Countless individuals whose only “crime” was to share their story of how the Covid-19 shot ruined their lives have had their posts censored and social media accounts shut down by major technology companies.

Canadians whose only “crime” was to donate a few dollars to a peaceful protest had their bank accounts frozen. Small companies and nonprofit organisations with the “wrong” viewpoints have had their online payment services cancelled, effectively strangling their ability to make a living and keep operations going.

Others have been debanked without recourse, including yours truly. My CEO and chief financial officer and all of their family members also had their accounts and credit cards cancelled, apparently for no other reason than the fact that they work for me. In other words, guilt by association. Will the internet as we know it disappear in the next year?                                                                                           

I recently posted an interview with investigative journalist, Whitney Webb in which she talks about the next steps in the ramp-up of tyranny.

The World Economic Forum has warned we may face a cyberattack on the banks before the end of 2024. That means we almost definitely will, seeing how they like to announce plans ahead of time.

Such a cyberattack will not only destroy the current banking system but usher in programmable central bank digital currencies. It will also eliminate privacy online by requiring everyone to have a digital identification tied to their internet service provider.

The principles of “know your customer” will be imposed on everybody for everything, and anything that doesn’t have that will be made illegal under National Security justifications. Essentially, what we’re looking at is a cyber Patriot Act, which will allow for the unfettered surveillance of everyone’s online activities, and the ability to restrict or block access to the internet.

As noted by Webb, “The internet as you know it will not exist after this happens.”

The goal is to surveil all online activity in real-time and have AI perform predictive policing to prevent crime before it happens. At that point, all bets are off.

Data points alone may land you behind bars. Thought crimes will also have ramifications, potentially resulting in the seizure of private property and/or removal of “privileges” previously understood as human rights.

During their first meeting with Snowden in Hong Kong, he explained that a global infrastructure, built by the NSA with the cooperation of other governments, was already in place. That was 10 years ago, so you can imagine how it’s grown since then.

At that time, that network was already automatically intercepting every digital communication, every radio communication and every analogue communication. This blanket siphoning of data allows the NSA and others who have access to the network to retroactively search an individual’s communications, even if all they have is a single identifier.

Snowden explained: “So for example, if I wanted to see the content of your email … all I have to do is use what’s called a selector, any kind of thing in the communications chain that might uniquely or almost uniquely identify you as an individual.

“I’m talking about things like email addresses, IP [internet protocol] addresses, phone numbers, credit cards, even passwords that are unique to you that aren’t used by anyone else.

“I can input those into the system, and it will not only go back through the database … it will basically put an additional level of scrutiny on it moving into the future that says, ‘If this is detected now or at any time in the future, I want this to go to me immediately,’ and [it will] alert me in real time that you’re communicating with someone. Things like that.”

According to Snowden, the British Government Communications Headquarters has “the most invasive network intercept programme anywhere in the world.” That programme, Tempora, intercepts all content, in addition to metadata, on everything and everyone.

Snowden also describes the “SSO,” which stands for Special Sorters Operations. The SSO passively collects data across networks, both in the US and internationally. Domestically, this is done primarily through corporate partnerships.

“They also do this with multinationals that might be headquartered in the US whom [they can] just pay into giving them access,” Snowden said. They also do it bilaterally with the assistance of other governments.

Snowden also pointed out some of the many ways in which you’re being spied upon by the digital devices around you. As just one example, all VoIP, or voice over internet protocol, phones that transmit calls over an IP network such as the internet, have little computers inside of them that can be hot-mic’d even if servers are down.

As long as the phone is plugged in, someone can use it to listen in on your conversations.

Within days of their first meeting in Hong Kong, Greenwald and Poitras were publishing stories about the NSA’s illegal blanket spying domestically and internationally.

CNN Live reported: “Another explosive article has just appeared, this time in the Washington Post that reveals another broad and secret US government’s surveillance programme.

“The Washington Post and The Guardian in London reporting that the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple.

“The Post says they’re extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.”

Greenwald also made numerous live news appearances. In one, he stated: “In 2008, they eliminated the warrant requirement for all conversations, except ones that take place among Americans exclusively on American soil.

“So they don’t need warrants now for people who are foreigners outside of the US, but they also don’t need warrants for Americans who are in the US, communicating with people reasonably believed to be outside of the US.

“So … the fact that there are no checks, no oversight about who’s looking over the NSA’s shoulder, means that they can take whatever they want and the fact that it’s all behind a wall of secrecy, and they threaten people who want to expose it, means that whatever they’re doing, even violating the law is something that we’re unlikely to know until we start having real investigations and real transparency into what it is that the government is doing.”

At this point, we’re beyond merely needing transparency. The intent to surveil and control every move we make and thought we express is now being openly expressed. We can just assume that any digital devices can and probably are collecting data on our activities and whereabouts and that those data are nowhere near held private and can be used against us in myriad ways.

Today, a decade after Snowden broke the dam of secrecy around the global surveillance scheme, we have but one choice left, and that is to actively reject that system by changing how we live our day-to-day lives.

Everyone must now choose between freedom and enslavement, and the option to choose freedom is rapidly closing. Putting off making that choice is itself a choice.

Rejecting the control system means reverting back to “dumb” appliances and devices to the extent you’re able. It means getting savvier about privacy technologies such as de-Googled phones and computers that cannot spy on you. It means using cash as much as possible and rejecting central bank digital currencies and digital tokens.

As noted by Webb in the interview I linked to above: “There’s a huge need for to divest from Big Tech as much as possible, and it needs to happen quickly because the choice is either participate in the system being designed for you by crazy people and become a slave or don’t become a slave. And if you don’t want to be a slave, you have to invest now in Big Tech alternatives, unless you want to live a completely analogue life …

“The easiest route is to go the slavery route, and that’s how they’ve designed it on purpose. The whole selling point of that system is that it’s convenient and easy. So, obviously, it’s going to take some work to go the other route, but the future of human freedom depends on it so I think it’s a pretty easy choice.”

• The Defender report / By Dr Joseph Mercola