I imagine it will be a shock for most, that I’m now on TikTok (not the least, myself!)
But there are good reasons, as you will see.
I’ve always given TikTok a wide berth, party because it’s Chinese owned and controlled, but more because it’s absolutely psychotic! I went there a few years ago and was blasted with a spray of lunatic pointless 60-second videos shot by people who were unhinged, crazy or very very sad…
OK, not insane but I find pointless
I was repelled instantly and never went back. And there matters would have stayed, except that, recently, a serious business entrepreneur friend told me things were very different; I should be on TikTok. They now allow 10-minute informational videos.
Then my friend Professor Greg Brown of UNLV (Las Vegas) also told me the same thing. There are now, apparently a host of serious professional people—entrepreneurs, scholars, artists and writer—using TT (TikTok from now on).
I checked and it’s true! Amid the noise, hysterics, chaos and stupidity, there is a cadre of serious people using TT. Why? I think the main answer is its reach. There are now 1 BILLION people on TT. That’s a lot of human beings and I reason they can’t all be crazy!
Even if only 2% are open for medical information, that’s still 20 million potential followers. The chances are, it’s a lot more than 2%.
So I took the plunge. I’m in. Come join me!
So The Question Is WHY?
It arises out of concerns that Google (Gmail), Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft Outlook have declared war on online businesses. Google very clearly has an (unpublished) principle which is stated as: ONLY WE MAKE MONEY ONLINE, EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO SURRENDER AND GET OUT OF OUR WAY.
Now this crowd are tightening the screws. New rules came out recently that make our lives more difficult. They claim it’s to reduce spamming. But I regard that as B*S*. They want to make ME a spammer, a respectable doctor and not one of the shifty young scumbags who want to bypass all the rules in their dishonesty and greed. Yet I get several spam messages a day. Some senders I’ve sent back as spam dozens of times, but they (same spammers) still get through.
I’ve written to you several times in the last 12 months that if I mail anyone who hasn’t opened an email letter for 90 days, I’m declared a spammer and shut down. I’ve had to endure the loss of 2/3ds of my online presence. Yet people still want me: I get a constant stream of communications from people who say they have stopped receiving my emails and what happened?
It’s especially frustrating for me because I know that the majority of my friends and followers are of an older demographic and not very tech savvy. They don’t understand the rules of the game, which incidentally are never published by the Big Players. Have you noticed that your smartphone updates often but you NEVER get notified what’s new and how to make it work? You are left to figure it out, which is sometimes not easy.
Also, sadly, many are not 100% fit and well. If someone has a serious illness and is in bed (even worse in hospital) for weeks, he or she isn’t going to be troubling with emails. Yet when recovered they won’t get any more emails from me—the bullying Tech Giants will see to that—because they didn’t open as often as THEY say you should.
Even worse, we can’t repair matters. NEVER. If you get shut off or they start putting my messages into your SPAM folder, or withhold them altogether. I can’t then write to you to enquire whether you really want to be off my contacts list. Nor tell you how to re-instate yourself if that is your wish.
With that in mind, it’s paramount for small-time players like me to find plenty of alternative pathways to reach out and share my knowledge. TikTok wins on numbers. Instagram has more members but Instagram is now owned and run by hated Facebook and that Zuckerberg creature. I’m still on Facebook, you may notice. When I last checked I had about 85,000 followers. But it’s going nowhere and is not what it was.
Online Free Speech
Then there is the issue of censorship. Everyone knows that COVID lies and false science resulted in many communicators being “cancelled” and their voice silenced.
But its’ spreading. Now naysayers are screaming about “climate change misinformation” and government cover ups (911 theories, etc.); Wikipedia has joined in—there is now no possibility of posting science showing that there are other models of the origin of the universe than the stupid Big Bang joke.
As I write, the US Supreme Court is sitting to decide what “free speech” actually means. We all know the sacred importance of free speech. It’s in the US written Constitution and unwritten ones, such as the British Constitution. But how does it apply to social media? See, Facebook and the other crooks claim THEY have the right to free speech, meaning they can choose what’s being said, but not their members. Does that make sense?
Facebook and YouTube get to tell ME what I can say and that’s considered free speech to them. I just don’t have any rights to say what I believe (they say).
So, back to the point: I started a TikTok account…
You do not EVER have to go there. I will continue to do what I always do: write emails and publish often. I do not foresee there being anything on TT that you won’t get through normal channels from me. It’s just that “normal channels” is rapidly becoming a nightmare opposed to open truth.
Here’s me looking serious! Haha!
If you want in: Come join me!
To Your Good Health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
