Believe it or not, we're coming into the home straight.
A day like this goes by so quickly.
We are entering the final round, now with two real luminaries of the IT industry.
Millions feared for the main speaker while he was locked up for months, completely innocent.
But as soon as he is released, he shows his profile anew and demonstrates unbending civil courage.
He is interviewed by our fourth son Elias.
Elias is an IT expert - he heads up hundreds of technicians at Kla.TV and AZK, including all our IT specialists.
Elias is also responsible for our entire technical infrastructure and he himself will round off the main presentation
with a new IT creation that he and his crew are working on.
But let's first take a look at the life story of the man - let me say - who should really be hailed as a hero of our time.
I say: "Welcome to the 20th AZK - Michael Ballweg!"
- Michael Ballweg is a German entrepreneur and software developer from Stuttgart.
- Born in 1974 in Wertheim am Main, Germany.
- 1996 dual studies at the Stuttgart University of Cooperative Education, graduating in
1998 with a degree in business administration.
- In 1998, he founded the IT company media access GmbH with an international workforce.
His major customers included Bosch, ZF, thyssenkrupp, Mercedes Benz and many more.
He has realized over 120 projects for Robert Bosch GmbH.
- In 2020, he sold an IT product to Bosch for half a million euros because the desire for change and a
year-long trip around the world urged him to do so.
But then came corona, lockdowns, the internet censorship of competent expert voices, bans on demonstrations and much more.
Shaken awake by these events, he began to campaign at his own expense for the preservation
of democracy, the Basic Law and open debate.
- Michael Ballweg founded the "Querdenken" movement and brought what was probably the largest extra-parliamentary
opposition in Germany onto the streets during the pandemic.
- Since 2022, he has been using his in-depth IT knowledge to promote freedom in the digital space.
- In June 2022, the public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart arrested Ballweg on charges of fraud and
money laundering in connection with Querdenken-711.
- After 9 months in prison, Michael Ballweg was released after the charges were reduced to "incompetent attempted fraud".
- As he did not submit his tax return from prison on time, he is also accused of attempted tax evasion.
- His financial resources are still frozen today.
- All attempts to incapacitate Michael Ballweg have failed to date and have been unable
to extinguish the fire of his convictions.
Michael Ballweg is a guest at the 20th AZK in conversation with Elias Sasek, IT expert and son of AZK founder Ivo Sasek, on the
topic: "Digital freedom in times of ubiquitous AI surveillance".
Yes, Michael, it's a great honor to have you with us.
FOCUS online and the leading media have called you "the most dangerous leader of the
lateral thinking movement". I think that was right.
We did such dangerous things as meditate and stood up for peace and freedom, danced a lot at the demos, showed that we simply
weren't going along with it. And that's why, on a spiritual level, we are of course very dangerous for the existing system.
A question that naturally interests us all now, especially after this clip: What happened after your detention?
What has become of this indictment? Is it all closed now or are negotiations and court dates still open? Where do you stand?
Yes, I'm actually doing what I wanted to do in 2020.
I'm going on a trip around the world now, in a slightly different way.
I'm here with you today and I'm very happy, I think it's a very nice environment. So thank you very much for the invitation too.
What happens next in the proceedings? First of all, the Stuttgart Regional Court has
decided that the indictment will not be admitted.
The Higher Regional Court then decided that the case should now go to trial. 60 trial days have been scheduled from October 1.
You can look at other court cases and see how many days are set aside for more serious crimes: Much, much less.
In other words, they obviously want to keep me and my lawyer, Ralf Ludwig, busy and then ruin me financially,
because a court case like this also costs a lot of money.
My funds are all frozen, but I'm still organizing a big demonstration in Berlin this year.
I am simply showing that we will not be discouraged, but that we will constantly continue on our
path, our peaceful path, but the path we have chosen.
Yes, you've hinted at it now. From 2020 to 2022, you brought incredible demos to the stage, to the people.
We all certainly remember August 1, 2020.
The police told you that there were over 800,000 participants. That's what you said in your book "Correction!". The leading
media then said in the Tagesschau etc.: "There were 20,000."
Tell us what we can expect right now.
Yes, August 3rd is coming next week.
