The night of August 12th 2024, I think the world caught up to Science Fiction: The Musk/TRUMP interview. It was set to start at 8:00 PM ET on the X platform. I logged in and made a bee line to Elon’s feed and tried to join the space, but in doing so the platform froze…

As a career IT professional, with an expertise in enterprise monitoring–– having the ability to know what are inside the data packets and where they came from, I suspected a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack by the machines of opposition, bent on bringing down this particular X space for fear of an awakening. Very Orwellian. It was later determined that a DDoS attack was at play here.

The DDoS was doing its job and seeing I was not able to join this space I jumped over to YouTube and searched for “Musk-TRUMP interview” and found a live feed I could lamprey onto it. They too were having issues but the narrators were keeping the 251K of us lampreys on their feed up to date. They were hearing Trump’s mic but it was faint and cutting in and out. I kept this tab opened and jumped back to X and searched for TRUMP’s feed. BINGO! I was in. The DDoS attack was focusing on Elon. But by then, the team at X had isolated the DDoS sources and held off the attack.

This played out like the famous EVE online Massacre of M2-FXE. Kudos to the guru’s of X.

I kept jumping back and forth between platforms and found, like myself, thousands were lampreying off other live feeds wherever they could and these numbers were well in to the seven digits. So there were a lot of unaccounted sessions for the live stream and then take into account the recorded event listened to afterwards, shared and viewed. The totals, that the opposition doesn’t want you to know, will be into the hundreds of millions.

There is no going back from here for the line in the sand has been crossed, where wars of the future will be fought online and you will be notified as to when and what termination station you are assigned.

Of all the events I have witnessed over the years, I feel this event was up there with the moon landing, played out in cyberspace with a message that was clear– The future is exciting for those brave enough to see it. I’m sure this event rocked the Ministry Of Truth and you can already see the expected NewsSpeak not carrying this link while counter-playing the effect it had. They will focus on the X platform having glitches, a rambling conversation, their fact checking, but not on the overall message to the world and how many tuned into it. Long live the Winston Smiths!

P.S. When I used WordPress’s AI Assistant to provide feedback of my post (which is fantastic by the way) I was warned about the legalities and sensitive information Big Brother is everywhere.