The problem
Last week I had the unpleasant surprise of finding out that another MGTOW forum I use had an issue of doxing. The situation is confusing, so I will not talk about it. But for precaution I simply terminated my account, for all that is worth.
Being a law abiding citizen, exercising its natural born (and legal) right of free speech, in a European western democratic country, I had nothing to hide when joining these MGTOW forums. Therefore I used email accounts with my own name.
Out of the situation described above, I decided to change the email account of this forum to an anonymous email account instead, like a true ghost should do. You have to believe when I say my country is especially tolerant in the internet realm. I could even access MGTOW forums at work, the firewall did not censor political sites (this is not a political site, but feminists dont see it that way).
So, to my surprise I just found out that my email provider was blocking the confirmation email from this site. Had had my account locked the last week because I could not receive the confirmation email. I asked for help from the admins, and they would resend the email, but to no avail.
Finally I tried an outlook account and confirmed: my national email provider is censoring email from this site.
I cannot understate how troubling this is. Email is not something that you block at a whim. There is no coincidence here, it is a deliberate act of censorship, and worrying giving the natural tolerance of my country.
This got me thinking about ghosting. You do not hide or avoid people, that is not ghosting. To ghost is to be just like anyone else, indistinguishable from all the blue pills. But if you want to speak about red pill things, then you need to use sites like this.
The internet
To be in the internet is like sending letters with your address in it written by default. Anyone at the post office knows who is writing and to whom. Using a VPN is like writing a letter to a redistribution service, anyone at the post office knows you are trying to hide the destination. It is possible that the letters delivered to such redistribution services are cross-refenced, you just need to mark them in and check them out, and voila: you have the destination.
Worst, recent operational systems are permanently transmitting information to the internet. I would not be surprised if the browsing history is one of such information... All for our own good, of course.
Browsers are also huge chunks of software where you can hide several types of spying. Android smartphones and tablets are especially worrying, because the blatantly cross-reference your contacts, your location, the wifi-networks you connect and the unique identification of your machine. Did you stop to wonder why your mobile number is becoming so necessary for registering and obtain things like an email account?
Google offers you a large number of free services, from the OS of your phone, to your browser, to the videos you see, to email, or the maps you use. Inadvertently you are providing this company with your ideas, your tastes, your whereabouts. All your emails go through detailed scrutiny by smart algorithms. If you buy an airplane ticket you start getting publicity about the country you visit.
Now we shop online, and we pay with online services. You smartphone can pay your physical shopping, you can send money to your friends and pay your bills.
Everything is connected and points to you.
And all this without even talking about social networks, because those things show the people you are connected to, the things you enjoy or dislike, and are able to shape your thinking.
The machine
Once you see the possibilities of the technology and what big online companies are doing you can only reach one conclusion: we have all the makings of a dystopian tyranny, the likes of it not even the big brother from Orwell's 1984. In that book the police only had snitches to work with, not all your words, thoughts, likes and dislikes, you whereabouts, your acquaintances, all your correspondence and where you spend your money.
The surveillance machine is established. You are watched, and all your activities depend of the internet. If needs be you can be denied service, as it already happens in China with the "social score". Thousands of people were denied travelling by plane or rail, because of nebulous political criteria without appeal or recourse.
And the worst of it is that you cannot predict what will hurt you or not. The "agencies" are now storing metadata about everybody. If you become a person of interest, then they already know everything there is to know about you. It is easy in a few years to look back at this data with new algorithms and compile lists of retroactive sins were never imagined before. The metoo movement is but a pale shadow of what is possible in digital format.
The oppression machine is established, it only needs to be activated with a upgrade of code.
Our only safeguard is that we live in free democratic countries, under the rule of law. Remove this and the prospects are terrifying.
MGTOW
When we talk of men going their own way then we are not talking about a religious sect with terrorist intentions. In fact MGTOW want to be left alone and mostly speak of NFG, being more stoic than anything else.
MGTOW is not political, and while many have a more conservative view, there are also others that have a more left-leaning/socialist viewpoint. There are those that oppose emigration, and resent the political/social protection of the Muslims, but no more than the rest of society. The difference is the freedom of speech enjoyed in MGTOW forums, were you dont have the usual SJW's thought police that prowl other internet sites.
Socially MGTOW are very disruptive in the sense that they speak the truth. A truth so powerful that can reshape society if men everywhere were able to listen to it.
But like the matrix movie, most men are blue pill to the core and would die protecting the society that hates them instead of listening to MGTOW wisdom. As much as MGTOW is growing, it is a small non-vocal minority that knows you can take a horse to the water, but you cannot force him to drink. The majority is a dangerous blue pill white knighting zombie horde.
So, neither politically and neither for security reasons makes sense to censor MGTOW. The conclusion is that culturally and socially there is a tightening of the knot.
This is indicative of a slipping of the machine to the realm of thought policing.
And what are the acceptable thoughts? One has to just look at what is promoted and the the propaganda: its the gynocentric view.
The Future
In my youtube favorites I can find a TED talk "meeting the enemy: inside the men's rights movement". I have never seen it, but apparently youtube thinks I should. I cannot fail to notice the contradiction between the words "enemy" and "rights", because you say you have rights then you are the enemy.
Men are not at war. Men are the ones being relentlessly exploited, destroyed and oppressed, and yet the MRM only ask for men's rights to be recognized. AND THAT MAKES THEM THE ENEMY! That alone shows you all that you need to know, who is oppressed and who is the oppressor.
I think my social score is already screwed. I see the way we are slipping into a tyrannical technological machine. And I would like to discuss in this thread ideas about how to live and ghost under the coming oppression.
How to communicate? How to blend in with the mob?
What are your ideas and experiences about this issue?