We will have a big demo parade starting again at 12 noon.
It is very important to me that "lateral thinking" has always been a decentralized movement.
And August 1st was so great because the main stage was occupied and lots of participants had their demonstration equipment with
them. And then the demo on Straße des 17. Juni really got going.
And that is exactly what we are now focusing on. The movement has decentralized. Now we are bringing it back together.
But of course I hope that many initiatives will come with their own program, because there are four themes.
One is the topic of "coming to terms with corona", the topic of "freedom", which also includes the topic of "digital
freedom", the topic of "peace", which is very important at the moment. But also this topic: "offers of change".
Because a lot of people want to change, but they don't know where the offers are.
And that's why every initiative can come to Berlin with a truck, with its own truck, and then
present its range of solutions, its program for change.
Yes, awesome. Will we be there next week?
Nice. We are looking forward to it. It's sure to be another great event.
We wish you all the best and we will support you wherever we can and will come too. Wonderful.
Thank you.
Yes, let's get to the core topic of our conversation.
We heard your career earlier, an incredible career. You also call yourself a "digital activist".
Your website digitaler-aktivist.de has a guiding principle that I would like to read out briefly.
There you write: "Lateral thinking stands for personal responsibility and self-determination. Of
course, this also applies to the digital space."
AI , digital surveillance, is also a topic at this 20th AZK and we are now talking about it.
And I'll take two brief quotes as the basis for our conversation.
For example, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that data is the new oil and the new gold. Now that's a
blatant statement. Oil, gold. He says it's the new gold.
The second quote is from WEF advisor Yuval Noah Harari , who says: "Whoever controls the data controls the future
- not just of humanity, but the future of life itself."
We now have many people here today who are not so technically familiar with data. What
happens to data? How does it work? And so on.
How should we understand these two statements? What does this mean in practice?
How does it work in this day and age that such blatant statements are made by personalities?
Yuval Noah Harari, in particular, is being praised by everyone here. Bill Gates, Mark
Zuckerberg and so on. Can you explain that to us?
Yes, you only have to look at the share prices of these companies.
These are now the largest corporations in the world - and therefore also the most powerful. This has created
a concentration of power that is naturally unhealthy.
We were all lured into these systems by the fact that they were very user-friendly or very simple. There was still a time when
cell phones were given away. For one euro, you could add them to your contract so that
you could get into these digital ecosystems.
You have to know that nothing in this world is free, at least if you look at the existing economic constructs.
And if I don't pay with my money, then of course I pay with my data.
And why do these large corporations have such an interest in our data? Because they can use it to create personality profiles.
And I say, in the best case scenario, they use it for manipulation through advertising. I think one or two people have
already thought about that. You're talking at the table about some topic, vacation in Spain. The next
day, an advertisement pops up: Travel offers Spain.
In other words, these digital devices - and Edward Snowden made this public back in 2014 - are permanently on
and they are constantly monitoring us. And now, of course, AI is making it even more perfidious.
Some of you may know. There are huge data centers in the Nevada desert, run by the NSA , where all this data comes together.
And until now, you had to go to the trouble of sending all this data to Nevada and processing it centrally at great expense.
And now comes the next technology. This means that the AI comes directly to your cell phone, listens in
constantly, creates a personality profile of you and then only needs to send this cumulative data set.
And why is privacy so important? I also want to address this point because many people say:
"Yes, I have nothing to hide, I don't care."
So, the first thing is, of course, that it is used massively for manipulation. But a second
important point is that the internet forgets nothing.
And when I look at Kla.TV, for example - and I am aware of this. And at some point Kla.TV would become illegal and a
government would say: "This program is now illegal," then of course you could find out who all the users are.
And you never know, laws are very flexible these days... Then you could also say: "Retroactively,
everyone now gets an administrative offense for it."
So, you just really have to be aware that the Internet forgets nothing.
That's why, for me, privacy is also digital self-defense.
We must actively defend fundamental rights that are taken away from us. And that is the idea of the "digital activist".
Lateral thinking is always a peaceful movement, and we peacefully withdraw our energy from
the other side by simply no longer participating.
We are not involved in coronavirus measures or vaccinations. And we no longer voluntarily give our data to large corporations
so that they can do the things I have just described.
