Andrew Torba didn’t choose the unauthorized life. The unauthorized life was forced upon him.
They made me (and many others) untouchable, unemployable, unfundable, and always deplatformed. Our only remaining move was to make their malice common knowledge and move the Overton Window until truth became the default position. They should just have let me build a free speech social network in peace; instead, my life’s work is now to build the consensus that will destroy their grasp on our nation.
That’s why we just keep building and rebuilding. It’s not because we’re persistent, committed, or even stubborn. It’s because we literally don’t see ourselves as having a choice, when the choice is between a) taking the ticket and b) not selling your soul.
Speaking of things that are unauthorized, please be advised that now everyone has a payment option, the paywalls on UATV will be going up on September 1st. We’re in rebuilding mode, which means it’s only going to get stronger and better from this point on, while the mainstream platforms are killing themselves with algorithmic suppression, dead notification systems, and a new round of deplatformings.