I’m starting to notice problems with data acquisition via the internet.  A number of blogs I regularly read are starting to go behind a paywall.  It isn’t a big paywall, usually something on the order of a dollar a month or so, but troublesome for me.  I have this policy against paying money for stuff over the internet.  It has to do with a long-standing disagreement with paypal I’ve got going on.  See, I can not use paypal.  Not even for one-time credit card processing.  I guess I’m on a list of people they have banned, and I haven’t been able to figure out why.  Most of the time, I don’t care.  About once a year or so, I’ve want something that only takes paypal, and I’ve had to find a work around, or not buy it.  Preschool went to paypal for tuition payments, but I could still mail a check.  A local race required paypal to enter, but I searched around and discovered how to mail a check to them.

I’ve considered altering my identity information, pretending I’m my husband, and the like, just to be able to buy some books.  It turns out that Scarlet Imprint requires paypal.  So does a philosophy professor, and a sigil magic course I’m interested in.  What is in a name?  After all, I can use different names in different places on the internet, so why not with paypal and facebook as well?  Yet, I haven’t.

I understand why the token dollar paywall exists.  Those bots are brutal out there.  The DDOS attacks are increasing.  When Martin Armstrong talks about the shift of public confidence to private confidence, do you think he might be discussing such things as the public to private internet usage as well?  It could be.  The private internet, the darkweb, is already bigger than the public part of it.  The public part of it increasingly is vulnerable.  You can see that every time a bank website goes down.  How many times this year has Bank of America gone down?  How many times this year have you gone to the grocery store, and the new chip card doesn’t work because the connection to the server is down?

Kevin at Cryptogon is down this morning, and by that I mean the skin is there but the content is not.  Forums run slow, and the host servers lose data.  Facebook is down for people from time to time.  Things just are not as reliable as they used to be.  Is it just down for me?

How much reliance on the internet are you exposed to?  If the banking network broke, what would your cryptocurrencies be worth?  How much government theft of trillions of dollars could you cover up with a banking network failure?  More than you could cover up by three skyscrapers falling onto their own footprint, or by a bank’s records room being flooded out in Hurricane Sandy, I’d think.

These problems are not solved by one bank to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.  You can solve “show the note” mortgage problems (MERS) by merging all of the mortgage holding banks into one central bank, but the three factions won’t have it.  If the Vatican moved its records, don’t you think the banking system would do the same?  It is basic risk management.  There are various black swan scenarios which result in the death of the public internet as an effective means of communication.  As it is, all we get is increasing noise to signal ratio.  The truth is still out there, but you have to look at the fiction to find it.