Great!
And the second quote from Harari, I want to touch on that briefly as well.
So the person who knows the book "1984", where history is always rewritten, that's what he's referring to.
Because who ultimately controls the data, who controls the big AIs... we are currently experiencing a shift away
from the search engine to the AI that answers our questions.
At the moment, these AIs still function relatively neutrally, but they can of course be changed at the touch
of a button and then tell a completely different story.
Then you have to imagine: The pupils, the children, are then taught these tools at school,
and then they are told a completely new story.
The books no longer exist, or it is simply no longer en vogue to read books.
And the person who has access to the data and who controls it then also determines the story and actually determines the truth.
Yes, very well explained, thank you very much.
But now in our society, if you don't have a cell phone, you're really excluded.
Well, you have to know that I use my smartphone very consciously, consistently, for example only with an internet
cable, only the apps that really can't be used any other way.
But if you don't want to be completely excluded from communication - or even from the tax office - you are simply excluded.
And here I would like to talk about a project that you are driving forward, which I am very excited about. You call it the "freedom
cell phone", and you have developed practical solutions here.
I think it's brilliant how you do things practically. You don't say: "You should do it, you should do it," but
you sit down and say: "Nobody's done it yet, I'll do it."
Let's hear it for that!
Yes, why don't you tell us what this "freedom cell phone" is all about? How did you come up with it? How does it work?
I would first like to say a sentence on the subject of "using a smartphone" or not.
Well, we are a modern society. We don't want to go back to the Stone Age.
And I'm an IT entrepreneur, so I'm familiar with it. I want to have modern tools with which I can work easily and productively.
But what I don't want is: I don't want the other party to siphon off my data all the time.
What happened next: In 2021, lots of pictures from the lateral thinking demos went black
on my phone, including videos. That was Apple.
Apple has suddenly blacked out data under the motto: "We protect you and therefore scan your device".
And it was clear to me just how far this digital censorship has already gone.
And then I simply looked on the Internet - there is open source software, which is free
software that is freely available on the Internet.
Open source simply means that you can also view the source code.
It is developed by people who - in contrast to large corporations - enjoy making offers.
And that's when I came across LineageOS, as it's called. It's a free operating system for
cell phones that supports around 250 phones.
And then I said: "I'll just give it a try."
Of course, I also come from the Apple ecosystem. It wasn't easy to get out of that. That's why I did it in parallel.
So I still had my old iPhone and then set up this new cell phone at the same time, so that at some point I actually only needed
the new cell phone. And I think that's what's important when you make changes like this, that you don't make the hard cut and
then perhaps suffer and say: "Now I'm no longer fit for work."
And yes, when my devices were all taken away from me and I got out of prison, I naturally only started using the new one.
Because I'm a pioneer, whether it's digital communication or the topic of money.
I no longer have a bank account. That means I'm also working a lot on solutions at the moment. How can you live like this?
Importantly, all videos are available for free on the "digital activist" website. We have always given everything away.
There are also workshops for those who don't have the confidence to do it themselves. But the idea is
actually for local groups to form and organize themselves.
There are always people who have a little more technical understanding. Others have other talents. And
if you help each other, that multiplies very quickly.
I do the same as with "Querdenken". We formed decentralized groups for "Querdenken".
There is already a "digital activist Munich" and a "digital activist Berlin".
That it multiplies much faster than if I were to run 20 training courses with 20 participants in a year.
We reached 400 people. And that is simply not enough for me.
So did I understand correctly, this work that you did to set up this "freedom mobile" - all these instructions, these weeks
of work that it took - you can study it yourself for free here on digitaler-aktivist.de, form local groups and implement it?
Yes, the principle of open source is that you can help yourself.
And open source is of course not just about actively writing code and perhaps helping out.
It's also about creating these training videos and explaining to people how it works.
This is also an active part of open source.
And we found this great free preliminary work that others have done.
And that is now our contribution, that we simply say we are helping.
And product development consists of many parts. So, I usually have software development. Then I also have
quality assurance. But then, of course, I also have documentation, instructions and support.
Software developers don't really like writing documentation. That's why we said: we'll adopt
this path and make it really easy for people.
