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The Firewall Test

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Scott Hughes
Nov 28, 2025
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The system doesn’t announce when it begins scoring belief or community loyalty.

It probes. Quietly. Repeatedly. Methodically.

If you know the markers, you can see the shift months before it becomes policy.

These are the five probes that tell you the infrastructure has begun treating conviction as a variable it needs to classify.

Each one is simple to spot — if you’re watching.

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