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Blogging to you from the Northeastern Badlands of The County of Lake, in the state currently known as Fatmanistan, DEEP DEEP DEEP DEEP DEEP inside the heartland of the Banana Republic formerly known as the USA, WELCOME TO THE NEXT CHAPTER! WARNING! ALL FORMS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ARE ADDICTIVE; EXCESSIVE USE MAY LEAD TO MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, REDUCED JOB PRODUCTIVITY, INSOMNIA, SOCIAL ALIENATION, GENITAL ULCERS, BLINDNESS, POLITICAL EROTICISM, AND / OR DEVIANT FUNAMBULISM. NOTICE: NO GUNS OR AMMUNITION ARE FOR SALE VIA THIS BLOG. (No, I will not trade my Colt Python for some lubricious adventures with your trophy wife and a future first-round draft pick.) CAVEAT: This blog is not suitable for viewing while at work, while inside a public library, while inside any public or private school, or while inside any public or private restroom. Do not view this blog while driving a motor vehicle or while piloting an aircraft. Viewing this blog may be illegal inside the EU, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, and other parts of the Third World. THIS BLOG CONTAINS (albeit often very childish) ADULT-CONTENT. DISCLAIMER: This blog is a hobby, it is not a livelihood. Even though much of what I blog about relates to firearms collecting and recreational shooting, I am not an expert (by any measure) on any facet of guns, shooting, hunting, or personal defense. Entries at this blog are akin to good old-fashioned campfire chats or post hunt bourbon-fueled barroom-bluster; I offer no opinion on what you should or should not purchase, or what you should be using or doing. What does or does not work for me could be rugged-country-miles away from your tastes and your needs. All products, places, and miscellany that I review for this blog are purchased / rented / leased at retail price by me. I do not accept payment, gifts, discounts, freebies, products on loan, distilled spirits, recreational pharmaceuticals, plea-bargains, probation, parole, Papal Blessings, Presidential Pardons, or sexual favors for doing any review or blog post. TRACKING COOKIES: Google et al stick tracking cookies on everybody. If you are online, you are being spied on via one method or another, for one reason or another; 'nuff said. You may be able to minimize your online DNA residue by using Tor and Duck Duck Go. Vive la liberté! Vive all y'all! Ante omnia armari. To each of you, thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, April 1, 2018

I am tired of the Goliaths that misuse the Internet

I never signed on to Facebook.  They want far too much personal information and they have a dictatorial set of rules that I refuse to agree to.  

For a while I could not find information on local businesses or our local government entities because each saw fit to do all of their online communications via Facebook.  Anyone not a member of Facebook was out of the loop.  Fortunately, most of our local government agencies have returned to maintaining websites.  Businesses that want my money had better be marketing their goods or services on something other than Facebook.

Google is restricting traffic to sites that do not meet their ambiguously fluid corporate rules and political views.  Google's measure isn't that postings simply must be legal, Google's measure is an unpredictable, arbitrary, corporate / political taste du jour.   So be it.   As of now I am terminating my participation in Google+, a creation that was once thought of as having the potential to be "Facebook done right."  It failed.  After this blog entry, I will no longer  be "sharing" anything I find of interest to Google+.   Since I already removed YouTube from my list of places to visit I will henceforth refuse to click on any YouTube link sent to me via email.  

Acting as one humble human choosing to piss against an ill wind, I've been doing almost all of my web searches using the Duck Duck Go search engine.  Over half of my online surfing presence currently is via the Tor browser.  "We the people" are the product that the internet behemoths sell for $Billions.   Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and all of the others need to learn NOT to piss off "the product."  We don't have to comply.  For example, I will never buy from Amazon until I can do so as a "guest" without opening an account.  Not a single dime of my money ever went to Amazon.

I've been online since the early days of the Bulletin Board Systems and 300-baud modems.  I didn't toe any lines back then and I am not about to kiss any ass at this late stage of my life.  

I'll be keeping this obscure blog site going for as long as I find doing so to be more personally-entertaining than I find Google to be exasperating.







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