An incredible job, incredible work.
Yes, I would now like to ask a question that was the subject of heated discussion here in Switzerland a few weeks ago.
And it has come to light that US companies - a journalist contacted them and was able to buy cell phone
transaction data from 1.3 million Swiss cell phones for a few thousand francs. This has now happened here, in Switzerland.
The journalist has shown exactly where the cell phone was and when and says: "I have this data
legally. I sell this data for marketing purposes.
1.3 million, that is - out of 8 million - almost 20 percent.
And now the question: The freedom cell phone - wouldn't my data with the freedom cell
phone now be offered for sale by these companies?
That shows how much we are monitored. And they say this data is anonymous.
But you can't tell me that if you can see the location data and the location is at the same point from 12 o'clock in the evening
to 5 o'clock in the morning, then you know where he lives. And you can see who is behind it, you just have to compare it.
Has this danger been averted with the "freedom cell phone"?
Yes, absolutely. Because it's about ... For example, many people no longer read the terms of use.
So, when I use Google Maps or Google for navigation, the product works so well because lots of
people are constantly sending their data to it.
And of course Google analyzes it and makes a great product out of it, in the sense that I can then see the live data immediately.
I can also share other people's locations and follow everything.
And as I said earlier, the product is free. So we are the product.
And that's why these companies can then sell this data.
It goes so far that Facebook, I believe, has already said: If you upload an image, the image rights belong to us. Many people
don't know that either. This is also happening now with many AIs.
There was an actress in the USA who objected to being artificially created by an AI.
And she lost because she had not observed the terms of use.
In other words, she now lives as a virtual avatar, so to speak. These companies can use it license-free.
And that's exactly what we're doing by simply using this open source solution, which is data-efficient
and doesn't send any data to any large corporations.
And of course I can also actively switch off the various functions on the cell phone, regardless of
whether I switch off the location function or the WLAN.
Well, many people don't know that either. WLAN is also used for positioning and mapping.
And I can switch all these things off there. But of course I have to do it consciously again and again.
We had a look at my cell phone this afternoon. I actually still had the tracking switched on. I have to admit that.
You always have to get used to it and remember to do it actively.
Very good. Yes.
Before we open the next barrel, two or three quick questions.
Which operating system on the computer, not on the cell phone, do you currently recommend?
Yes, I would take the Linux. Well, because that's also open source.
You can no longer trust the big corporations. There are really only two alternatives, Apple and Microsoft.
Microsoft has just announced with "Recall" that they photograph the screen, I think 60 times per hour, or even per minute.
Just for our safety, of course. So that if we can't remember what we did on the computer, they can play it back to us.
Of course they use this for their AIs.
And Apple used to be a very privacy-focused company. But it isn't any more, now that Steve Jobs has - well, at
least "left the physical plane", many things have changed.
Which browser?
Personally, I use the Brave browser.
It's simply a browser that already includes a lot of data economy and data security. It also blocks a lot of advertising.
So it lets me focus on energy, on what's really on the screen.
Which search engine?
So I'm using two at the moment. The one from Brave, they have their own search engine and Quant.
And of course there is a whole list of alternative search engines that you can set up there.
Of course, I would no longer use Bing from Microsoft or Google. These can also be set here.
But everyone can decide that for themselves.
Great, but gives us a good direction. Thank you very much.
Let's move on to the next topic. Hot topic.
What has been done with our Internet?
We've been talking together these days. And you have more experience than I do. You've been in the business much earlier.
And you just said - well, that was a statement that really bothered me:
You say that the Internet used to be truly decentralized.
So it means it was really decentralized. And what do we have today?
We have YouTube, Facebook, TikTok. I could list Google, I could list a few more... but that would be the end of it.
We have big data octopuses that are like octopuses on the web, that collect this data, that need our data to train AIs.
But the decentralization has been lost.
If I now look not only at this, but also at the corona period, you have to ask which of the enlighteners has not lost their YouTube
channel, for example. Censorship is rampant in these areas.
And you have started a project here, also to show the enlightened a way out.
With you, I always notice the word decentralization very strongly... to ensure this decentralization and not
give power to big data octopuses that censor you and so on.
