They didn't just delete our accounts. They deleted our history.
Hundreds of thousands of followers, gone. Years of podcasts, music mixes, commentary, vaporized. And worse: family photos. Videos of the kids. Moments you can't get back. Irreplaceable memories stored on platforms we thought were permanent.
Turns out, when you're a digital tenant, you don't own anything. You rent space on someone else's server, and when they decide you're a problem, they kick you out. No trial. No appeal. Just a Terms of Service violation email and a locked door.
We learned that lesson the hard way. And we're never going back.
This isn't a post about begging for our accounts back or complaining about fairness. This is about what we did next: we became digital preppers. We built our own infrastructure. And we're giving away the blueprints so you can do the same.
The Gut Punch: When Big Tech Deletes Your Life
Let me be clear about what happened.
We lost multiple accounts. Some had 100,000+ followers. Some had 250,000+. That's not just vanity metrics, that's a decade of relationship-building, content creation, and audience trust. That's direct communication with people who wanted to hear what we had to say.
But the real gut punch wasn't the follower count. It was the personal content.
Family videos. Photos of the kids at ages they'll never be again. Birthday parties. Road trips. Stupid little moments that don't matter to anyone but us, and that's exactly why they mattered so much.
We stored them on platforms that promised convenience. Upload once, access anywhere. Sounds great until “anywhere” becomes “nowhere” because some algorithm flagged your account.
And here's the thing: we weren't alone. This has happened to thousands of creators, activists, and regular people who said something that didn't fit the narrative of the week. The censorship hammer doesn't just hit “dangerous voices.” It hits anyone the system decides is inconvenient.
That's when we stopped asking permission and started building.
From Tenant to Owner: The Pivot
When you rent, the landlord has all the power. When you own, you control the foundation.
We decided to stop being digital tenants. That meant moving everything we could into spaces where we control the infrastructure, the backups, and the access. Places where no single company could flip a switch and erase us.
This isn't about being paranoid. It's about being realistic. If something can be deleted, it probably will be. If it can be censored, it will be censored eventually. That's not conspiracy theory, it's probability.
So we built a system. Three layers of defense:
- Archive everything publicly so it's preserved even if we disappear.
- Open-source the tools so anyone can replicate what we're doing.
- Distribute across platforms that don't play by Silicon Valley's rules.
Here's how we did it, and how you can too.
The Arsenal: Archive.org, GitHub, and Rumble
Archive.org: The Memory Hole Insurance
First stop: Archive.org/details/@veracitylife
The Internet Archive is one of the last truly open repositories on the web. It's a nonprofit library that archives everything, websites, videos, books, audio. And unlike Facebook or YouTube, they're not going to delete your content because someone reported it for “misinformation.”
We upload everything there. Podcasts. Radio mixes. Commentary. Even family videos (the ones we don't mind being public). Once it's archived, it's there. Permanently. Indexed. Searchable. Preserved.
If someone tries to memory-hole our content again, they can't. It's already in the library.
This is digital sovereignty at its most basic: you can't censor what you don't control.
And the best part? Anyone can do this. You don't need special access. Just create an account and start uploading. Back up your YouTube channel. Archive your blog. Save your photos. Make it impossible for any single company to erase you.
GitHub: The Armory
Second layer: GitHub.com/veracitylife
GitHub is where we store the code. The blueprints. The tools we built to run our own platform without begging Big Tech for permission.
We've developed free, open-source software for:
- Radio broadcasting and automation
- Content distribution systems
- Search and indexing tools (like the GnosticBible SuperSearch WordPress Plugin)
- Archival infrastructure so anyone can run their own digital library
Why give it away for free? Because the fight against censorship isn't about hoarding tools, it's about making it impossible to silence people. If 10,000 creators are running their own platforms using our code, that's 10,000 platforms that can't be shut down by a single CEO's bad day.
This is the libertarian model in action: distribute power, decentralize control, and make tyranny expensive.
If you're a podcaster, a musician, a content creator, or just someone who's tired of living at the mercy of algorithms, grab the software. It's yours. Fork it. Improve it. Use it to build something they can't take down.
Rumble: The Video Refuge
Third layer: Rumble.com/user/Disruptarian
Rumble isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than YouTube when it comes to not banning you for saying the wrong thing.
We moved all our video content there. Not because Rumble is ideologically pure or because they're immune to pressure, but because they have different incentives. They're building a business model that doesn't rely on advertiser-friendly censorship.
And that's enough.
You don't need a perfect platform. You just need one that won't delete you for having an opinion. Rumble has proven (so far) to be that platform.
The strategy here is simple: diversify your distribution. Don't put all your content on one platform. Spread it across multiple services with different ownership structures, different revenue models, and different jurisdictions.
If one bans you, the others are still live. If two ban you, the archives remain. And if all of them go down, you still have the GitHub repos and the tools to rebuild.
The “Free Archives” Strategy: Use Everything You Can
Beyond the big three, we use every free archive we can find.
- Wayback Machine snapshots of important pages
- IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) for decentralized hosting
- Peer-to-peer backup networks run by people who actually care about free speech
- Local hard drives (old school, but it works)
The principle is redundancy. If it matters, back it up five times in five different places. Make it so hard to erase that no one can be bothered trying.
This is digital prepping. And in 2026, it's not paranoia, it's basic self-defense.
Why This Matters: It's Not Just About Us
Here's the thing: we're not special. We're not the only ones who got deplatformed. We're not the only ones who lost irreplaceable content.
This is happening to independent journalists. Musicians. Activists. Small business owners. Parents who posted the wrong thing in a school board meeting. People who asked the wrong questions during a crisis.
Big Tech censorship isn't about “dangerous misinformation.” It's about control. And the only way to break that control is to stop depending on them.
That's why we're building in the open. That's why the software is free. That's why the archives are public.
Because if we can do it, you can do it. And if enough of us do it, they can't stop all of us.
The Call to Action: Grab the Tools and Start Building
Here's what you can do right now:
- Back up your content. Everything. Photos, videos, posts, podcasts. Use Archive.org. Use local drives. Use whatever works. Just don't leave it on someone else's server as your only copy.
- Check out our GitHub. Download the free software. Run your own radio station. Build your own content library. Take control of your platform.
- Diversify your distribution. Don't rely on one platform. Spread your content across multiple services. Make it impossible to silence you with one ban.
- Share the tools. If you know someone who got deplatformed, send them this post. If you know a creator who's one strike away from deletion, tell them about the archives. The more people who build their own infrastructure, the harder censorship becomes.
This isn't about being anti-technology. It's about being pro-freedom. The internet was supposed to be decentralized. It was supposed to be a place where anyone could speak and anyone could listen.
We're bringing that back. One archive, one repo, one platform at a time.
Sources & Tools
- VeracityLife Archive.org Collection: https://archive.org/details/@veracitylife
- VeracityLife GitHub (Open Source Tools): https://github.com/veracitylife
- GnosticBible SuperSearch Plugin: https://github.com/veracitylife/GnosticBible-SuperSearch-WordPress-Plugin
- Disruptarian Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/user/Disruptarian
- Disruptarian Blog (More Anti-Censorship Commentary): https://disruptarian.com/blog/open-source-anti-censorship-tools-veracity-life
- Digital Sovereignty Overview (EU Data Act & GDPR Context): Referenced from 2026 strategic frameworks on data and infrastructure independence
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