The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and opinion. But we don’t have freedom of speech or opinion.
The Constitution forbids the government from blocking our rights. But we don’t have any more rights.
Just as the government is not allowed to create databases on the public, it allows the “credit bureaus” to create these databases, and then the government freely accesses these databases.
Since the government is not allowed to block our speech rights, it happily delegates this task to private businesses, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. The government is denying our rights by proxy, since it is very happy to allow this to happen while pretending not to notice.
Read Robert Spencer’s book on Freedom of Speech. Everything he predicted is coming true.
It’s lost. Freedom to think as one wishes is lost.
Good post.