YES: With A DVD Player And Paperbacks, Anybody Can Beat Big Tech Censors.

Our lives have been entirely saturated by entities wishing to regulate our thoughts and lifestyles. They use complex algorithms on the devices they sell to us to harvest our data and control what information we see, hear, and access and then turn around to sell us more crap with the intention of further regulating and monitoring our behavior. The more dependent we grow on tech companies, and we grow more dependent with each passing day, the more power they have over us.

But there is one crucial way you can fight back. Buy and use physical media.

Something like a physical family Bible, instead of a digital version that your family can pass around on a tablet, can’t be further altered and has the added benefit of being imbued with generational sentimentality. Similarly, a physical photo album, albeit bulkier, isn’t stored in the cloud and can’t have its content scoured over by high-tech sensors as easily as an iPhone’s camera reel can.

When it comes to entertainment, a pre-existing DVD version of “Fight Club” wouldn’t include a fabricated ending created by the Chinese government, “The Simspons” season three box set wouldn’t have memory-holed Michael Jackon’s guest appearance, and pre-21st-century printings of Mark Twain’s books will maintain the integrity of the author’s satire while digital versions censor it to account for modern sensibilities.

I’ve been doing this for years.