As many my know I use hashtag #RustyIrony for a lotta observations. This time for the biggest social media giants… Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Yahoo etc. All these are the direct result of unfettered ideas and the “wild west” free market known as the internet. Unbridled capitalism as it most laissez-faire… and they have become billionaire$ at very young age. Many of these most successful free market capitalists are liberals politically #GoFigure. So now after the triumph of their mega-capitalism, they now seem to seek to herd us into the anti-capitalist single mind of “progressive” thinking.
Often the “offense” is “hate speech”. The whole concept of “hate speech” is to censor, and any opposition (mostly to the Left) is quickly labeled such. #RustyIrony… it appears only one side of the political spectrum is really being censored. I spose it’s basic human nature to want to control all one can, and if you have billion$ you control a LOT! So after using the biggest most uncensored free market platform in history... if someone says or writes something these mega-capitalists don’t like, they go all authoritarian on us. As these are now private international corporations… they have the right to censor… but it seems a bit “we got ours through the free market, but now it says things we don’t like… so you we’re going to unfree your market.” #Hypocrite. Is President Trump next to be silenced?
Nice remarks.
Masking the truth, promoting fake news, controlling what we and don’t see on the web are all subtle violations of Freedom of Speech.
And without Free Speech and communication, how do ever expect to rule and maintain a Republic fairly and intelligently.
And why should a Google or Facebook or Microsoft be allowed to scan my personal emails? There is a fundamental right to privacy being violated.
Rightly there needs to be permissions granted to access my personal data and correspondence.
I’m hoping the Trump administration gets around to these issues perhaps in the second terms. For now, there are plenty of other things that are more important to fight, but sooner or later we need to get back our freedom of private and non-commercialized association with other people.