Posted on 05/09/2019 12:35:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In this week of second-birthday celebrations for The Mark Steyn Club, the thing most worth celebrating is mere existence: We haven't yet been vaporized. Every day the Big Shut-Up advances: Last week Facebook eighty-sixed Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and for good measure Twitter suspended the Hollywood contrarian James Woods. It's a bit unfair on poor old calypso conspiracist Louis Farrakhan, who found himself de-platformed with all the right-wing haters just because Speech Commissar Zuckerberg needed a bipartisan figleaf. He won't require that much longer, and indeed Big Social is growing ever more brazen in its preference for monitored speech over free speech. (See, for example, Google's thuggish and moronic censorship of the Claremont Institute.)
As readers may have noticed, I don't do Facebook posts or Tweet: We have social media accounts but we use them only to link to content here or to promote radio, TV and stage appearances. To be honest, I don't really understand why so-called "conservatives" write (for free) on Facebook and Twitter, providing the Big Social cartel with more free content and thus enriching them and cementing their near total control of the Internet. Nor do I understand why Dennis Prager, for whom I have almost boundless admiration, sued YouTube for giving his Prager University videos insufficient prominence. Conservatives demand that YouTube cease "de-monetizing" their videos. For what it's worth, the first time I was de-monetized on YouTube, I self-de-monetized all my other videos on the platform. Because whatever percentage of ad revenue you might get from them, YouTube takes more - much more. So you're getting pennies while they're getting even more stonkingly mega-rich: Conservatives who think more YouTube revenue is the way to close the gap don't seem to grasp that they're actually widening it.
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We need an executive order immediately closing all US Government Facebook and Twitter pages. The US government should not be patronizing companies that are actively interfering in the political process by suppressing opinions they don’t like.
Young every single u.s. government Facebook and Twitter page. Delegitimize them president Trump!
End every single US Government executive branch Facebook and Twitter page. The US government having Facebook pages for publicity, would be the same as US Government advertisements being placed in the daily Stormer, or some KKK newspaper.
It’s on American for the government to patronize those businesses that are attacking the Constitution
Un-american
Check your 2.
Leftists-"progressives"-"liberals"-Democrats (whatever the nom de propagande du jour) do not want a culture of honest inquiry.
Honest inquiry could likely lead to TRUTH, and nothing is more anathema to them!
Now we know!
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