Posted on 08/11/2021 10:25:48 AM PDT by RandFan
@ggreenwald
What has happened is what some tried to warn would happen but it's worse than most of us realized:
When people like Alex Jones and Milo started getting de-personed from the internet, most cheered. In 4 short years, we're now at the point where almost no dissent is allowed.
Just look at the number of liberals cheering and justifying YouTube's suspension of Rand Paul for his comments on masks -- ones echoed by Biden's own former COVID adviser -- and you'll see why this faction is completely authoritarian.
They crave corporate speech policing.
There was always an authoritarian strain in US liberalism. But it become the dominant strain -- the defining strain -- when they got convinced during the Trump years that they were on the front lines fighting a fascist takeover, and now believe their adversaries are criminals.
There's one key point overlooked in discussions of Big Tech censorship.
Even if you want to reject the view adopted by the House Antitrust Committee that these are monopolies, their censorship is *not* purely "private company" decisions. They're coerced by Dems to censor.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
When you control mass communications of public speech, you cannot help but attract covert interest from the government which will be eager to use "private" control as a platform for government censorship.
Yeah I know it’s a moderated forum but better than anything else in my opinion.
Can’t stand Facebook and most of the others.
I do like twitter though have friends/colleagues there and like the platform.
But none of these tech companies do. They each have a slice of a very big pie and only control that slice.
Don’t forget Twatter suspended a sitting US President. They should be dissolved on that one alone.
I know boomer but it’s so damn addictive and useful..
Just dont get into politics. Swarms of liberals descend on you.
I talk politics HERE only :D
Funny old world....
Yep, Vox Day has been disappeared, probably over his recent string of anti-vax articles, but is still visible on Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20210808185947/http://voxday.blogspot.com/?m=1
Love it Grace. I have saved a copy if you dont mind!
They banned a sitting President of the United States.
So why is anyone surprise?
Nat Hentoff was the last honest leftist prior to these two.
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