If we do not stand against our voices being silenced at every single turn, eventually we will be gone from these platforms -- and your lives. Your accounts you engage with will be AI - those accounts are already here. The music you listen to will be created by AI. Your education will be from AI. Your art will be created by AI. Your books will be written by AI. Your articles written by AI. Your entertainment will be AI. Your news will be AI. Your poetry will be AI. Your entire window into the world will be delivered and crafted to you BY AI.
Most of us on Substack aren’t new to censorship, it’s a tale as old as time.
However this can be a hindrance - we’ve developed a normalcy bias to someone infringing on a GOD given right.
It’s also exhausting to continue talking about after years of it, so most of us just keep pushing. We’re used to people not caring (unless it happens to them) so we fight the battles on our own.
It ranges from total restriction of expression to, in severe cases, being “suicided” - murdered.
Since most of Substack has devolved to a frenzy on Notes, I’m going to copy and paste what I wrote there on the matter in this article. Hopefully someone takes the time to read this. Much love.
Meta (IG and Facebook) have blocked the release of Algorithm Ghetto (Subversion Remix).
If you go into any area where you select music, every song of mine comes up besides that one. Youtube/Google have done the same thing.
TikTok approved it into their “stores” and on their platform, however, they’ve just censored the lyrics pertaining to AI for the 5th time as of yesterday.
On my distributors side, it shows my release as being LIVE and released to all stores, which include social media platforms, so the blocking is occurring on the end of the social media platforms and not the distributor.
In all my years of releasing music, I’ve certainly had loads of it censored, but I’ve never had it blocked from being available on the platform entirely.
It was suggested to me to get on X and start tagging certain music and media companies (Meta, Youtube, TikTok, Digital Music News, Social Media Today to name a few).
I deleted my account a while back, so to start a new one plus pay a fee to be able to talk (get “verified”) is something today I do not have time for, as I work a full time job and I’m going on a podcast after work to discuss AI. I need to be prepared for that.
People are very good at making noise about that which they oppose and that which they’d like to fight for.
I am asking for help, in whatever way you can offer it.
Whether that be sharing the music video, or if you have an X account, tagging those companies and asking why they are blocking content and music that openly discusses AI and the potential dangers.
Why they are STILL censoring speech across the board despite numerous promises not to.
To the “promises made, promises kept” camp, those promises aren’t being kept at all, it’s a mockery.
I will be continuing to follow up with my distribution company and do what I can on my end while doing everything else.
If you have time to share the video so the message gets out somewhere, or if you have time to post on X if you have an account there, that would be greatly appreciated.
If we do not stand against our voices being silenced at every single turn, eventually we will be gone from these platforms and your lives.
Your accounts you engage with will be AI - those accounts are already here. The music you listen to will be created by AI.
Your education will be from AI. Your art will be created by AI.
Your entertainment will be AI. Your news will be AI. Your poetry will be AI.
Your entire window into the world will be delivered and crafted to you BY AI.
So, if you don’t hand over humanity and the human soul (and all its expressions) to Artificial Intelligence, its very origins being MILITARY and anti-human to the core - now would be the time to start acting, because the longer people let this slide, the less time they have with actually interacting with living beings.
For those of us who have dealt with censorship for years on end, we are absolutely exhausted and can’t keep fighting this on our own.
So yes, we need your help, and I’m asking you for it now.
You can access the song on any platform at this link. Sharing by the people for people is the only way to circulate this. And better yet, forming a grassroots plan to actually address the censorship instead of constantly bouncing from one place to another would be an even stronger move.
LINKS: https://linktr.ee/tesstamona
Music Video:
Makes me livid! Grrr!
"In a global community" when anyone starts a sentence with that you just know you're getting censored or banned. They can shove their version of a global community asswards.
I step back and look at what's happening to us and it appears insane, a cruel joke, if we presented our society to people 30 years ago they wouldn't believe it.