Digital Dollar, End of Free Speech, and 666

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Voice of America (VOA) posted the following:

Why The Digital Dollar Will Destroy Free Speech

June 4, 2021

Sunsets glitter over the Pacific. Poppies bloom cupa de oro in the spring. The Golden Gate Bridge shines through the foggy San Francisco Bay.

These glimmers of gold may remain. But over the last 50 years, the Golden State’s luster has systematically been stripped away by sociopaths and egomaniacs in government. …

State Senator Richard Pan – an absolute dill – has a mental fixation with controlling what people post to the world wide web. In 2018, Pan introduced SB1424, “Internet: social media: advisory group”.

If outgoing Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown hadn’t vetoed SB1424, it would have required the state Attorney General to establish an advisory committee to review and create a plan to stop the “spread of false information through internet-based social media platforms.”

The plan, before vetoed, contemplated requiring California based websites to use fact checkers to verify news stories prior to publishing them. Who exactly would be the fact checkers was undefined. Brown had the common sense to reject it.

Yet now Senator Pan is at it again. This time with SB1390, “Social media platforms: amplification of harmful content”.

The bill, in short, prohibits any person/entity from making statements the government deems untrue or misleading by any means including on the internet/ads. Here’s an extract:

“This bill would prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from amplifying harmful content in a manner that results in a user viewing harmful content from another user with whom the user did not choose to share a connection. […]

“The bill would provide that harmful content includes libel or slander, as specified, threats of imminent violence against governmental entities, and disinformation or misinformation, including, but not limited to, false or misleading information regarding medicine or vaccinations, false or misleading information regarding elections, and conspiracy theories.”

The bill would also require the establishment of a complaint process…where users report what they perceive to be harmful content to a database. Complaints would then be tracked and shared with the Attorney General.

Social media platforms would then be required to remove “harmful” content within 24 hours of receiving notice from the Attorney General. Moreover, violators could be subject to “civil penalties”.

The bill, in essence, gives government the power to decide what speech is legal and illegal based on some perceived idea of what’s false or misleading. But how does government know what’s false or misleading any better than the rest of us?

Why the Digital Dollar will Destroy Free Speech

Remember, last year’s conspiracy theory often become this year’s truth. Less than a year ago, for example, claiming the National Institute of Health funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab was a conspiracy theory. Now it is a documented fact.

Yet, under Senator Pan’s proposed bill, anyone who posted such a claim prior to the NIH’s confession would have been reported to the Attorney General. These posts would then have been removed within 24 hours or civil penalties could be enforced.

Government regulation of speech, no doubt, is the exploit of despots and tyrants. It has no place in a free society.

Senator Pan may not be a despot, per se. But he does think he’s smarter than you. He also thinks he’s a better arbiter of fact and fiction than you are. He’s not.

When government officials decide what is true or false, or what views are acceptable and allowed to be shared, whether by benevolence or ideological agenda, individual rights are destroyed.

You see, the loss of free speech in society always coincides with the loss of economic freedom and financial privacy. And this goes much deeper than California…

Sacramento is an absolute dumpster fire. But at least these terrible ideas must go through the state legislative process.

Washington, on the other hand, and in concert with big tech and mainstream media, has already been censoring free speech on social media for many years. Ideological based algorithms ferret out opinions that are not acceptable to the popular narrative.

Yet this is just the beginning. Washington is currently building the infrastructure to suppress free speech by tying it to social credit. This would be extended to control and constrain how and when you spend your money. 04/08/22 https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82321/why-the-digital-dollar-will-destroy-free.html

Yes, digital currencies will lead to governments being able to track what people buy and sell.

Was freedom of free speech and of the press prophesied?

Yes.

More is coming. The prophet Amos was inspired to record the following:

11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)

In a October 23, 1980 co-worker letter, Herbert Armstrong wrote:

The Bible warns us the time is just ahead when NO MAN CAN WORK—in the Lord’s Work. We must sacrifice now as never before for this Work that we may FINISH the Work that Christ has called us to do. Pray as never before, for this Work.

