Censorship is a big deal today. Social media sites, special interests, and government entities are actively eroding our rights. It is not unheard of people being harassed, bullied, intimidated and even worse because of their opinions, personal beliefs, or simply for exercising their rights.

This website is here to provide a service, but as a case in point,  you can see this information is easily accessible by everyone with an internet connection.

Your information even when you think is private, can also be accessed by certain parties even if you’re not aware of it. Many companies will turn over information to anybody resembling any kind of authority. We think companies should never share information without a federal order and/or warrant, but in the end, private companies can do whatever they want with your data.

This includes communications you’ve had with others, like emails, txt messages, and phone calls. Remember, your data and communications, if hosted in the US are subject to the PATRIOT act and we all know that’s just a bunch of bullshit designed to legally violate your rights!

You can protect your communications with each other in a lot of different ways.

Mirror your videos in as many places as you can. Read this for more details.

Protect your communications (see below).

Lock Your Phone With a Password or Pin or both

You can lock your phone so that it requires a password even to just turn on. And make the password be alphanumeric if possible. In case where your phone falls captive to the police, you can all of the sudden forget this password and/or secret pin code.

Use GPG keys for your private and sensitive email communications

Here’s how to use Thunderbird (email client) with security to prevent your email from being intercepted: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-encrypting-messages

How to use GPG with Gmail without difficulties: https://trendblog.net/encrypt-gmail-openpgp/

Additional reading:

• Hastily passed 45 days after 9/11 in the name of national security, the Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and track the activity of innocent Americans on the Internet. While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects. Continue here.
• The USA PATRIOT Act: Preserving Life and Liberty. (link)

Footnotes:

• Thunderbird is an email client, like Apple Mail, or Outlook. You can get use this program to send and receive emails no matter who you have email with (Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, etc).
• There are Chrome and Firefox extensions that let you use GPG with Gmail and other mail services like Hotmail, etc. We DO NOT recommend you use those extensions because of the nature of how extensions and add-ons work in browsers.