Dear TVP Friends,
I've been neck deep in computer code for a couple of weeks but thought it prudent to stick my head up just to keep everybody in the loop.
[Side Note: "Reputation Management for Sinister Megalomaniacs" (RMSM) would be a more accurate name for this policy; truth in labeling would be welcomed.]
Note the account has been locked, not suspended. I could unlock it at any time simply by deleting the post that Twitter has deemed non grata, but I have long been of the belief that this censorship regime is indefensible in court, and Twitter just dumped an essentially perfect case to break the arbitrary-censorship regime, so... we intend to sue Twitter and are actively pursuing that end. Good luck defending that action, Twitter, when the underlying facts can be established with absolute certainty by the direct video testimony of the subject himself. Good luck defending a "COVID misinformation" policy when we ourselves caught you red-handed verifying a fake doctor at the behest of the CCP, live in progress as you were setting it up - while that very same verification department can't seem to get around to correctly identifying half of Virginia's GOP nominees for Congress.
Bottom line for the short term, the rolling update feed, along with its associated humor and education, is stopped for now. I will not bow to censors and the facts of this case could not be better to litigate it. So you'll have to get your updates every few weeks from these newsletters until we get another channel rolling. [Side Note: The Program on Un-American Activities account is not locked, but our program manager is taking time off at the moment.]
It may turn out that shutting off that comms channel was not the best move, as the extra time not monitoring it has gone into a double-time step up of our cyberwarfare-defense activities. The results are interesting enough that we will need to consult a patent attorney.
What we've produced in this time is a webserver application layer cyber defense system that can distinguish real network traffic - real people - from automated systems, with near-perfect accuracy. As a result, it can filter out the vast majority of webserver requests that are either malicious, or pure automated Internet noise of no real significance.
For everyone who operates a website - and if you're in the business of politics, you almost certainly do - the benefits in seeing your mailing list signup and contact form spam effectively eliminated are just the start of what you can expect in using this system.
The reason why this was built was to form the basis of our solution to a general GOP communications problem that is rampant not only among Republican unit committees in Virginia. It's a low-cost website, lightning-fast, immunized against hacking and highly DDoS-resistant, optimized for the specific business processes engaged in by unit committees, with no third party code or trackers whatsoever, that can be rolled out en masse and, where the locals lack the technical skills to operate it, centrally managed at the Congressional District or state party level.
This is not a theoretical proposal; we have real interest in multiple states lined up for over 100 instances to be implemented as soon as possible, so as soon as I am done with this newsletter I am headed back to cyberspace to play neuromancer some more, get this product completed and out the door.
[Side Note: We've updated our website Terms of Use due to the fact that we now have the tools to enforce any access policy we please, among other benefits of the new system.]
But before I return to the land of code, let me first guide you out of the Matrix and back into reality.
It turns out that the ability to distinguish real network traffic from fake traffic, and to deny access from automated sources, reveals the real-world, actionable business intelligence that you as a website operator need to know, that is currently obscured from you by the relentless noise of automated systems churning out false hits.
I have to ask, did they go ahead with the Disinformation Governance Board anyway, despite protestations to the contrary? Is that why we suddenly got applied censorship on Twitter?
If they want to know what's up they can just read the newsletter. We are engineering tyranny out of existence, just like it says on the Mission statement and the state motto: Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Plugging in... see you again on the far side.
David Gordon
Director
