My cause is five-fold. Struggle to maintain the power or right to express one\u2019s opinions without censorship, restraint, or legal penalty. Second, the protection of sufficiently broad public discourse. Third, the protection of scientific discovery, a process which requires the free exchange of ideas. Fourth, provision of counterbalance to propaganda, namely biased or misleading information provided by mainstream media, typically in support of a political cause or point of view. Fifth, an extra voice for the more vulnerable in society; children, elderly, the sick and the poor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What had happened that led to my experiences of extreme, unwarranted digital aggression by Californian big tech towards me, was I’d been split apart from my 13 year old daughter.<\/p>\n

There were no words, or seemingly logic, to describe it. I was dumbfounded. We’re both European Union passport holders in driving distance of each other, and we’re both based in European Union countries.<\/p>\n

All of her life I’d kept up regular contact. I’d drive from my home in Slovenia (which, for those unaware, borders northern Italy) across the border to Austria, collect her and bring her to stay with me for 4-21 days depending on her school calendar. I’d then drop her back off. Passports were never required because it’s Schengen Area.<\/p>\n

However, in March 2020, the “non-border” suddenly became a real border and was closed with the reasoning that it would help “protect” citizens from SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n

I expected it to be a matter of weeks and things would go back to normal. But they didn’t. The border remained closed.<\/p>\n

This completely destroyed my mental conception I had of being a European citizen. There was no European Union when the “crisis” hit! Each country did its own thing without any regard for or any coordination with neighboring countries.<\/p>\n

I thought that the European Union considered itself the pinnacle of human rights. Yet there’s not a greater, more fundamental, inalienable right than that of a parent to have physical access to their children.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d start trying to navigate the mayhem and start a process of personal sense making by requesting the scientific reference\/s, data, or even just the government meeting minutes that justified the lockdown and associated border closures.<\/p>\n

But to my alarm it was forthcoming. Compounding the problem was that television was parading second, or even third rate “experts”, often unqualified to be making the statements they were making, and it seemed these “experts” were only being dragged on to the screen to either scare the living wits out of the population, and\/or to bolster lopsided political narratives.<\/p>\n

Repeated requests for basic information to substantiate the measures were not forthcoming.<\/p>\n