The keyword here is PeerTube - I saw you make advances in this a few years ago.
Why don't you take us inside? What is PeerTube? How does it work, or decentralization in general here on the Internet?
How do we really get back to the Internet as it was originally intended?
So I would go a bit further, if it's okay. Because then I'll just go into the history of the internet.
So the internet used to be a military project. In the sense of, if it comes to a major nuclear war, then we are
now building a system where parts can fail and yet everyone can still communicate with each other.
Or the military structures can still communicate about it.
And then the Internet was opened up. Then there was e-mail. It's been decentralized right from the start, of course.
We communicate directly when we use decentralized services.
That means you have your own e-mail server, I have my own e-mail server.
And then, of course, the system recognized that this was a great danger and built central systems around it.
We know that these large corporations we are talking about now were partly financed by the CIA in the early stages.
In other words, the CIA had a hand in the early stages of financing because they were naturally
interested in centralizing this decentralized network again.
And how do you do that? By simply offering services like Google, like Facebook, like WhatsApp, which
are of course free of charge and which everyone uses.
And in the end, when I see how people use their cell phones today, they may have a lot of apps on them, but they don't
actually use the Internet in this decentralized form anymore.
Decentralized also means that everyone has their own website.
We used to have search engines that didn't work like Google with AdWords, where everyone now has to advertise and pay for
their website to be at the top... Instead, there really were real search engines where these pages could be found.
And you also have to say that if we look at the constitution and the constitution of society, these large
corporations and these centralized monolithic systems are in conflict with our constitutional rights.
So, the subsidiarity principle applies here. This means that the municipality decides for itself.
And we also have to take a look at ourselves. After all, we all took part.
In other words, the system we live in today is nothing other than the result of our actions, in which
we have not yet defended ourselves at an early stage.
I didn't realize how blatant it was until 2020. Edward Snowden, as I mentioned earlier, revealed it earlier.
Of course, WikiLeaks has already made many things public. So the enlightenment was there, it just
didn't reach people or we were too comfortable to change.
And that's why it's very important to me that every impulse I get - like my YouTube channel being deleted,
for example - I go into the change and look at it.
I'm not fighting to be allowed back on YouTube because, you have to say, the financial power of the other side is so powerful.
Maybe I'll win the court case, then YouTube will delete me again, then it will cost me the next
court case and 20, 30, 40,000 euros is nothing.
And the question is: How do I use the resources I have at my disposal in a meaningful way?
And then I also looked at what alternatives there are to YouTube.
Then I found this PeerTube server. I thought, that's great. Then we'll upload everything to our
PeerTube server. We are censorship-free there.
So PeerTube is your own server where you set it up?
It's my own server, which runs a video portal, which is also, of course, inspired by Apolut or
KenFM in the past, which suffered the same fate.
Kayvan is also very visionary in the sense that he sees the things that happen.
And we've seen that the big corporations don't like us. And that's why our own PeerTube server is actually important.
We are now in a phase of upheaval. That doesn't mean it's over just because we've had a period of relaxation.
You also have your own PeerTube server. And of course I have to add a bit of criticism to the movement.
Some of our hits were 50,000, 60,000. And now that everything has calmed down again, everything is switching back to YouTube.
And a lot of people still try their luck on YouTube and say: "Oh, if I make another channel
now, I'll get the reach". You just don't get it.
Because I think you have 120,000 subscribers yourselves and the AI and the algorithm are just downgrading you like that.
That means it's simply wasted energy for me.
And that's why this PeerTube project is so important to me. Because injustice can only take place in the dark.
And if we put a spotlight on it, with the truth... it is very important that we document this time.
If we didn't have such a PeerTube server, then all the documentation from all the demonstrations would actually be gone.
And then we would be back to 1984. Who will write the story, the leading media? Because we can no longer prove what happened.
So let me repeat briefly. The vision would actually be that the individual enlightenment movements, every
enlightener or every enlightenment medium says, I'll set up my own PeerTube server, decentralized.
And we are networking with each other. And will be networked and together somehow form a new YouTube that is
decentralized as opposed to the data octopus YouTube.
But that's not what happened. You mentioned the keyword "convenience". I would like to go into this again briefly.
