I’ve lived in both big cities and small towns. In big cities, I’m usually anonymous and can blend in as just another nameless person on the street. Most people don’t even really see me. There are some advantages to that but for more than twenty years I’ve lived in rural southwest Washington State. Here you get to know people. I can hardly go to town without stopping to talk with an old friend or two. I’ve finalized business deals by shaking hands. I go to church and community meetings with local elected officials and count several as friends. At this level, reputation and integrity matters.

Perhaps that’s why I don’t put much faith in social media.

Ben Shapiro is a brand within The Daily Wire brand. He’s a founder and editor of the site and hosts a daily podcast and a live radio show. Perhaps that isn’t enough to keep him busy because last year he created a new video podcast titled Debunked, which I’ll discuss in detail later.

As internet privacy concerns have grown so has DuckDuckGo with over ten million daily searches on average. However, in a recent tweet, DDG founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, stated that the company would update its search algorithm to down-rank Russian disinformation sites and they would pause its relationship with the Russian-state-owned search engine Yandex. This has outraged some users.

People might expect movies produced by conservatives to have a bland story, stiff acting with a heavy dose of pandering. Shut In has none of those issues. It’s not a perfect movie, it has a slow start but it really picks up, and along the way, it has a lot of surprises.

CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times often lean so far left that they get basic facts wrong. Examples abound, such as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial or about Trump-Russia collusion. However, a new, grassroots media, is emerging. Founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, The Daily Wire is a fast-growing Internet media company, that works from a conservative perspective to get the facts right. A variety of shows are daily released online.

I think every American should know that in 2009 then Google CEO Eric Schmidt, stated, “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.” To me, that sounds like a statement from a high Soviet or Chinese official—not an American.

YouTube is a subsidiary of Google which is a subsidiary of Alphabet. These are the same people that brought you Google search, the Chrome browser, and Fitbit. Like other big tech companies, YouTube has made a sport of stifling conservative voices.

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook had a gradual rollout, becoming widely available in 2004. The site now has nearly three billion users and earns revenue by collecting information about each of them. Advertisers can then use that information to better target their ads. Facebook may say the site is free but, users give up personal information to use the platform. TNSTAAFL, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Why is any conservative still on Twitter? Founded by Jack Dorsey in 2006, the microblogging and social networking service has made a habit of banning conservative viewpoints.

While you surf the internet you’re being watched. If you use Chrome, by far the most popular browser, Google is watching. Safari reports to Apple and Edge to Microsoft. Those three browsers make up eighty-five percent of the user market.