In a November 22, 1982 co-worker letter, Herbert Armstrong wrote:

… brethren and co-workers, the prophesied Great Tribulation (nuclear World War III) will start soon after the European unification. That means OUR WORK OF SPREADING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE FINISHED! We have not now much more time. Soon shall come a FAMINE of hearing the Word of the Lord (Amos 8:11). God says, work while it is day, for the night is coming when no man can work – in the Work of God! Nothing else is important in our lives, now, but this all-important Work of God. (http://cog-ff.com/html/pcomments_07_04_08.html, viewed 10/03/13)

So, the Bible tells of a time that will come when the word of God will not be found. And that would seem to be because it will be taken off the internet. In the 21st century, the internet is accessed by people in every country, and thus some type of internet restriction/suspension/site removal is coming.

Now, in the USA as well as out of it, we are seeing more and more calls for speech restrictions, monitoring, and censorship.

As far as a “social credit score” goes, for years, Facebook has already categorized people based on what they post, don’t post, and the views of their online “friends.” Google and YouTube are shadow-banning content they do not want people to see. Some voices in the USA and Canada have had bank accounts closed.

The Bible foretells such a time where without something to come, one cannot buy or sell:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18)

The above prophecy points to there being the ability to control of buying and selling, as well as there being enforcers of the mark of the beast. We are also seeing things like electronic money (including those referred to as digital currencies), which did not exist a century ago, get more widespread acceptance. Electronic money will make 666’s enforcement possible.

And we see from Bible prophecy that 666’s plan will involve both economic and murderous persecution.

Now, it is true that Revelation 13 has to do with Europe, but what is happening in the USA is helping ‘pave the way’ for 666.

Electronic/digital currencies help make 666 enforcement possible.

We are getting closer to the time the 666 prophecy will be fulfilled.

Steps by the USA are helping lead to it.

Some items of possibly related interest may include:

Two Horned Beast of Revelation and 666 Who is 666? This article explains how the COG views this, and compares this to Ellen White. Here is a link to a prophetic video Six Financial Steps Leading to 666?
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Mark of the Beast What is the mark of the Beast? Who is the Beast? What have various ones claimed the mark is? What is the ‘Mark of the Beast’?
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is a link to a video titled: Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European?
European Technology and the Beast of Revelation Will the coming European Beast power would use and develop technology that will result in the taking over of the USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies? Is this possible? What does the Bible teach? Here is a related YouTube video: Military Technology and the Beast of Revelation.
Must the Ten Kings of Revelation 17:12 Rule over Ten Currently Existing Nations? Some claim that these passages refer to a gathering of 10 currently existing nations together, while one group teaches that this is referring to 11 nations getting together. Is that what Revelation 17:12-13 refers to? The ramifications of misunderstanding this are enormous.
Persecutions by Church and State This article documents some that have occurred against those associated with the COGs and some prophesied to occur. Will those with the cross be the persecutors or the persecuted–this article has the shocking answer. There is also a YouTube video sermon you can watch: The Coming Persecution of the Church. Here is information in the Spanish language: Persecuciones de la Iglesia y el Estado.
The Spanish Inquisition and Early Protestant Persecutions Was the Church of Rome really responsible for this? What happened? A video of related interest is titled: The Past and Future Inquisition.
Internet Control, Famine of the Word, and 666 On October 1, 2016, the USA officially relinquished control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), despite objections from certain political leaders and former military officials. Might this lead to more censorship, imposition on non-biblical ‘community standards,’ and loss of first amendment rights? Could this transfer of control have any prophetic ramifications? Will the internet be a factor in the ‘short work’ of Romans 9:28 and the coming ‘famine of the word’ that the Prophet Amos warned about? Will internet control be something that the 666 power will have? Dr. Thiel addresses these matters and more in this video.
The End of US Dollar Dominance Is the USA losing its economic status? What about the petro-gold-yuan? A related video is also available: US Dollar being challenged by Gold-Petro-Yuan.
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The Great Monarch: Biblical and Catholic Prophecies Is the ‘Great Monarch’ of Catholic prophecies endorsed or condemned by the Bible? Two sermons of related interest are also available: Great Monarch: Messiah or False Christ? and Great Monarch in 50+ Beast Prophecies.
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