I wouldn’t doubt it. Powerful entities like google have the ability to kill free speech by simply blacklisting sites like FR.
Too many people defending God, country, liberty here. We openly discuss Life, Liberty, marriage, patriotism, constitution, God, guns, etc, on this site. This marks us as dangerous extremists to the big government progressive socialist/fascist democrats.
This is what I think the “hate speech/hate group” agenda being pushed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and similar groups is all about. (And now being embraced by the “Justice” Department.) Make a master list of groups you don’t like, classify them as “hate groups,” and then try to shut down dissent through having their websites and communications blocked by Google, McAfee etc.
My church has already been through this. We were classified by the local atheist/homosexual rights crowd (generally they are the same people, or there is a large amount of overlap/coordination) as a hate group. The proof? One of our associate pastors, thirty years before, had been a youth pastor at Jim Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (which at the time was classified as a “homophobic hate group” by the SPLC). The second charge: Our senior pastor a number of years before had attended a luncheon where the speaker was one of the people that allegedly supported the passage of anti-homosexual “death” legislation in Uganda (I think this has largely been shown to be bunk, but it keeps getting repeated over and over again). The irony is that both the Mayor and the Lieutenant Governor were at the same lunch. (They also ended up being classified as “haters.”)
So that’s the strategy. Get your enemies classified as “haters,” and then the private sector/government can shut you down, not as a violation of free speech but in order to prevent “violence.”
The fact is that our pastors are scrupulously neutral when it comes to politics, so although we may have our views as followers of Jesus, we do not get involved in politics.
The ultimate irony is that we were once also picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church for being “pro-gay.”