I received this email a couple days ago from X.

I’ve been posting quite a bit to X for nearly a year.  I’ve done more posting to social media in the past year than in all the previous years of my life combined.

I’ve watched my follower count crawl up by one or two … or maybe as many as five … a day.  X has a daily userbase of millions.  Elon Musk has stated that he allows freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.  His company justifies this manipulation by blaming advertisers.  Businesses don’t want their ads showing up next to any content that is super unpopular.

A couple days ago I wrote a long reply to this post by Tim Bodnar.  He had posted it to his X account.  The post itself is by Michael G. Hein.

And here is the reply that I posted that was labeled “hate” by X.  I guess Elon’s robot thinks criticism of his platform is hate?

I’m loathe to admit that I signed his paycheck for six years, and praised him publicly more than once through the years. He has now lumped me in with all of his enemies and added me, earlier this year, to his political and personal attack targets.

My professional relationship ended with him in 2009. He publicly attacked members of my family in 2021/22 as part of what he told me last fall was a strategy to infiltrate the Left in Maine. I wrote off his attack at the time as political. I learned the truth the hard way this year. Tim could very well be right in characterizing Hein as a communist.

If there’s one reason Gardiner has a Tranny Clinic now it is Mike Hein. It appears he has dedicated himself to protecting the communist agenda in Augusta Schools.

He will do so by gossiping about any leaders who the internet pukes on with factoids from their past that he can spin into character assassination.

He is the sort of human being who makes all of us think twice about using apps and software that don’t enable simple deletion of guilt-inducing things we’ve said or done in the past.

Beyond that he’s attempting to weaponize frequency of attack on X using one-sided gossip aimed at achieving public political objectives.

I think all social networks should be social first. The word “media” should not be combined with the word “social.”

Until we are provided with online tools that give us absolute authority over our online identity and data we are stuck with a commons that can be, and is being, manipulated in an infinite number of ways.

Hein is nothing compared to governments,  Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Theil. But they are all the same. They are using their powers, such as they are, to create ex nihilo the world they need for the rest of us to see and want.

You don’t get a vote.

AI is being deployed to make sure you continue to think you do have one. Especially on Facebook and Instagram.

Make no mistake KYC (Know Your Customer) is THE internet layer that steals the soul of global humanity. It is being deployed on X right now. It’s almost redundant at Meta because you believed Zuck’s lie about friendship, and you’ve given them enough data points to make them think they know you better than you know yourself. And you probably agree with them without even knowing it.

If you’ve carefully cultivated a friend list over the past ten years on Facebook and/or Instagram the safest thing you can do TO PROTECT FRIENDS AND FAMILY is delete that account and stop using the App and anything produced by Meta. That includes Instagram.

I’m not going to delete my account. I did that years ago, and then restarted an account that I haven’t used. I’m probably going to use that account as media. You can follow me there, but I’m not going to create a social friends graph there. I’m going to do that to protect my friends. You can choose to follow me on Facebook. But I won’t be accepting Friend requests.

If you want a more integrated social connection with me go to heath@primal.net which is a Nostr client. My social graph belongs to me on Nostr, and my digital identity is connected through public/private key cryptography. Zuck and company have no control over my connection to my friends.

Also Nostr is an algorithmically agnostic protocol that cannot employ universal algorithms designed to make us buy something or think/feel a certain way.

Here’s a four minute explanation.