The following report is from The Hill:
The new domestic “War on Terror,” kicked off by the riot on Jan. 6, has prompted several web giants to unveil predecessors to what effectively could become a soft social credit system by the end of this decade. Relying on an indirect hand from D.C., our social betters in corporate America will attempt to force the most profound changes our society has seen during the internet era.
China’s social credit system is a combination of government and business surveillance that gives citizens a “score” that can restrict the ability of individuals to take actions — such as purchasing plane tickets, acquiring property or taking loans — because of behaviors. Given the position of several major American companies, a similar system may be coming here sooner than you think.
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Last week, PayPal announced a partnership with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to “investigate” the role of “white supremacists” and propagators of “anti-government” rhetoric, subjective labels that potentially could impact a large number of groups or people using their service. PayPal says the collected information will be shared with other financial firms and politicians. Facebook is taking similar measures, recently introducing messages that ask users to snitch on their potentially “extremist” friends, which considering the platform’s bias seems mainly to target the political right. At the same time, Facebook and Microsoft are working with several other web giants and the United Nations on a database to block potential extremist content.
The actions of these major companies may seem logical in an internet riddled with scams and crime. After all, nobody will defend far-right militias or white supremacist groups using these platforms for their odious goals. However, the same issue with government censorship exists with corporate censorship: If there is a line, who draws it? Will the distinction between mundane politics and extremism be a “I’ll know it when I see it” scenario, as former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart described obscenity? If so, will there be individuals able to unilaterally remove people’s effective ability to use the internet? Could a Facebook employee equate Ben Shapiro with David Duke, and remove his account?
The implications of these crackdown efforts will be significantly more broad than just prohibiting Donald Trump from tweeting at 3 a.m. Young people cannot effectively function in society if blocked from using Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Uber, Amazon, PayPal, Venmo and other financial transaction systems. Some banking platforms already have announced a ban on certain legal purchases, such as firearms. The growth of such restrictions, which will only accelerate with support from (usually) left-wing politicians, could create a system in which individuals who do not hold certain political views could be blocked from polite society and left unable to make a living.
The potential scope of the soft social credit system under construction is enormous. The same companies that can track your activities and give you corporate rewards for compliant behavior could utilize their powers to block transactions, add surcharges or restrict your use of products. At what point does free speech — be it against biological males playing in girls’ sports, questioning vaccine side effects, or advocating for gun rights — make someone a target in this new system? When does your debit card get canceled over old tweets, your home loan denied for homeschooling your kids, or your eBay account invalidated because a friend flagged you for posting a Gadsden flag?
Federal fingerprints aren’t directly on recent actions — yet. The creation of a “Digital Dollar” would put an exclamation point on a new social credit score. Working in conjunction with major tech companies, citizens not convicted of a crime could lose their ability to transact any business. In time, decentralized forms of money, such as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, may be the main means for dissidents to operate — as long as the federal government doesn’t move to squash them. If the Fed and members of Congress are skeptical of crypto now, its use by political undesirables could lead to a furtive effort to severely restrict or ban these currencies.
Until and unless there is an organized pushback, our future could track with those of increasingly illiberal societies. Just last week, the British government announced its own version of a health social credit system. China’s system was announced only seven years ago. Considering the growth of algorithms and dependence on tech giants, the ability to track, censor and eventually punish ordinary citizens will be mindboggling by 2030. America’s descent into a 21st century Gilded Age directed by tech titans isn’t an inevitability. However, do you know anyone who would take a 5% Amazon coupon in exchange for a “call to action”? Or someone who would replace their Facebook profile picture to avoid being locked out?
Peer pressure, trendy movements, and the ability to comply with the new system with the click of a mouse combine all of the worst elements of dopamine-chasing Americans. As it grows in breadth and power, what may be most surprising about our new social credit system won’t be collective fear of it, but rather how quickly most people will fall in line.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[8] Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: [10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: [11] Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. [12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: [13] Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. [14] And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. Isaiah 30:8-14
On January 6th, the day of the Capital riots, I summarized what all of that meant:
As The WinePress has shown numerous times already, these actions are all by design. The people at the Capital were allowed to storm it. Because of this, this now allows for the next step of the “New World Order” to instigate “new rules” in order to deal with the insanity.
