It’s Not Censorship, It’s a Coordinated Effort

The Epoch Times ^ | Lee Smith

[RoosterRedux]

Critics of the sweeping actions argue, rightly, that censorship violates not only First Amendment freedoms but also the spirit of the law protecting internet service providers from liability.

But this isn’t censorship. Rather, it’s part of the strategic logic of mass conflict. The leadership of the political, corporate, and cultural establishment that today rules America shut down the communications of those against whom they are waging war.

*snip*

Jan. 6 was indeed a big deal, but not for the reasons the regime gives publicly. From its perspective, what Hawley did was much more dangerous when he officially questioned the integrity of the 2020 vote, i.e., the regime’s legitimacy.

In fact, the communication lockdowns began long before the election. Most famously, social media blocked allegations of Biden family corruption and financial ties to Chinese Communist Party proxies. Given Big Tech’s relationship with the CCP, concerns that a foreign power played a role in the decisions made by tech executives to silence Trump, Beijing’s most outspoken and still most powerful critic, can hardly be dismissed. In any case, the corruption of the American regime is now a matter of record, and that’s why its vanguard moved so quickly after the events of Jan. 6.

*snip*

Jan. 6 was more than four years in the making, starting with the “Russiagate” operation that the spy services and prestige press organizations ran against Trump. The regime’s assault on the republic was serial and continuous: the fraudulent special counsel investigation tasked to unseat Trump; the bogus impeachment of the president designed to cover for yet more alleged Biden family corruption in yet another foreign country; the weaponization of the coronavirus lockdowns to destroy small businesses while enriching tech giants such as Amazon;

[Chad C. Mulligan]

There’s a war on for your mind......

[Steve_Seattle]

Another conservative site - American Thinker - has been forced to shut down its comments section under threat of losing its ability to accept advertisements. The same thing happened to The Federalist last year, and now Breitbart - fearing the same thing - holds every single comment up for review.

My personal experience tells me that I am less likely to visit a site if I cannot comment, and when a site has less traffic, its advertising revenues go down. So this is just an effort to slowly squeeze conservative sites dry.

Commenting on a site connects you to it, and to like-mined people, in a way that simply reading a story does not. This is an effort to further silence and isolate conservatives, which will only lead to an increase of tensions, not a lessening of them.

[Jim W N]

It’s Not Censorship, It’s a Coordinated Effort...

...and censorship...

And OBTW, free enterprise "Big Tech" and "Social Media" have every right to speak or censor speech however they want. Government has no say.

It is the GOVERNMENT that is constitutionally forbidden to abridge freedom of speech. Twitter and FB can't arrest you for what you say, but government sure can. And they'll throw away the key.

Don't get confused about letting government unconstitutionally regulate the free speech of individuals or free enterprise. That is the quick road to tyranny and ruin.

[adorno]

Democrats managed to control the messages and the messengers, starting with the education systems, and the collages and universities, and the media (print, radio, TV, internet), and they also managed to take control of all major cities and many states, including their voting systems.

Who didn’t see that coming? Apparently, not the republicans.

So, now we have to get ready to battle them in the court systems, where democrats have been controlling the judgeships.

If we are to be controlled by all the means that democrats have in mind, then, they’re asking for CW2.

[Luke21]

Not only that, Breitbart has become a terrible site, amplifying every leftist opinion.

[RoosterRedux]

What the CCP is doing in America today makes the Manchurian Candidate look like a toy soldier.

They control our communications, our media, academia, our high tech industry, and one of our two political parties (the leadership of the other party consisting mostly of a bunch of worms).

[RoosterRedux]

The Democrats are just pawns. Useful idiots.

Xi is calling the shots, however indirectly.

[Steve_Seattle]

This is indeed a war. The events of January 6th - even before there was any sort of investigation into who was involved or how it happened - was INSTANTLY used to launch a wide-ranging wave of censorship and marginalization. People are losing their jobs who did absolutely nothing wrong.

We are experiencing gaslighting on a mass scale. The very people who demonize this country, its founders, its history, and its culture are telling us that we - who defend this country - are the real anti-Americans and traitors. The very people who promote racial identity politics, who introduce race into every discussion, are saying that we are the racists.

The people who rioted all last summer, in city after city, setting police cars on fire, smashing windows, burning down buildings, and looting stores, are saying that WE are the violent ones because of ONE riot that has still not been investigated.

[Bob434]

a distinction without a difference it seems?

[BobL]

“And OBTW, free enterprise “Big Tech” and “Social Media” have every right to speak or censor speech however they want. Government has no say.”

Based on that I guess you’d be ok if AT&T had decided to shut down the phone lines to Reagan campaign offices in 1980 and 1984. After all, AT&T is also ‘not’ government.

By the way, I would be against doing that, or doing the same to Carter/Mondole.

[Jim W N]

Utilities are its own category and government is involved with them and certain involvement would seem necessary although I’ve not studied the constitutional implications of such. Probably validly comes under the commerce clause (CC) although the feds have become quasi totalitarian by continuous and gross misapplication of things like the CC.

Twitter and FB, however, are not utilities and don’t affect the flow of commerce, only ideas. And ANYONE (rich PATRIOTS, are you listening?) can go into the free market to compete with these guys and should do so immediately. THAT is the answer to Leftist tech and social media. More unconstitutional regulation would certainly cause all free competition to stop - the exact opposite of what is needed.

If you’re a Patriot, fight for the side of freedom from government regulation and coercion, not the other way around.

[knarf]

Impeach Them All

[Bratch]

The problem is that "Big Tech" and "Big Business" OWN the government.

So they can use their connections to crush any would be competitors (see: Parlor).

The game's rigged.

[BobL]

“Twitter and FB, however, are not utilities and don’t affect the flow of commerce, only ideas. And ANYONE (rich PATRIOTS, are you listening?) can go into the free market to compete with these guys”

Ok, so we agree that they need to broken up on anti-trust since that is the law in this country. If so, that works too.

Thanks!

[Jim W N]

That’s on unconstitutional government bribery and unconstitutional government should be held accountable. The answer is certainly NOT more unconstitutional government regulation of business. (Socialist George Carlin was not on our side.)

[Jim W N]

I don’t agree with more unconstitutional anti-trust federal laws and acts.

The answer is the MARKETPLACE FREE from government interference. Free competition will bring other players into the marketplace. But government interference greatly dampens free competition and CAUSES one-sided bigness in business.

[Robert357]

Coordinated deprivation of rights is organized crime. RICO laws were meant to stop organized crime, even if it is big tech or the Democratic Party.

[Nateman]

...forced to shut down its comments section ....

One of the great features of Gab is an app called 'Dissenter'. ANY web page can be commented on. The app gathers comments from Gab users of a particular page and collects them all. It then outputs a page where all of the Dissenter comments are shown.

[kearnyirish2]

The Republicans (and anyone else) could see what happened leading up to the 2016 election, and realize how easy it would be to simply double down and go a step further.

Apparently it wasn’t important to them, in the end, they knew the government would be in the hands of the Uniparty/Republocrats anyway.