Kneecapping the Alternative Influence Network: The Sargon Patreon Debacle.

When Data & Society came out with the report on the Alternative Influence Network, I wrote a post on it here on my blog.

I did say that now it had been identified as a thing, the AIN will be targeted.

One of my most prescient comments was the following paragraph:

"To say for instance that someone two or three links away from Sargon are tainted by white male supremacy (even the vloggers who are not white, nor male) is a pretty paranoid viepoint. Under normal circumstances it would be ignored and more than likely ridiculed. But because it esposes the leftist media viewpoint that someone has to be to blame for the loss of control of alternative media, leftist corporations will pick this report up, swallow it as gospel and use it to shadow-ban or completely ban these vloggers, even if they have not proffered a far-right viewpoint."

Exactly that has come to pass. Someone in power has taken that report as Gospel and is now attempting to disrupt the Alternative Influence Network, be it real or fiction. If you look at the diagram D&S put on their report, Sargon is a huge blob in the centre of the network. By taking him out I believe the powers that be (whoever is putting pressure on Patreon) are attempting to disrupt a significant proportion of the AIN. If it doesn't work, they will move on to the other significant sites in the network.

Anyone on that diagram is at risk of deplatforming. I suspect that anyone with a block on that diagram close to the size of Sargon's will be next in line.

This is not about what Sargon said way back, it's not about him sitting in the front row of a debate. This is entirely political.

This is the new Battleground for the 2020 American presidential elections. Someone somewhere in a position of high power and influence in the financial system blames the influence of the AIN for Trump winning the election. They are out to radically disrupt that network by any and all means.

It may even be they want to own the media narrative and think the AIN is too big for it's boots. Don't forget that a TV station in Serbia was bombed and people killed so that those in power in the West could own the media narrative. They will go to ANY lengths.

They are using financial transactions and the loss of them as a way to kneecap the AIN in order to stifle it's alternative media message. They don't care who they take down as collateral damage. Gab, SubscribeStar, they do not care. Other platforms that provide services to the currently identified AIN will be targeted over the coming months, mark my words.