The goal of the left was to eliminate that pesky thing called “rights” as guaranteed by the Constitution. They knew they couldn’t just go ahead and do it. They’ve been working on eliminating it through the lie of “hate speech,” and have almost succeeded.
But the pace was not fast enough. They wanted it dead now. Then came the stupendous opportunity! Covid. Scare the life out of the people, and they would be able to do whatever they wanted to them. And so it was. They have used covid as the excuse to bring free speech to an end on the social media. They are planning to move to private text messages next.
Do not doubt for one minute that they have the capability to read them now. It’s just not very convenient. This proposal would give explicit permission to the service providers to read the juicy contents of text messages. (In other words, I believe they’re already doing it.) The excuse would be the vax, covid, masks, etc.
Any awake reader of FR knows it would not stop there. They would read the messages for information about any planned gathering (excuse: Jan 6.) by Republicans. (Don’t kid yourself. They’re already doing it.) They would search for information they would be able to use against Republicans. They would deliberately and intentionally ignore any planned bombing by the beard and burka crowd, or the blm/antifa thugs.
Cuba is trying to “kill switch” the internet on the island to stifle the protests their.
Barack Obama already asked for a kill switch on the internet in the USA back in 2010.
And we have all seen “day long” outages at Facebook and twitter in the past and it didn’t affect the stock value in the long term.