast with the research community. It was then, that me and several others moved our research to several WordPress blogs. Things went a little too far when we were bullied and harassed for simply asking questions, and apparently even researchers who had their blogs hosted privately, got their content deleted by their web-hosting company.

I was recently contacted by an old friend of mine, who informed me that hundreds of research videos had been deleted of his YouTube playlist.

If you search for answers regarding a certain school shooting today, you will find a graveyard of unavailable videos in the remaining articles online.

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” ― U.S. Supreme Court Justice, William O. Douglas

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington

I value justice, freedom of speech and I miss real journalism, but I'd decided back then to dedicate my time & energy towards my family and other rewarding things like making my own soap and body care products. A few weeks ago I became very alert when several of my favorite YouTube channels disappeared right in front of my eyes.

I witnessed the YouTube purge, shadow-banning on Twitter, Facebook and deletion of several subs on Reddit, only this time, just mentioning the Parkland school shooting would get you banned. Welcome to 1984 - George Orwell. The only difference is, Winston was ordered by the Ministry of Truth to alter history - Now they are flat out deleting it.

“YouTube is purging right-wing and independent commentators in the wake of the Parkland High shooting while admitting that it is ‘mistakenly’ banning conservatives.”

YouTube Purge and Mass censoring

"Controversial YouTubers head to alternative platforms in wake of ‘purge’ "

YouTube Purge - The Move to Steemit, Dtube and BitChute

Steemit’s CEO Ned Scott doesn’t believe in censorship; a stance that has won him and his platform fans in recent months. “If someone reports a video for infringing on copyright, it’s our legal responsibility to take the video down and investigate, which we’ll do,” Scott said. “But we aren’t policing content.”

"It’s worth highlighting that because the blockchain is open, transparent and public, any other entrepreneur could come along and leverage the same database of information, including all the ssts, comments, votes, profiles and follows. Because of this, if there were ever censorship going on at the application layer, people could point to us and say “hey, there’s content being censored from the blockchain”, and that would be bad for us as a business.

We want to promote freedom of speech, and it’s in our best interest to do that as much as possible – and the blockchain facilitates those incentives quite a bit more than social media platforms that have come before us."

Read the full Steemit Interview with CEO Ned Scott

UNDERCOVER VIDEO: Twitter Engineers To “Ban a Way of Talking” Through “Shadow Banning,” Algorithms to Censor Opposing Political Opinions

Alternative Media / Independent Media is now fully aware that if they haven’t already been censored, they are about to be. It’s only a matter of time as the Establishment, via its Establishment platforms, purges any anti-Establishment view. Users on Reddit created a list with recent deleted and banned Youtube channels

The list includes: Anti-School, The Paulstaul Service, Titus Frost, Max Malone, Richie Allen Show, The Black Child and many others.

The topics of those deleted channels include but are not limited to:

– False Flag shootings, False Flag Hoaxes, Nanotechnology/Bioweapons, Directed Energy Weapons, Various Aspects of the Global Conspiracy, e.g. Zionism, Geopolitics, Hidden History of Humanity, Satanism, Hollywood & Pedophilia.

Read more here

Did you know that The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform?

YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” police the platform for so-called hate speech to terror-related content.

The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as “hate groups” — is one of the more than 100 non-government organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” program.

Did you know that there is an Online Hate Index, published by the Anti Defamation League?

They study “targeted populations” in a more detailed manner. Let’s take a look at what topics are flagged as Hate Speech and included in their Hate index:

The First Amendment? You have got to be kidding me, Freedom of Speech is now attacked and labeled as Hate Speech? 911 truth, censorship, Donald Trump, mens rights and conspiracy is now hate speech? If you think I'm making this up, you can view their video below. They have conveniently disabled comments in case you wanted to voice your concerns.

Did you know that there is a new censorship algorithm, that was deployed on Youtube, Facebook & Twitter?

This information was leaked by an insider called Q - a "Q Clearance Patriot" who has been posting and leaking Intel information to the public since October/November last year. It started out on the 4chan board, but Q later moved to the 8chan board as he stated the 4chan board was compromised.

There is a website who pulls the latest posts by Q automatically from the 8chan board, you can read the very interesting Q drops here.

Whether Google, Facebook or Twitter, the Left controls the narrative. Social media continues the job of the fake news mainstream media. They pretend to fight for free and open internet, as they scheme against Conservative America or anybody who doesn’t agree with their narrative.

Google is the worlds biggest censor and its power must be regulated

When Google's employees or algorithms decide to block our access to information about a news item, political candidate or business, opinions and votes can shift, reputations can be ruined and businesses can crash and burn. Because online censorship is entirely unregulated at the moment, victims have little or no recourse when they have been harmed.

There is currently an open petition at the White House calling for an Internet Bill Of Rights:

"Internet forums and social networks which provide free access to the public are a digital place of assembly, and individuals using such methods for public communication should not be subjected to censorship due to political beliefs or differing ideas. Conservative voices on many large public website platforms are being censored, based solely on a differing opinion.

Some of these platforms further employ tracking mechanisms for monitoring an individual's digital history, which can be used to censor the individual's public communication through various censorship practices, sometimes without knowledge or awareness. These actions directly violate personal liberty and stand at contrast with the bill of rights.

We the people demand action to bring our digital future into the light."

Several people who have been banned and censored on YouTube; including Anti School and Prager University (PragerU), an online media outlet founded by conservative commentator and radio host Dennis Prager are currently suing Google for censorship.

If you have made it this far, thank you so much for reading my intro post on Steemit. The recent censorship purge and silencing of voices online is what brought me to this wonderful platform. I hope to connect with many like minded people on here, until then Steem on :)