I perceive it that way too. It's just tedious. With YouTube, Telegram, all these messengers , you have
everything right in front of you. You can scroll this way and that. And click into the website everywhere.
It takes a bit of effort. Is a decentralized Internet more strenuous?
It's not more strenuous. I think it's more that people are not used to it.
And there are all these mechanisms. It was just this beautiful picture to see how an organism is networked.
That's practically the real Internet. Because there I can take out one page and all the others are still there.
And we simply have to ask ourselves again: How do we want to live?
And if I say I want to live a self-determined life in the municipality offline, then I also want to do the same online.
And every municipality or community should actually have its own decentralized systems.
That goes on. It's not just about the PeerTube server. It's also about where do I store my data?
Are they in the cloud at Google and Microsoft and Apple ? Or do I have them locally with me again?
So this whole issue of data sovereignty is a very important one.
And it's simply a matter of getting used to it. I also showed you our systems the day before yesterday, how we are working
decentrally again and how we are also supporting the initiatives.
And it's like when you change cars. Some people drive the same brand of car their whole lives because they
can't imagine the change - I'm switching from brand A to brand B - or don't want to make the change.
There is a nice saying that goes: "Life takes place where you have not yet been. Everything else is repetition".
And that's why everyone has to think about how long they want to live in repetition, or
whether we should simply try something new.
And I believe that it is up to us, the media or the independent media, to ensure that the systems become
more visible and user-friendly. But of course this is only possible if they are used.
Because, of course, nothing is more frustrating for a service provider when they say: I offer a great portal here and
in the end it is not used. That's another resource issue.
And the other topic, which for me is really part of it, is the topic of truth.
This means storing these things securely so that they can no longer be deleted and cannot be censored.
Because we are living in, let's say, a time of great upheaval.
And if we don't, let's say, preserve the truth so that it can be used at some point in a reappraisal phase
(which will happen), then I think we have forgotten an important step that is also part of our work.
Very good.
I believe that very important points have been addressed here.
And I say, I think we should do it again like we did at the beginning of the Internet, that everyone
creates their own link lists, knows where to find whom, and goes through these link lists.
And who knows, maybe something will come up anyway that you can use to set up a search engine.
But we have also talked about a search engine, for example, via peer-to-peer instances, etc.
There are a lot of problems that arise there.
Who is allowed in the search engine and who is not? What do you do if someone uploads really unauthorized
pornographic material? There are a thousand questions.
We are not there yet. But we are seeing decentralization, creating link lists, going there, strengthening
decentralization and taking this path. And it will pay off.
I would like to briefly address one more topic: Telegram Messenger. Do you have a solution there too?
People used to say, Telegram, no, it's not censored. Today, we've reached the point where they're under so much
pressure that the App Store version is already censored. You have to work around things again.
Is there also a decentralization in communication where you see a next step for decentralization?
Yes, absolutely.
What we have now experienced on YouTube or what we have now experienced with large corporations
is being transferred to other large corporations.
Telegram is also a large company, I believe it now has 900 million users, with strong growth.
And of course these systems are being actively attacked by governments and the EU.
And for me, this is another issue: I no longer trust any central system because it can be attacked.
I think Telegram is a wonderful thing. It was given to us as a gift.
We have to imagine if the whole corona period had taken place without Telegram. We would have been standing
there with our pants down and would have had few options.
But we also have to see this as a transition tool. And there's a great thing called the matrix.
Decentralized too?
Matrix is completely decentralized, again with its own server.
I also want to say something about the costs. Having your own server always sounds expensive, but today it's no
longer expensive. You can get away with five euros a month.
You need two. One server that practically takes over the communication, one that takes over the backup.
And then decentralized groups can get together again - securely, highly encrypted. You also have to say that
Telegram is unencrypted. Many people don't know that.
Everything that takes place on Telegram, unless you activate the encryption function,
which it has, takes place unencrypted per se.
And that's why I think it's also highly interesting for the services.
There is also Signal as an alternative and Threema. However, both of these are also centralized systems which, if they
become relevant, will certainly be forced to disclose their data due to pressure from the services and governments.
There was this vote on "chat control" in the EU, which hasn't gone through for the time being.
