Posted on 01/11/2021 5:20:24 AM PST by shortstop
Silicon Valley did it because it knew it could get away with it.
As Twitter and Facebook, and Google and Apple, moved hard to limit conservative messages on social media, they felt comfortable taking their oppressive and monopolistic actions because they knew no one would hold them accountable.
With the United States Senate falling under Democratic Party control, they knew there would be no congressional committee calling them to account, and they knew the incoming presidential administration would leave them alone.
Why?
Because they calculated that the Democrats would put partisan advantage above principle.
Big Tech understood that the Democrats would overlook the draconian silencing of political speech for almost half of Americans because the silencing would be targeted at those who oppose the Democrats and their progressive agenda.
Given the choice between defending the American cultural value of free speech and dissent, or denying their opponents the opportunity to voice disagreement, Big Tech knew that the Democrats would choose their own self-interest.
Further, they knew that publicly demonstrating their allegiance to the progressive cause would probably buy them protection against a Democratic Party that, at least at Bernie Sanders rallies, seems to dislike massive corporations – such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Apple.
In order to curry favor with the new Washington bosses, Big Tech decided to be first in line to kick the opposition in the head.
The social media and Internet platform companies also knew that their actions would be neither scrutinized nor criticized by the American news media. That’s because the media depends on these companies for access to audience, and because the media, the PR arm of the progressive movement, hates conservatives as much as the Democrats, the political arm of the progressive movement.
And they knew that there would be little pushback because the first person erased from the public sphere would be Donald Trump. A pariah even among some members of his own party, Donald Trump, in the days after the assault on the U.S. Capitol, is loathed by many. Making him disappear would be – and turned out to be – publicly applauded.
But what Trump was was a precedent.
He was the establishing of the corporate power and prerogative to target a person because of politics and remove them from the public square, to delete them from the social media environment which is the Main Street of contemporary America.
Like something out of Orwell, the Soviet Union or China, Trump was disappeared.
And so were a growing number of others, all political conservatives.
And online access was denied to Parler, a company in the marketplace that offered not just another platform for speech, but also a competitive challenge to Twitter.
But it, like Trump, was shut down.
And America is silent.
The organs of the progressive establishment – religion, education, media, entertainment, the bureaucracy – haven’t said a word. The grand crusaders for “civil rights” have decided to take a pass on this one. When they’ve said anything at all, it has been in celebration. The socialists have said this is no concern of government, it is the marketplace, and corporations being good corporate comrades.
But they are wrong.
This the dumbing down of liberty by companies that routinely screw Chinese citizens in order to placate and facilitate their communist masters. This is the extinguishing of free speech in a society which has forgotten how to use the non-digital voices of earlier days. This is the empowering of corporate masters in corrupt partnership with craven politicians.
This is the philosophical genocide of opinions contrary to progressive orthodoxy. This is the digital destruction of people and ideas hated and ridiculed by every Democrat from Joe Biden to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
This is the death knell that ought to alarm every American.
Because today it’s Donald Trump, but tomorrow it’s you.
Today it is conservatives, people whose views have been declared dangerous. But tomorrow it will be others. Others who obstruct or disagree with the assertive power of the progressive-corporate confederacy.
Orwell said that totalitarians curtail speech because they want to curtail thought. If you cannot express dissent, eventually you can’t formulate dissent. Sheep don’t speak, and neither do the pawns of oppressors.
And speech isn’t free if that freedom doesn’t protect speech that offends or disagrees. Pretty words need no protection. America’s legal and cultural commitment to free speech has always been most relevant and most earnestly protected on the fringes.
You don’t have to like Trump. But you do need to love freedom.
Big Tech and its progressive partners hope America will sacrifice the latter to penalize the former.
And the sad thing is, it might be right. It’s certain the machinery of the Democratic Party and the progressive movement has its back.
This isn’t about Trump. This about you.
Our invisible masters have decided that he will be silenced.
And soon they might decide the same thing about you.
I believe there is a meme to that effect.
It is only starting.
Revelations prophecies tell us that America will become the Second Beast of Revelations. This could be that time.
They did it. They pulled it off. One hundred and seven years after the 17th Amendment they finally busted our republic. Make no mistake, America is a one-party state ruled by ruthless Leftists who will never relinquish power.
