It’s a tactic being used by elites to silence law-abiding citizens who hold dissident and contrarian beliefs. You wake up and discover you're not allowed to use regular banking services, accept credit card payments, host a website, or email your subscribers. It was weaponized during the lockdowns to shut down anyone who questioned the orthodoxy.
Or discover that you and your sons are no longer allowed to do business in New York.
Fortunately, people and companies are offering solutions to counter this trend. David Ragsdale is one of the most vehement voices in organizing a resistance to this techno-tyranny. A lifelong Angeleno, he became involved with helping to organize the "Defeat the Mandate’ rallies around the country. For the crime of peacefully assembling, the organization was immediately deplatformed.
I spoke with Ragsdale to learn about censorship and his plan to fight it.
"When we were doing Defeat the Mandate, we got de-platformed from a lot of B to B services, and our payment processors. We would join MailChimp and immediately get kicked off. You need these services to produce events," he explains.
"It was really scary because we had a permit from the Biden administration to do our Lincoln Memorial rally, but we can’t use Stripe?"
Instantly, the organization was thrown into what is being called the parallel economy, where political refugees are now forced to try to survive outside the normal financial institutions like banks and credit cards people take for granted.
In this exile, Ragsdale decided there had to be a way for companies and individuals to unite and help each other. This hope was the genesis for RePlatform, a conference taking place in Las Vegas, March 8-10th. It seeks to assemble a group of innovators, including inventors, financial institutions, payment networks, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and creators, to develop practical solutions that address the challenges of inefficiency, stagnation, and censorship in corporate America.