Is China Now In Control of Our Flow of Information?

American Thinker ^ | 23 Oct, 2020 | Shari Goodman

[MtnClimber]

Pretty amazing how much China's name turns up whenever there is some kind of Big Tech censorship.

China's desire for global dominance is no secret. Since its entrance into the World Trade Organization in 1991 at the urging of Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, Americans have been aware of China's economic and military rise to power. The election of President Trump and his Make America Great Again campaign slowed the inroads they were making and highlighted our Congress' inability or unwillingness to protect American interests for the last few decades.

As reported by a former Facebook insider to the New York Post, there are at least a half a dozen Chinese nationals working to censor content. We had hoped that by engaging the Chinese they would be motivated to incorporate our principles of freedom and liberty, but instead it appears our society is becoming more restrictive.

Big Tech, no stranger to censorship, is guilty of silencing conservative voices on their platforms. For years, conservatives have been locked out with trumped up charges of not following "community standards" with no clear definition of what standards were being violated. It has become increasingly clear that conservatives were targeted for their content.

[MtnClimber]

There are now some options for social media. Conservatives need to make them successful.

[Sirius Lee]

Ten years ago, the interwebs were a bastion of freedom. They have been turned into a mechanism of control over the population, and the big techs are using the china model.

I'm surprised that FR is still allowed to exist. The lights are going out everywhere.

[AndyJackson]

Since they have decided to become an asset for Chinese intelligence, seize them and put them under the control of Cybercommand.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[HarleyD]

HA! This is just what I told my wife this morning. If the debate and Joe Biden corruption shows anything, it is that China has now infiltrated our politicians, big business, and media. All it takes is just some well placed people at the top to control the narrative.

[Candor7]

If you ask Google and FAcebook, the answer is “Yes, red china is in control of our flow of information and are now beginning to control content.”

Anti-trust cases against both are required.

Red Chinese operatives at Google and Facebook need to be arrested and jailed for breaking federal security law.

[SMARTY]

Is that a rhetorical question?

[polymuser]

China, and Indian coders, too.

[nagant]

Until a few days ago I frequently posted on a different political forum. It was obvious that the site owner steered the direction and tone of discussions toward the left, but still allowed some free expression of ideas. As with most such discussions the mere presentation of the right side of things swung the argument 180 degrees. Then came news that the site’s parent company had “reorganized”. When I questioned whether it was really a payoff for services received the site owner summarily banned me.

This takeover in web-wide. Thank goodness for Free Republic.