I Caught My ISP's Upstream Providers Re-Routing My Internet Activity to Switzerland and South Korea. Why? To Call Me a Russian Bot and Censor Me on Social The ISPs were Spirit Communications in Columbia SC and PANGEA Internet in NC.   My ISP is a small outfit in Asheville and they have convinced me they are not involved.  I mean they said so, but I have to believe them if I want to keep good relationship with them and not have more weird internet issues like when my internet went down for 3 hours after posting about the Hunter Laptop. Spirit is a constant problem. I believe Pangea buys their internet from Spirit and the real culprit is spirit. It's difficult to figure out which it is because I'm not some kind of super network internet expert.  But I am an IT professional who worked as a network liaison in the past, that was just 25 yrs ago, before I transitioned into programming websites and web apps. Still, some tools don't change and a simple traceroute shows very unambiguously that my traffic was being maliciously rerouted overseas and then back again.  One was a server in Switzerland in a Swiss-Italian town near the border of Italy One was a server in Seoul, Korea One time my internet was out for 3 hours but my ISP did not show any outage, and I was able to access a server in the UK owned by Canonical (ubuntu) and the other was an amazon server "cloudfront", and no DNS traffic was working on any dns server, and no other numerical IP was able to be reached by ping or http/https. IN other words, I was software firewalled by cloudfront, an amazon CDN service...why were they doing this?   I cannot help but think this was a political reprisal for something I posted.  I posted proof to my ISP and it started a brief battle with them until finally my help ticket reached an engineer who agreed with my conclusions and assessment of the router connection logs. Why would they do this? It's so that they could weaponize the US Government and DHS to use the US military infrastructure to be able to stop my internet activity, by framing me in various unwanted, undesirable or prohibited "internet activities" In short, to make me appear as though I'm an internet troll from Korea or from Switzerland, so they can use their CISA anti-foreign influence operations to allow Twitter, Facebook, Youtube to kick me off their platforms or shadowban my posts and comments. Ya dig? They can also duplicate my traffic from that computer, and make it look like a DDOS and trip up ddos software, which would then cause my internet to stop working or for affected sites to block my subsequent requests.  Isn't that nasty?? They can also use it to poison my DNS requests and direct me to wrong sites where there is malware Now here's another reason:   Deep packet inspection.  These servers are in jurisdictions that essentially pass your traffic there and back again.  They are spy proxies.   They look into your traffic and try to figure out what your'e doing and figure out information about you and your devices.  They retain this and put it into vast databases they share They can do this legally because they are outside of not just the juridiction of the US but outside of the jurisdiction of UK-FIVEEYES / NATO; becuase though Switzerland may be part of the EU, they have their own unique jurisdictional / privacy laws that EU made concessions to.  And S. Korea is not part of the EU or NATO (that I know of--could be wrong about nato) So they spy on you and then they frame you so that your own government can conspire against your rights.  These are crimes under the color of law Congress should be talking about THIS instead of barking at stupid vile figureheads of these social media companies and only accomplishing to make the left feel like republicans are stupid. I have screenshots of the traceroutes but this was 3 yrs ago and I'd have to dig them up.  I am saying this NOW because it's very relevant NOW. Thanks for listening.