My name is Peter Mackeonis and I am the publisher of The Street Wall Journal.

My first involvement in Silicon Valley was forty years ago when I licensed software to companies like Atari, Commodore, Olivetti, LG, and Digital Research and I was involved with early symbolic Artificial Intelligence languages like LISP and REDUCE. I worked with and employed some brilliant people and met some extremely unethical, but I never thought that forty years on I would be a target of that very industry I helped pioneer but then I never expected to be its critic.

A Valley Watcher

Fast forwarding a decade or so through licensing software to 1992 when I wrote and published High Tech, Low Morals, a novel that playfully showed a more seedy 'fake it to you make it' side to the Valley. It was the first book on disk and is ironically an exhibit in the San Jose Museum of Technology.

Becoming an Internet developer as soon as the web became available to the public, I spent almost a decade watching other Valley companies come and go. I kept my hand in with Valley ethics and was a guest speaker on the subject of toxic 'spam' email at San Francisco's 2007 Online Marketing World conference.

Becoming A Critic:

I watched as the seriously voracious Facebook, Google, Twitter and other Valley corporations developed into global powerhouses influence the media, the public and politics both at home and abroad.

I became a critic of Section 230 of the 1994 Comminications Act which enabled social media to publish, or not publish, anything that suited their corporate agendas because their reach and influence enabled to make or break people. Add to that the billions of dollars spent on lobbyists and they had become a de facto government.

I Got Ahead of Myself

During 2012, while continuing to be involved in technology, I also let advertising walls to Fortune 500 companies under the name 'The Art Wall Company' and as I was thinking ahead about publishing a blog, I registered the domain TheStreetWallJournal.com.

Becoming An Active Critic:

1n 2019, concerned about how The Valley's technologies were integrated into so many aspects of life, I wrote two further novels to complete a Silicon Valley Trilogy that portrayed the industry as unethical and far too powerful. The books, ANNA'S GAME and A CALIFORNIA COUP chronicled how social media manipulated the American people sufficiently as to select the next president of the USA. Self published on Amazon in early 2020, Amazon failed to index either book after the 2020 election.

Google AI subsequently labeled the book series 'cynical' and 'polemic.'

Becoming A Blogger:

In 2020, under the name of my blog, 'The Street Wall Journal,' I started posting comments on Facebook (Meta) and Linkedin (Microsoft) as well as on my live blog at TheStreetWallJournal.com.

Early postings had no real focus and covered art, antiques, politics, my London walls, and anything else that came to mind. But as time went by my comments veered into technology. I asked “Why did we live in the land of beta test products – especially Apple and Microsoft with their incessantly disruptive updates. Why were consumers were getting the rough end of a deal where quality and reliability was obviously being sacrificed for profit?”

The AI Revolution

When AI was just a glint in venture capitalist's eyes I predicted that not only would The Valley grab it with both hands but that it was as, if not more so, dangerous than the H-Bomb. As AI was rolled out against the wishes of most users my posts focused on the the company that had ninety percent market share of the search engine business: Google.

Being such a hot topic I was surprised that so few people commented on my pieces that suggested that the 'Don't Be Evil” company was a genuine threat and not only because of its massive data collection capabilities, but because I had found and had published incidences of its search engine AI output being thoroughly unreliable and misleading.

There was still little to no reaction to my posts.

Naively, I had not counted on The Valley's most important asset: algorithms.

Was I was being sent to the back of the bus because of my 'attitude/'

Then I found proof of worse.

In September 2026, on a whim, I asked Google's all-knowing AI 'is TheStreetWallJournal.com a safe site? The answer came back a decided NO, it was not. My screen filled with separate and unconnected companies criminally slamming my work: CNET, Wikipedia and TrustPilot, declared that my site was 'unsafe,' 'dangerous,' 'not a genuine site,' 'cybersquatting', 'passing off,' “did not exist,” and “did not have a valid security certificate.” All the statements were lies

Keywords and the damage done:

I had not only been algorithmically suppressed, I was being actively attacked by a system that I had criticized.

When I further queried why I had been labeled this way, the system apologized for the lack of credibility warning and, claiming the system had hallucinated, acknowledged that it was aware of my blog criticisms and that certain 'key' words had ignited a firestorm of a comeback.

Incredibly, Google AI had declared their hand and I had screen images and meta data to prove it.

Conclusion:

We have reached the point where AI is capable of not only protecting itself and it's 'mother ship,' The Valley, against criticism but of falsifying the origins of any such attacks.

So, for the sake of freedom, and the destruction of Section 230 protection, I plan to lawyer up!

(c)copyright 2026 Peter Mackeonis All Rights Reserved