But we know, as Jean-Claude Juncker said, we try something and wait to see how big the outcry is.
And then we'll just try it again and keep going.
And that's why we have the "Matrix" theme. The software for this on the computer is called "Element".
That's a bit ..., you have to get your head around it.
So you have a server called Matrix and the software on the cell phone is called Element.
For example, and this is very important, you really get your privacy back because it is simply encrypted.
You can do lots of things using this convenient manager.
You can also make phone calls. You can have video conferences, so just 1:1 conferences.
And I actually use it for all my communication.
This means that when I make a call, I make it via Matrix, via my own server, where the communication is encrypted. With
the other user, who also has encrypted data on his server.
And the audio quality, for example, is much, much better and clearer than when communicating via the existing networks.
Yes, madness, madness. I think it would be worth investing in training here too, don't
you? Would we actually have to keep at it?
I will also introduce a new product after your presentation.
But I think it would be worth investing here to give people the tools they need to take the next step towards decentralization.
You said it very well: Telegram Messenger was like a transition. We don't know what's coming.
We don't know how the whole AI wave will come about. We don't know where the governments will
strike, what they will ban and what they won't.
But a new window opens here, a new door opens.
And I would say there is nothing else. We have to go down this path, but we simply have to win.
We have to continue to educate people. We also need to get out of, let's say, technology.
You did a very good job with the demos. You networked people regionally and started local
initiatives. That's the model for the future, isn't it?
And the connection, the connection from heart to heart, cannot be censored. It is not possible.
And I would just like to add a brief advertisement. We also do this local networking as Kla.TV and AZK teams.
Local networking is important. Please get in touch, viewers, at www.kla.tv/Vernetzung if you would like to
be networked by a regional networker in your region.
Today's AZK is of course a prime example, local groups everywhere have come together to be here on this day. Let's build on that.
And a huge thank you to you for your work, for your selflessness, for your dedication.
It's incredible. Thank you, Michael.
Thank you very much.
Beautiful.
The demo is just around the corner. We have to let you go with a heavy heart.
All the best to you. Much strength, much success. We are with you.
Those who can't be there will be there in their thoughts.
We will also find the next step here together as enlightenment movements.
Thank you very much.
See you again soon then.
Yes, wonderful. I think Michael's comments have given us all a very good insight into the topic
The physical connection is extremely important. I would like to add one more thing.
We have now all seen how censorship works with the banning of Compact magazine. Michael has said it's another crackdown.
Here, too, with our own servers, we don't know what will happen, what legal requirements will come, that even our own
servers will have to be shut down because the providers will be forced to shut down the program. Anything can become a law.
That's why I really liked the focus on personal networking.
Of course, these comments should not be understood as an advertisement, e.g. to buy a cell phone, etc.
Today we have the topic of mobile phone radiation, for example - a huge topic that we haven't even touched on yet.
There are many people among us with radiation damage who are right when they say: "Avoiding cell phones is the solution".
I just want to emphasize, we're not cell phone advocates here either, all that radiation exposure and everything.
But we simply have to make the best of the time for each individual, each in the situation they are in
And here Michael has given us great guidance with the freedom cell phone.
As announced, I am now allowed to continue and present a new product.
We have just heard from Michael that he has worked out ways for the "freedom cell phone".
And we did something similar, or along the same lines, with the computers.
I'll tell you briefly what it's all about and take you into the last part.
Yes, this is a historic day, which also brings with it an anniversary gift. And this anniversary gift is actually intended
to answer the question: "What can each individual do right now?"
Michael and I also spoke earlier about these long-term goals, and that all takes time. But what can
each individual do when they leave this conference?
That is the big question that keeps us busy. We can talk a lot, but where is the next step, where is it necessary, where can
each individual really take action and escape this AI octopus .
And, I would like to repeat very briefly, the "AI octopus" is spreading everywhere, it wants to get its hands on
our data. I'll just briefly mention three facts that underline how far this has already progressed.
Microsoft revised its service contract at the end of 2023 and now grants itself full rights to your data.
I can't go into too much detail here, there are also lawyers who study the texts, how far it goes, how far it doesn't go.
