for some of us, it's time. i'm ready to take it all down. are you?

I've been online for years. Blogging, writing, photographing, painting, sharing ideas, documenting history, building communities and giving away more creative work than I could ever count.

I did it because I believed in sharing.

But sharing is not the same as giving corporations permission to take our work, harvest our content and turn our creativity into somebody else's profit.

I'm tired of it.

I'm tired of watching independent creators get pushed aside while enormous technology companies treat the internet like their personal warehouse.

I'm tired of the excuses. I'm tired of the endless changes to terms and conditions. I'm tired of being told that this is simply the future and we should all get used to it.

Well, maybe it's time we stopped cooperating.

I'm talking about taking down our blogs, making our archives private, closing our public pages, leaving Instagram and Facebook, cancelling our participation and withdrawing the content that keeps these platforms alive.

Not for a few hours. Not just for a day.

For some of us, it's time to walk away for good.

Imagine thousands of independent bloggers, artists, photographers, writers, musicians and small publishers making the same decision.

What happens when the people who create the content stop supplying it?

What happens when the people who built the audience take that audience somewhere else?

What happens when we stop giving away our work?

I'm ready to consider taking it all down.

Are you?

This is bigger than Meta. It's about ownership, consent, copyright, creative freedom and the future of the open internet.

We need to start talking seriously about coordinated digital blackouts, rolling website closures and a mass withdrawal of content.

Our work is not theirs simply because we put it online.

The internet was built by people. Perhaps it's time the people took it back.

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