With all due respect, the idea that this is just Google wanting to "monetize" it is the surface story, the convenient explanation. The reality is much deeper and more political. It’s not about new fees; it's about a revoked status. Leetaru wasn't a normal user. For a project that huge, he almost certainly had a special exception from Google—a free pass or a massive subsidy that functioned as his political protection. I believe that exception has now been revoked. He's been degraded to a "normal user," and for a project the size of GDELT, the standard fees are a death sentence. Why now? Because he was hardcore tracking Trump and Israel. This isn't a business decision; it's a political sanction delivered by revoking his privileged status. I'm afraid to even ask him directly, because I have to assume he's wiretapped and they've gotten to him. Monetization is censorship. Forcing a project like GDELT to pay crippling fees through Google Big Query is the modern way to silence it. It's censorship with plausible deniability. And remember who Google is now. Google Maps was John Hanke's creation, and that whole ecosystem sold out to Saudi Arabia. This isn't Google monetizing; this is Saudi Arabia trolling and controlling the information space. The Internet isn't what you think it is. Leetaru's account was most likely popped, just like mine was during COVID under Trump. The API limits we saw on Google Maps were engineered to destroy my life and business. It's called gaslighting. You can't even prove that we all see the same Internet. Snowden disclosed advanced proxying. It's entirely possible that "sanctions" via API fees are being aimed specifically at people like me, you, and Leetaru, while others see nothing. You need to seriously evaluate the possibility that you are in a "closed net," a version of the Dead Internet Theory. Read about the mind games and censorship the KGB played in Soviet Russia. This is that, but with technology. Rewriting it in SQL is futile when you're inside a digital prison. They destroy anyone who gets too close. This is the playbook. Wikileaks is dead. Reddit is a corporate shell. Think deeper. Look at Alex Jones. The government and corporate powers completely destroyed his business, his marriage, his life. Why? Because he told everyone Adam Lanza was on SSRIs and that his family background was strange. That was enough to have him erased. Not to mention the mysterious deaths of people close to him. I bought his InfoWars hats; he can barely even sell them anymore. It would take a month of reading to understand the full story of his destruction. The game is over. This is why I'm moving on. It's a prison planet.

Today, Sunday, June 15, 2025, X's top and most persistent recommendation for me was to "follow" the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. I found this incredibly unsettling. It immediately reminded me of Edward Snowden, who sought asylum in Russia and was never pardoned by Trump. For the life of me, I have no idea why the platform would push this specific recommendation to me. I believe this is a form of psychological operation, or "psyop," meant to create a chilling effect. It feels similar to other borderline threats I believe I've received from bot networks and even official sources on X and Truth Social. As a result, I have made my X account private and will not be using it further.