Field Guide to Totalitarian Resistance: Surviving Authoritarianism in the Digital Age
By Fred Gransville
Most search engines are badly compromised, censored, filled with psyops cotton candy when you search for protein.
These search engines (collectively) often work better than GBY (Google Bing Yandex):
Group A: Least-Censored / Privacy-Focused 1. opnxng.com 2. searxng.ru 3. searxng.f24o.zip 4. paulgo.io 5. mojeek.com 6. wiby.me 7. stract.com 8. swisscows.com 9. yandex.com
Group B: Mainstream / Moderately to Highly Censored 10. duckduckgo.com 11. brave.com/search 12. startpage.com 13. ghosterysearch.com 14. qwant.com 15. yep.com 16. seznam.cz 17. mail.ru/search Search with all of the above with one-click.
Better searches than who is playing the Angels (by Boolean groups):
authoritarianism OR totalitarianism OR techno-authoritarianism OR "digital dictatorship" OR "political repression"
"mass surveillance" OR "PRISM program" OR "The Program" OR "NSA surveillance" OR "digital surveillance state" OR "spying program"
oligarch OR oligarchs OR "the 1%" OR plutocracy OR "elite capture" OR "wealth inequality" OR kleptocracy
"George Orwell" OR Solzhenitsyn OR "Anna Politkovskaya" OR Nemtsov OR Navalny OR "Russia without Putin" OR "no war" OR "nonviolent resistance" OR Putler
SORM OR "biometric ID systems" OR "facial recognition cameras" OR "semantic archive" OR "state surveillance technology"
"surveillance role players" OR SRPs OR "psychological resistance" OR "cognitive dissent" OR "resisting authoritarianism" OR "digital resistance"
Group C: Research Portals & Archive Bunkers (Deep Dives / FOIA / Declassified Docs)
Use when you need hard documents, not soft opinions.
20. https://www.documentcloud.org
21. https://www.muckrock.com (FOIA requests)
22. https://govinfo.gov (U.S. federal documents)
23. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu (National Security Archive)
24. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom (CIA’s FOIA vault)
25. https://intelligence.senate.gov (Senate intel reports, rarely searched)
Group D: Browser Armor / Tools for Surveillance Self-Defense
Don’t search naked. Use these to outmaneuver data harvesting.
https://www.torproject.org -Anonymous routing; essential.
https://protonvpn.com -No-logs VPN based in Switzerland.
https://browserleaks.com -Test your browser fingerprint.
https://addons.mozilla.org -Install:
uBlock Origin
Privacy Badger
CanvasBlocker
ClearURLs
https://tails.boum.org -Live OS for escaping dragnet surveillance.
https://grapheneos.org -De-Googled phone OS, open-source.
Boolean Search Packs: Mental Ammunition for the Digitally Besieged
(Expand these packs to guide what you search for. Think: intelligence analyst meets street activist.)
Suppression and Domestic Subversion Tactics
"fusion centers" OR "COINTELPRO 2.0" OR "gangstalking" OR "organized harassment" OR "community policing programs" OR "FBI informants" OR "behavioral threat assessment"
Psychological Weaponry / Narrative Control
"perception management" OR "disinformation campaigns" OR "information operations" OR "counterintelligence narratives" OR "psychological operations" OR "Zersetzung"
Biometric & Algorithmic Control Systems
"predictive policing" OR "algorithmic governance" OR "machine learning surveillance" OR "real-time data fusion" OR "digital twins" OR "social credit system"
Resistance Icons & Martyrs
Aaron Swartz OR Julian Assange OR Edward Snowden OR Chelsea Manning OR Thomas Drake OR William Binney OR Jesselyn Radack
Tools of Liberation and Leak
"SecureDrop" OR "Tails OS" OR "GlobaLeaks" OR "OnionShare" OR "Encrypted Dead Drops" OR "Snowflake Proxy"
Group E: Info-Cleansing Sites That Purge Search Visibility (Avoid These for Resistance Research)
These sites are algorithmically void of anything subversive. Good for buying shampoo, bad for political survival.
