Assault on the Capitol has let loose the electronic octopus

Jewish World Review ^ | January 14, 2020 | Victor David Hanson

[C19fan]

Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. Both tweets passed the censorship rules of Twitter's 20-something judges in San Francisco.

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Today, however, progressive politicians, Wall Street, the media, academia, Hollywood and professional sports are all on the side of the mega-rich tech cartels. Partnering with Big Tech is both politically useful and financially lucrative.

So the values of the 19th-century rail and oil monopolies are back. But now they are married to the 20th-century leftist totalitarianism of George Orwell's "1984." And they are further powered by the 21st-century instant reach of the internet.

[C19fan]

I believe the CEOs and like who run our Oligarch firms must be laughing on how cheap they can buy off the Left. They just have to regurgitate some Woke platitudes, hire some Diversity Political Officers, force their employees into Struggle Sessions, and fire some of the recalcitrant ones to serve as an example to the others. For this they get to do whatever they want with not a single objection from the Left.

[bagster]

Victor David Hansen is rom THEE Fresno State University.

Home of Bagster the Magnificent.

[sit-rep]

they are getting a little too arrogant for their own good... there are quite a few countries now waking up to the tactic. something like this wont last once a few of their own start getting stifled. and as history has shorn, the left has internal battles all the time. ...or maybe i’m just dreaming...

[sit-rep]

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[noiseman]

Other countries don’t have Section 230, and the social media pogrom is starting to scare many of them. Let hope a number of them decide to crack down on these companies proactively, before they get the same treatment that they see being levied on conservative Americans.

[romanesq]

More of a globalist attitude against American Big Tech oligarchs.

They’re perfectly fine with controlling speech. They love it and criminalize speech to control opposition.

We’re next. Dissent is a hate crime.

[sit-rep]

bttt

[Alberta's Child]

For reasons that have nothing to do with Big Tech political partisanship, I have actually been going through a “tech regression” in my business over the last two years. Just some examples:

1. My new office computer system “upgrade” has actually been a DOWNGRADE. I have ditched my cloud-based server and I’m going back to an internal network for my business.

2. The last mobile phone I purchased for my business was a flip phone. Seriously.

3. I made fewer credit card purchases in 2020 than I did in 2019. I’m actually paying for more business expenses with paper checks today than I did two years ago.

One of the biggest problems with technology is that it is totally commoditized, and always has to compete with NOTHING as an alternative way of doing many of its functions.

[AndyJackson]

and always has to compete with NOTHING

Brilliant observation. e.g. Twitter or no twitter. The tyrants forget about horizontal substitution - hanging at the local pub, coffee klatches, etc. And that is probably enough to defeat congresscrawlers like Cheney

[Montana_Sam]

Sound thinking in that.
I don’t have an active personal cell phone; only an old flip phone that I keep charged for 9-1-1 service and the camera.
Ditched Microsoft products long ago for Linux and open-source software solutions.
My wife and I are still paying bills with checks, even tho some companies now charge a fee for paper billing and check payments.

[TChad]

This time around there will be no progressive trustbusters or muckrakers. They are in league with, or bought off by, the new electronic octopus. And its tentacles are strangling the thoughts and speech of an increasingly unfree America.

Yes we have no good news.