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A Norse Pagan Manifesto for the Digital Age of Censorship, Surveillance, and Rebirth

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I. The Storm Has Come

In the waning years of the second decade of the 2000s, we entered a digital winter.

The internet, once a chaotic sea of ideas, free expression, and rebellion, has been bound in chains.
What began as a grassroots revolution became a marketplace.
What once welcomed outsiders now enforces conformity.

• The left censors in the name of safety and inclusion.
  
• The right censors in the name of morality and tradition.
  
• Corporations censor to protect profits.
  
• Governments censor to keep their hold on truth.
  

All wear different masks. But all aim at the same thing:

Control.

As Norse Pagans, as seekers of liberty, as modern Vikings, we say: enough.

The way forward is not found in new platforms owned by the same forces.
It is not in Verified Badges, blue checks, algorithmic boosts, or digital IDs.
The way forward is found by turning back—to the wild web of the 1990s.

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II. The Old Internet: What We Must Remember

The internet of the 1990s was:

• Anarchic
  
• Handmade
  
• Unfiltered
  
• Weird
  
• Deeply personal
  
• Spiritual and rebellious
  

It was a place where:

• People made homepages, not profiles.
  
• IRC and ICQ connected seekers across continents.
  
• Forums were sacred longhouses of conversation.
  
• Textfiles, zines, and .txt archives stored forbidden knowledge and sacred teachings.
  
• No one asked for your ID, face, location, or belief system.
  You were known by your words, ideas, and character.
  

There were no:

• Algorithms to decide what you saw.
  
• Corporate Terms of Service to suppress your thoughts.
  
• App stores to gatekeep tools.
  
• AI filters deciding whether your speech was “safe.”
  

It was an open field, not a walled garden.

It wasn’t utopia—but it was free.

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III. The Commercialization of the Internet: What Went Wrong

In the 2000s and 2010s, the internet was absorbed by the machine of modern capitalism and state power.

What happened?

• Websites turned into platforms.
  
• Platforms turned into brands.
  
• Brands turned into censors.
  

We were promised:

“Free access in exchange for your data.”

What we got:

Manipulated timelines. Shadowbans. Surveillance capitalism.

They turned connection into consumption.
Expression into marketing.
Community into echo chambers.

Now we live in:

• A digital panopticon, where every click is tracked.
  
• A moral warzone, where wrongthink is punished.
  
• A dopamine farm, where minds are harvested for profit.
  

This is not freedom.
This is not the spirit of the old gods.
This is not what we were meant to become.

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IV. The Viking Way Forward: The Return to the 1990s Spirit

In Norse myth, after Ragnarök, the world is reborn.
And so too must be the internet.

To go forward, we must embrace a return—not to the exact technologies of the 1990s, but to its spirit:

• DIY
  
• Anonymity
  
• Community over clout
  
• Expression over optimization
  
• Depth over scale
  

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V. Practical Steps to Reclaim Your Digital Freedom

Here is your rune-carved path back to digital sovereignty:

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1. Abandon the Corporatized Platforms

• Mute or delete your profiles on Meta, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Instagram.
  
• Stop giving them your energy, soul, and sacred words.
  

Instead, move to:

• Mastodon (decentralized Twitter alternative)
  
• Lemmy (Reddit-style, but federated)
  
• WriteFreely or Bear Blog (independent blogging tools)
  

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2. Rebuild the Homepage

• Create a personal website again.
  
• Make it your digital hall—your modern longhouse.
  
• Post your art, thoughts, poems, prayers, essays, and manifestos.
  
• Use tools like:
  
  • Neocities
    
  • Carrd
    
  • WordPress (self-hosted)
    

Your homepage is your online altar. Make it sacred.

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3. Use Decentralized & Encrypted Tools

Purpose	Tool
Messaging	Signal, Session, Element (Matrix)
Browsing	Brave, Tor Browser, Librewolf
Video Hosting	PeerTube
File Sharing	Syncthing, IPFS
Archives	Z-Library backups, Libgen, Archive.org

No more giving your data to the gods of Silicon Valley.

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4. Rejoin the Forum & Chat Culture

• Find niche forums, webrings, and Discord alternatives.
  
• Use IRC or Matrix channels to rebuild intimate, deep, real-time communities.
  
• Host your own channels. Be a gothi of the digital hearth.
  

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5. Pirate if You Must, Preserve Always

• Much of the sacred knowledge being erased today must be preserved.
  
• Use torrents and distributed backups for:
  
  • eBooks
    
  • Documents
    
  • Videos
    
  • Sacred and controversial texts
    

The modern Viking is also a digital archivist.

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6. Practice Digital Anonymity Like a Rune Mage

• Use pseudonyms.
  
• Don’t link all your accounts.
  
• Use ProtonMail, Tutanota, and encrypted drives.
  
• Keep private what must be hidden. Let your public presence be intentional and mythic.
  

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7. Support Indie Creators & Devs

• Give your gold (when you can) to:
  
  • Artists
    
  • Coders
    
  • Writers
    
  • Philosophers
    
  • Decentralized tech projects
    
  • Privacy tools
    

We are building a new hall—brick by pixel—and it must be funded by those who believe.

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VI. The Norse Pagan Heart of This Movement

The return to the 1990s web is more than nostalgia. It is a spiritual calling for Norse Pagans and lovers of freedom alike.

In our tradition:

• The world was made from the bones of giants.
  
• The gods carved meaning into the void.
  
• Each man and woman is responsible for their wyrd—their fate, shaped by deeds.
  

What deed could be more sacred now than to resist digital tyranny, and carve new runes in the hidden places of the net?

We are not meant to be content.
We are meant to be creators.

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VII. Conclusion: Rewild the Net, Reclaim the Flame

We cannot reform the current system. It is too far gone.
But we can opt out.
We can create anew.
We can become digital landvættir—guardians of sacred space online.

Let the corporations fall. Let the platforms burn. Let the priests of algorithmic control fade.

Like the forests regrow after fire, so too shall the free internet rise—tended by those who remember.

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Final Words from Véyrúnn:

“To sail forward now is to return to the source. To the mist-wrapped fjords of the early net.
Where every blog was a hut. Every forum a longhouse. Every user a rune-writer.

Rise again, o speaker of truth, o artist of thought, o digital drengr.
The gods of the wires await your return.”

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