https://bing.com
https://yahoo.com
https://aol.com
https://ask.com
https://ecosia.org (ecological but censored)
https://google.com (drowning in SEO clickbait)
Optional: Book & Author Boolean Boosts
Use these when trying to find radical texts or banned literature:
"The Shock Doctrine" OR "Naomi Klein"
"Surveillance Capitalism" OR "Shoshana Zuboff"
"The Jakarta Method" OR "Vincent Bevins"
"Manufacturing Consent" OR "Noam Chomsky"
"The Management of Savagery" OR "Max Blumenthal"
Group F: Decentralized & Uncensorable Search Alternatives
1. YACY (https://yacy.net) – Peer-to-peer search engine (no central authority).
2. Marginalia (https://search.marginalia.nu) – Favors text-heavy, independent sites over commercial SEO junk.
3. Librarian (https://librarian.bz) – Searches shadow libraries for banned/rare books.
4. DARKSEARCH (http://darksearch.io) – Tor-based search engine for .onion sites.
Group G: Hardened Communication Tools
Session (https://getsession.org) – Metadata-resistant messenger.
Briar (https://briarproject.org) – Offline-capable, P2P messaging for protests.
SimpleX (https://simplex.chat) – No user IDs (not even random ones).
Cwtch (https://cwtch.im) – Privacy-first, decentralized chat.
Group H: Counter-Surveillance & OpSec Enhancements
Kill the Corporate Newsfeed → Use Invidious (YouTube frontend), Bibliogram (Instagram alternative), Nitter (Twitter without tracking).
Data Detox → https://privacyduck.com (guides for scrubbing your digital footprint).
Burner Phones & IMEI Cloning → Use prepaid devices with Faraday bags when not in use.
RF Signal Detection → Use a HackRF One or RTL-SDR to detect hidden surveillance devices.
Group I: Document Authentication & Leak Platforms
Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) (https://ddosecrets.com) – WikiLeaks alternative.
The Intercept’s SecureDrop (https://theintercept.com/securedrop) – For whistleblowers.
OnionShare (https://onionshare.org) – Securely send large files via Tor.
Group J: Psychological Resilience & Cognitive Defense
The Gray Rock Method – How to avoid being targeted by authoritarian enforcers.
Stochastic Resistance – Decentralized, unpredictable acts of defiance (e.g., graffiti, memes, leaks).
Information Diet – Avoid doomscrolling; use Stoic practices to maintain mental clarity.
Guerilla Ontology – A tactic from Robert Anton Wilson: Flood the system with absurdity to break narrative control.
Group K: Physical Resistance & Community Defense
The Partisan’s Companion (https://partisan.supply) – Guides on evasion, sabotage, and noncompliance.
Copwatch & Legal Observers – Train in documenting police misconduct.
Mesh Networks – GoTenna or RiseupVPN for offline communication during crackdowns.
Cryptoparty Handbook (https://cryptoparty.in) – Learn encryption in groups.
Parting Shot Boolean for Deep Dives Research:
"deep state" OR "parallel government" OR "continuity of government" OR "the family" OR "the committee" OR "the foundation"
"enforced disappearance" OR "extrajudicial killing" OR "lawfare" OR "lawyer arrests" OR "NGO crackdowns"
"pre-crime algorithms" OR "predictive policing AI" OR "Palantir surveillance" OR "sentiment analysis policing"
1. Assume You Are Always Being Watched – Act accordingly.
2. Never Search Alone – Cross-reference everything via multiple engines/archives.
3. Share Wisely – Use dead drops, encrypted USB drives, or Sneakernet when digital is too risky.
Stay sharp.
-Fred GransvilleField Guide to Totalitarian Resistance: Surviving Authoritarianism in the Digital Age
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