And now, we have been seeing all kinds of these “new rules” popping up since then, as regular readers of The WinePress are aware of. I have warned about this for months on The WinePress, and now that more mainstream media is coming out with articles about it, that means all the plans are in place and it is ready to be instigated right around the bend.
I have explained in detail, from the words and material from these major tech groups themselves, what is coming down the pike: a brand new internet system with real-time social credit and “digital intelligence” will be implemented. This isn’t any “tin-hat conspiracy:” it’s real and it’s coming.
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Moreover, as The WinePress has been warning about, a coming planned and scripted cyber grid attack is coming, that will make this Covid pandemonium look like child’s play. And what will come in its stead are all these asinine laws and statues that the elites controlled by Satan and the devils (that God has granted them permission to have (Pro 21:1; Job 1-2; Zep 3:8)).
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So, lest you thought The WinePress was just peddling fear, it is becoming more clear as the days roll by. I will say though, as I have noted before: I will NOT be participating in this system. I can’t wait to return to more of the old paths and ways of living.
Warn those that still have ears to hear and eyes to see.
[13] For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. [14]They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. [15] Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. [16] Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. [17] Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.Jeremiah 6:13-17
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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More and more are signaling that a lockdown, mask mandate, vaccine push is coming to get masses of people demonstrating in the streets with opportunity for another January 6th style false flag event; or ones like the Michigan governor ‘kidnapping’ with 12 FBI agent/informants involved with two goats led on & to the slaughter: what used to be called ‘entrapment’. This one perhaps targeting medical personnel, pharma or even a hospital….and used to justify further tyrannical controls like this social credit score & predictive accusation garbage. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- I am so reminded of a young candidating missionary who had grown up in China, & his concern for those left behind as non-national Christians were given the boot we met around two years ago now. I had strong suspicions that something very similar to the Three Self Patriotic Movement was growing in our own circle of churches, along with social justice Emergent trends we thought we’d left behind in the ‘liberal’ and any Bible churches….. & his reaction when I felt him out with questioning, & that of certain influential listening in to the conversation, told me all I needed to know, and surely more than I wanted to know. I didn’t get to tell him I was sorry, or to warn him, but his reaction made plain he was seeing it for what it was, & I didn’t see him again. Who knew how very soon it would all came bursting out into the open as not only a concern for Chinese nationals. : – ( ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Frankly, as censorship ramps up on more & more websites, with fewer & fewer true opportunities for real communication; and with old, once reliable research resources twisted & revised….the internet is becoming less of an attraction every day. Even Dr. Mercola announced in an article this morning that due to personal threats related to his being on Biden’s top 12 ‘disinformation’ sites list, he’d be putting up content for 48 hour intervals only, then removing it. He could put up with CNN trailing him as he left his house to ride his bike daily, but the new company & legal threatenings were a bit more intimidating. People were trying to download copy of useful information for their particular health & nutrition concerns, & found it disabled to that end. I wasn’t at home & didn’t try downloading or printing anything personally. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- I’m thankful for what hard copy acquired or printed out to this point, on health information & with regard to Bible & doctrine, history, foraging, etc; but it’s looking like we’re quickly coming to the end of access, & that what we’ve got and what preparation we’ve made to this point is what we’ve got. Ready or not. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Good luck…better said: God’s provision & protection, blessing to the end of simple living & the old paths for those youngsters in this forum. Press on & do not amass to yourselves the consequential baggage that crept up on many of we elders in a very seductive age. Been urging people to pray as Daniel in chapter 9 & not the vainglorious ‘envisioning’ garbage of the proud kingdom builders for some time now, though to little avail even in my intimate circle….which also limited my ability to support ministries financially, though prayer & spreading information & warning, preaching & teaching has been a constant. So be it. Nonetheless, the Lord protected David even in his extremity, knowing his own sin led to much of his trial, & it is to there that I will look as well…..though from the perspective of Bathsheba or one of his wives sharing in his sufferings. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– You younger remember that Daniel & the three Hebrew children went into the service of the Babylonians alone, & without the guidance of their elders whom one must presume were killed by the Babylonians, or who succumbed during the siege; & those young men were even castrated against their will (talk about an unwanted medical procedure bringing infertility!)….& yet God provided & protected them through their trials, too. Remember, too, that it’s quite another thing to willingly receive such a procedure if any other avenue is open to one. Then it becomes a bowing to the idol response or denial of God attempting to avoid the burning fiery furnace or lion’s den situation. God help us all.