I won't go into that now... But Microsoft has taken the rights to your data from everyone who has a Windows operating system.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden writes about Apple's latest surveillance tools:
"Apple has just declared war on your privacy".
Michael has explained it. The pictures on the cell phones are suddenly blacked out.
Meta, Facebook, WhatsApp they all want to use the data for their AI training, take trends, AI training, data everywhere.
And now the question is, what can each individual do directly to minimize the risk of surveillance?
I ask myself this question, and I have come to the conclusion that it is like a principle in life that we have
often learned from an early age, including from our father.
He always taught us that you have to carry away the big stones first, I say, and then the next steps will follow.
And I asked myself here: What is the big stone in the key where we are all really affected? Where can we say we can take this
step to counteract the whole craze, the whole AI training craze?
And I'll say this big stone is very clear to me. We have to get out of the clouds of Microsoft, Apple and the big
players, we have to cut our operating systems off from this cloud. That is the first step that I see very clearly.
Switching to Linux etc. is something we are all striving for, it is a process that we are continuing.
But that is the first step. And this step, I'd say there's more to it, but this step is what our anniversary gift is all about.
Let me briefly explain the consequences of connecting your computer to the cloud today and
the extent to which this is already happening.
It's like the omniscient AI can decide - you wrote a document about hate speech, so you can't log into your computer anymore.
And this is not a future scenario, it is already the case that if we are connected to this computer, to the cloud in this way, then
people will no longer be able to log in. You all know that sad little face on YouTube: No longer available! It's
like this and then you're standing in front of your computer, you have no more data, you're switched off.
And the new AZK campaign that we want to present to you now addresses precisely this point: We want to get the big stones out
of the way, provide guidance on how to separate the big stones of this AI connection, even if it is not
possible to switch to new systems in the short term.
This campaign is called anti-control, www.anti-control.info is based on the website anti-zensur.info.
We have taken the time in this project to work out really simple, well-founded, understandable instructions. For all of you out
there and they are accessible with a guide on how to set up your computers so that the
major obstacles are, as I said, out of the way.
Let's take a quick look at this website. How do you get to this website?
This is possible via the official website. There's a new button at the top here. It's now called: anti-control.info. You can click
on it or, of course, use the direct link www.anti-control.info.
The website is structured in such a way that there are instructions for various products. It really
covers a lot of things - you can click on them, e.g. Microsoft office, Apple, Microsoft Windows, etc.
And there are really simple instructions on what you can do directly on your computer to disconnect from a cloud, for
example, to make settings so that less data is transmitted. Software is recommended that slows down transmissions, etc.
There is a video, a video format linked here, for those who want to look it up, but also in text form, so
that all products can be cleared of the big obstacles.
Anyone can start. That is the goal of anti-control.info.
We are concentrating here on computer technology, Windows, Apple and Linux on these operating systems.
Working through such instructions alone is boring, not everyone's cup of tea. Questions still arise, etc.
That's why we have the same concept as Michael Ballweg with the "Freiheitshandy" and his campaigns.
We offer computer security workshops. You can just take the piece of paper to the front and make a note of the
next date: Two weeks from today, Saturday, August 10, in your region, we'll be tackling this topic.
You are allowed to come. You can come with your computers, with your laptops and we offer the opportunity to go through this
setting with you, to answer questions. I am quite sure that everyone has things from this great work that we have done that
they can rearrange, where we can tackle this topic together.
Be sure to get in touch with your AZK contact person and ask where this is taking place. It's already clear in the
Berlin area. It will be on the 24th, which is two weeks later. We would like to give you this. We would like to offer this.
And just like everything we do, this course is completely free of charge for you, it costs nothing. It's a labor of
love from us and you should definitely take advantage of it.
The workshop is like doing this work anywhere else in a workshop, you're quickly out hundreds of euros. But here we want
to take you by the hand as a labor of love and continue working on networking. We look forward to seeing you!
Thank you!
Yes, I would be through, we would be through.
Wow, that was exciting. Yes. I say thank you Michael Ballweg for being with us. Thank you Elias for
the addition. Really exciting what you brought us.
And now we go straight into the landing. Ruth announces the last part. Then I'll say goodbye to you.
Yes, with pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
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