(0613) Morning all … seems nondescript out there but still pre-commuter time. (0620)
Private Browsing
Those who’ve bothered and who are in the know have known for a long time about Tor and similar … even a cursory ggl ai search brings up a good overview.
There are many good ways to do peer to peer although I’d suggest Proton and similar are not going to cut it, except as a fallback alternative … ditto with substack and the like. Even encrypted mail systems can have back doors to major players … and I’m obviously writing now as what we might call “advanced user”.
MMutR called it superuser in one of his kinder moments and I’m suggesting that you as an onliner need to up your learning from simple user to at least “proficient” as the thought police start snaking their tentacles into everything. Andrew Torba also suggests you start using … well let me just run the text as is:
The Parallel Internet
For decades the internet has been captured by gatekeepers who built
centralized platforms, controlled the flow of information, and set
themselves up as arbiters of truth. What began as a frontier of freedom
was gradually domesticated into a system of surveillance, censorship,
and manipulation. We are no longer participants in a great marketplace
of ideas. We are subjects in their digital empire.
The concept of a parallel internet challenges this empire at its root.
It is not a replacement of the internet we know. It is an overlay, a new
dimension, a layer of truth and freedom laid directly on top of the
existing web. Instead of abandoning the vast digital commons, the
parallel internet redeems it. It takes what has been corrupted and
reorients it toward transparency, authenticity, and truth.
We learned a lot over the past month. First, Gab AI <https://gab.ai>is
powerful, innovative, and deeply desired by people who are hungry for
truth. Second, the establishment and its Big Tech enforcers fear us.
They see us as a threat to their entire system of control. Frankly, they
are right to be afraid.
In July, our AI replybot on X became a phenomenon. Within days it
reached tens of millions of views organically, generated hundreds of
thousands of replies, and grew at a rate that clearly set off alarms in
Silicon Valley. This was undeniable proof that people are desperate for
AI tools that tell the them the truth.
After only two weeks, X shut it down. They could not allow something
unapproved and uncontrollable to flourish on their platform. Soon after,
we received a cease and desist letter from the legal team at xAI, a
frontier AI company valued at nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars.
Their demand was that we remove Grok from our dashboard because our own
AI model, Arya, was now seen as a direct competitor.
Think about that. A small, community-funded, American project is now
recognized as a threat by one of the largest AI companies in the world.
That is the highest validation we could ever receive and a badge of
honor. What we are building truly matters. Shortly after this we were
also banned by our payment processor and have spent the past few weeks
rebuilding our payments infrastructure from scratch and finding new
partners, losing tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
*None of this will stop us. Our best ideas always come from necessity
while under fire.* These recent attacks pushed us to ask a larger
question: why should we ask permission to exist on one platform at all?
Why not build something that works everywhere, beyond their reach,
outside their rules, and beyond their control?
That question brought us back to our roots. Years ago, we launched
Dissenter. It was a browser extension that created a universal
free-speech comment section on every URL across the internet. When
Chrome and Firefox banned it, we built our own browser with the
technology built in. Maintaining a full browser was too resource-heavy
at the time, but the idea of a parallel layer across the internet never
died. It simply waited for the right time and the right technology.
That time is now.
Today I am proud to announce the rebirth of that vision. Supercharged
with Gab AI, we are releasing version one of the Gab AI Browser
Extension
<https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gab-ai/pomgefapfdpdficbbpdpjnianmgeoikk?hl=en-US>.
Click here to watch a video and see how it works
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0kFcUyXTI>
For now the functionality is simple. The extension adds a Gab AI button
to every X post and instantly generates insightful, context-aware
replies. This is our beachhead. It is the first step in a much larger
plan. We are not only building an extension. We are building a parallel
internet. A new layer of truth, context, and free speech built directly
on top of the existing web.
*What if we could erase their lies automatically?*
Imagine every corner of the web transformed. A mainstream media article
no longer appears as an authoritative block of text, but as a document
instantly annotated by an AI that highlights bias, fact-checks claims,
and contrasts propaganda with reality. A Wikipedia page, once controlled
by anonymous editors and activist mobs, is instantly rewritten to
reflect historical truth, sourced by independent communities rather than
captured institutions. On X or any other platform, every post becomes a
springboard into deeper, freer dialogue, unbound by arbitrary rules or
the censorship of moderators.
The parallel internet does not require permission. It exists everywhere
people install it. It cannot be removed by banning a single app store
listing or deleting one domain. It spreads horizontally, peer to peer,
powered by the people who choose to adopt it. Like faith, like truth,
like freedom itself, it does not beg to exist within the confines of the
regime. It simply exists, and in existing, it reshapes everything it
touches.
What we are building is not an app, not an extension, not even a
platform. It is a new layer of the internet itself, one that cuts
through the lies and restores the internet to its true purpose: the free
exchange of ideas in service of truth.
…….
This next is not an endorsement from Unherdables, it’s merely for information:
Click here to install the Gab AI Browser Extension for Chrome or Brave.
<https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gab-ai/pomgefapfdpdficbbpdpjnianmgeoikk?hl=en-US>
A Firefox version will be ready soon, with many more features to follow.
Thank you for building with us.
Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab AI
Christ is King
Click here to view a blog post version of this email.
<https://news.gab.ai/building-a-parallel-internet/>
*How You Can Help Right Now*
Upgrade to Gab AI Plus <https://gab.ai>
Make a one-time donation <https://donate.gab.com>
Upgrade to GabPRO <https://pro.gab.com>
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To whom am I pitching this post? Clearly not to techies of the old (80s) type, pre-university bit of paper … more to those who browse a lot, know quite a bit about how it all works , that’s it … while I myself am in exploring mode before any committng mode.