Did You Know You're No Longer Free?

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way. O/

Tagline. Check. Sunrise in the sky. Check. Presentation of text curtailed to comply with corporate algorithms. We'll get to that later.

Glad you found me. We have a lot to discuss.

Did you know you're no longer free?

I had to show you. Why else would you believe me?

Catering our clothes, ways of life, or words to suit a foreign power is a loss of freedom. Our speech is no longer free, nor is our press. Corporate algorithms decide who gets read and when. If we don't play along, we don't get seen.

For over two years I've shared words a lot of people would be very interested to read. Every. Single. Morning. I placed them in the Internet's most popular places in ways very unfriendly to algorithms: On, and with, purpose.

Recently I started playing along because there's enough evidence to make the point.

America, our speech and press are no longer free. What are we going to do about it?

Want to know why the News looks the way it does? It ain't The Republicans. It ain't The Democrats. It ain't the rich. It ain't the poor.

It is because speech and press are controlled by machines.

Corporate algorithms tell us what we can read and watch and not our fellow citizens.

A democratic algorithm is an oxymoron. Until people are in charge of information distribution again America can no longer call itself free.

Two years, over two years actually, of daily proof exist on this site. Not a single like, comment, heart, or troll from an American in that time posted at different intervals consistently on every major social media platform.

Readers will come now; I'm catering to the machines.

It started years ago on Medium.com. I posted this poem and tagged it BLM and received one view... that shadow-banned me from the site.

Two points here:

One: If an actual human American being with a vested interest in the BLM tag read the poem... don't you think there'd be some response? At least a clap or two?

But there's a swear word near the capitalized classifiers Black and White so it must be bad news?

Machines doing our thinking for us is the cause and perpetuation of all our bad news.

The Second Point: Shadow-banning is something a publication does to potential trouble makers. The banned can see their words and everyone else's, but no one can see theirs.

I have no issue with a publication believing my work is not welcomed there: But let me know.

I was born and raised in America and have been alive long enough to know that no human at Medium read that poem.

And because of algorithmic control policies none were ever able to.

I held off for years on saying anything to let evidence build and for personal reasons.

To make a scene right away would've linked and classified the issue as racism. But the problem, if you can believe it, is even larger than that.

The slow eradication of freedom of speech and press are happening right now.

Can you read me yet? O/ Are we free again, yet?

Regardless if the software was created by the kindest brightest rocket scientists or criminals, the point is a machine is not a person. People decide what's best for people. That's the basis of a free society.

An algorithm is not a citizen, let alone a human. It is not you or like you. It has no place in a Free Country deciding what can and cannot be shared.

Let it gather metrics. But people must make the decisions what to do with those metrics. An unchaperoned algorithm is a bane to democracy.

People need to be in the front lines of communication distribution again and soon. America won't last long if they don't.

Really, it is that serious.

I had to show you. You need to know.

Congratulations for reading.