This doesn’t mean the end of the GOP. On the contrary, since we remain on paper a republic, the democrats will need future straw opposition just as Hillary and Biden needed Crazy Bernie for the 2016 and 2020 democrat primaries.
The difference is that instead of paying off Bernie with another dacha, serious opposition to democrat oppression deserves only reprisals, censorship, proscriptions, denial of employment, revenge, early morning raids and show trials, especially for the 2020 winner, President Trump, his family and close supporters.
The Left cannot sleep easy while Donald Trump lives. They know We the People played by the rules. We turned out and overwhelming gave President Trump another term. Every demographic sent more votes his way than in 2016. But, since not enough honest men and women counted the votes or called out the built-in “anomalies” in Dominion Voting software, the Poseur Biden will be immaculated next week.
Welcome to the new Dark Age.
Pretend everything is really going to be ok. That’s right, close your eyes and just accept serfdom. What choice do you have?
“It’s about you”
Ya. That’s why we re-elected Trump.
That’s all.
I think the 19th had more to do with it than the 17th.
Then follow the instructions. Deletion is really "deactivation" which puts you on the list to be deleted.
I have a new spring in my step now that I am no longer a Twitterer.
Use Gab.https://gab.com/home
I’ve posted this several times in one from or another:
I’ve never had TWIT-er, lie-book,account or any of that crap. Obviously I can’t delete my listings since I’ve never been there.
Is there anything else somebody like me can do to cost these scum dogs money? Actually I don’t even know how they make money since most of the crap appears to be free.
And just like that, democrats turned into communists. And they like it.
Yes, all social media will be hacked and your info turned over to the FBI
Sounds serious
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErbHIsPXIAULtwp?format=jpg&name=medium
“Left extremists have captured and archived over 70TB from Parler servers, this includes posts, personal information, locations, videos, images etc...”
https://mobile.twitter.com/donk_enby
“LE can just subpoena AWS once people start digging through this stuff. remember: those people were dumb enough to give Parler photos of their IDs”
Why have two popularly elected houses of congress?
People Need to Read THE PIG BOOK, WASTE, FRAUD, SLUSH FUND FOR THEIR WEALTH.
Citizens Against Government Waste Releases 2019 Congressional Pig Book
Republicans should have done away with 230 rule when the Dems were clamoring about Facebook and Trump’s election influence and they were screaming tech companies were a monopoly, etc. Instead, Repubs did nothing. Again, another chance to something critical when they had the Dems on board.
There was a meager attempt with McConnell in the latest COVID bill where he inserted it knowing full well that it wouldn’t pass.
IF you have an Amazon Prime account you can cancel that. My wife canceled her yesterday. I never had one.
I personally will NOT buy from Amazon. I have not bought anything from them in years. I formally bought actual books off their sight. I even had an Amazon Kindle. I threw that in the trash over the weekend.
I have a Google Pixel 3 phone. I will not buy another. I have been trying to convince my wife to cancel our Comcast cable TV account. We live out in the country. There is a hill that blocks most TV signals. My internet connection is terrible at my house without a WIFI booster.
My wife has an old Apple IPAD. She has not used it in years since she got a new HP desktop. I think the IPAD will go to the dump(after I take out the hard drive, drill holes in it and smash it with a sledgehammer). We have no other Apple products in our home.
I used Twitter quite a bit for probably 3 years. I was selective of who/what I read. I deactivated my account yesterday morning. And I won’t look back.
Parler IS down.
Actually I see this as short-lived. These tech maniacs need to enjoy it while it lasts because as far as I can tell Trump has signed the Insurrection Act and is positioning military even as we speak. We are all watching an insurrection right now. Its the President’s sworn duty to put it down. If he doesn’t then its on him.
“IF you have an Amazon Prime account you can cancel that. My wife canceled her yesterday. I never had one.”
Had a run in with Amazon several years ago. Have not bought anything since. Never had Prime.
“I have a Google Pixel 3 phone. I will not buy another. I have been trying to convince my wife to cancel our Comcast cable TV account.”
I know our phones are not Apple, don’t really know what they are,
“My wife has an old Apple IPAD. She has not used it in years since she got a new HP desktop.”
My wife has some kind of PAD, don’t think it’s been on in a long time.
Thanks to the corrupting 17A, the situation will not change without a state called Article V Convention.
After almost fifty years as a registered Republican, I am through with the lying, double-dealing, backstabbing never-Trump bastards.
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