#7. You are correct re “shadow banning or outright banning of conservatives is obviously a major front opened by the Left against the rest of us”.
Straight out of communist tactical manuals - deny the opposition the means of mass communications.
Remember that the first thing Castro’s communist forces did when they seized Havana was to takeover the official TV station and then radio stations.
Years ago the Left opposed the Fairness Doctrine re “equal time” requirements (so did Conservatives).
Then they tried to impose “Net Neutrality” on the Internet and almost succeeded because of leftists on the FCC. All this despise published articles on the two main authors of “Net Neutrality” theory. They were both hardcore Marxists, one a journalism professor as I recall (possibly named McDouglas/McDougal and/or Nichols).
They had published a book in the 80’s about this though I think McDougal, possible first name Curtis, had written about this leftist control plan years earlier.
I know that www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org has something on this and probably www.keywiki.org (by name of “Net Neutrality” or by the names of its two creators.
You can be sure that the Democrat left is all for this attack on the First Amendment because they are beginning to use their attack on the 1st as a stepping stone for attacking the 2nd Amendment.
This is how the communists/Marxists operate. Attack,disinformation, propagandize the population, lawsuits, fake news (using the mainstream media as their intermediary voices/tools), and then by Congressional voting.
Notice that this attack is being carried out by very white, very rich liberals from Facebook and Twitter, among other electronic media operations. Talk about “communist stooges” - this is a whole congo-line of them.
Their adherence to the Constitution only runs as far as their bank accounts. They are the “dupes with the dollars”, so the communists are going to use them as frontmen for their media control schemes, which almost succeeded under Obama and Holder and their leftists on the FCC.
I don’t read Alex Jones and Inforwars. Don’t trust him for accuracy or honesty, so I don’t have a dog in his fight per se, but I do have one in the larger fight for keeping the First Amendment alive and well for all.
Time to strike back hard at the Left, however you can legally and financially.