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Americans forced underground Exclusive: Sean Harshey, in wake of Big Tech crackdown, advises readers to keep their heads down
wnd.com ^ | 1/13/2021 | Sean Harshey

Posted on 01/14/2021 7:50:56 AM PST by rktman

In just over two years, suppression of political speech online has grown from Google's purge of conservative employees and the subsequent collusion between tech companies to simultaneously ban commentator Alex Jones from their platforms, to the point where these companies are emboldened not only to ban the president of the United States from social media, but official campaign websites, financial services – and even his email companies are refusing service. In the past week, Twitter removed over 70,000 conservative accounts, and Facebook suspended former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul after he wrote a column criticizing tech censorship.

In a remarkable development, the American Civil Liberties Union has weighed in by sounding the alarm over the "unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions."

Americans are concerned things will get worse. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on airlines to put political opponents on terrorist no-fly lists; an attorney for the Public Broadcasting System was caught on tape discussing seizing children from Republicans and sending them to 'reeducation camps'; and large corporations are openly targeting Republican members of Congress for voting or debating against their agenda.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 230; bigtech; censorship; firstamendment; freespeech; internet; technotyranny
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THIS JUST IN-—Big Tech lets the FBI and DOJ “monitor” social media platforms.......and who else in L/E and intel is “monitoring” us?

REFERENCE: The Obama-corrupted FBI and the DOJ admitted on Monday that, via monitoring social
media platforms, they were aware of both the left and the right’s plans to mount an effort to storm the Capitol. .......
Yet, the FBI chose to do nothing more than send out the most rudimentary, standard warnings to the Capitol Police and other L/E officials.

As Biden kneels in obeisance, awaiting his orders from his masters in China, we have only to observe
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong to see what direction Biden/China will move the US.

A Hong Kong internet provider has blocked access to a website following a police order
this is the first confirmed crackdown using a new “national security law” imposed in 2020 by Beijing.

Instances of Big Tech trampling free speech abound: including Pres Trump, Parler, Trump’s defenders in Congress, and we, the people.....

The vengeful Prog/Lib Biden/China blacklisting has begun.
“Big Tech”.....(snicker).

They are a ghoulish reincarnation of tin pot dictators behind the Iron Curtain, in SE Asia, assorted Middle East hellholes....and Hong Kong.


21 posted on 01/14/2021 8:33:10 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Rurudyne

If we fight 2 to 5 million may die. If we don’t 100 million will die. We know what happens when communist/fascist take control. They will use law, such as the no fly list to come after our arms. They are already dividing and separating us with the lock downs. They will come after us one by one. Once sufficiently disarmed, they will come after us community by community.


22 posted on 01/14/2021 8:34:19 AM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: dfwgator
We just have to become more subtle and stealth about it.

No sorry. I'm an American. I will not snivel in some corner... and I cannot be cancelled.

I'm just waiting for something to SMASH.

23 posted on 01/14/2021 8:50:09 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: AAABEST

There will come a time for that.


24 posted on 01/14/2021 8:50:56 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: polymuser
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...
We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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Reposting your comment for its wisdom and truth. Great post.

25 posted on 01/14/2021 8:53:17 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: rktman
"put political opponents on terrorist no-fly lists"

Let him do it. Let Shuck take the first step. Then when Trump or NextTrump takes it back (and we will, after a Depression or a war), we will bring back Roman exsilium.Watching people board the US Federal Exile jet live on the internet lofl ...

"There is the US Federal Exile jet, to take you anywhere in the world that will have you. You have no papers here; your US assets are forfeit. If you set foot on American territory again, you will serve your full natural life in prison. Goodbye."

26 posted on 01/14/2021 8:53:18 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: rktman

All the left is trying to do is plant the seeds of more revolts.


27 posted on 01/14/2021 8:53:47 AM PST by Biggirl ("Iden One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians-4:6)
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To: rktman

You’ve heard the saying: if they want our guns, they’re planning something we’d shoot them for. This is that.


28 posted on 01/14/2021 8:59:08 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: rktman

Bump


29 posted on 01/14/2021 9:00:45 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: ping jockey

History forgotten is history repeated.

Without light, ALL is darkness.


31 posted on 01/14/2021 9:07:26 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: rktman

> That’s how I read it as well. Below the radar so to speak.

The trick will be to keep actions from being directly associated with your person.

If the full weight of the government comes after you, you’re done even if you are President. That has been shown.

But they don’t have infinite resources to track everything at once, so a little operational security will go a long way. Make any connections to yourself not obvious. ex. giving money or resources to a group, do it through an LLC or other group. Make hops before things get back to you. It enables deniability.

This is the strategy used by the Pelosi’s with Dominion Voting Systems - I believe her hubby has an interest in a company that has an interest in Dominion. It’s a non-obvious connection, but the money flows back to them one way or another.


32 posted on 01/14/2021 9:11:15 AM PST by glorgau
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ALL AMERICAN BUSINESSES better take serious heed of today’s warnings about being soooooooo heavily Internet, big-data and coder (and therefore leftist, China and India) dependent.

They’ve a lubricated noose around their necks, for many years now, that can easily (as we now see clearly) yank them into submission, muteness or financial death.


33 posted on 01/14/2021 9:14:45 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: dfwgator

I went the other direction.
Bridge burning is necessary sometimes.
As George said, “It’s better to be alone than in bad company.”


34 posted on 01/14/2021 9:18:39 AM PST by glasseye ("When nothing in society deserves respect we should in solitude create our own silent loyalties. ")
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To: D Rider

They plan for death. Bill Ayers and company speculated they’d have to kill 25 million when there were a lot fewer of us.

But what they refuse to remember is that when they finally get their way in 7 short years Christ returns and those serving Antichrist all die and will be damned.


35 posted on 01/14/2021 9:20:23 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rktman
If we do to Amazon what we did to Fox, they will get off our case thatfast.
36 posted on 01/14/2021 9:27:44 AM PST by Nick Danger
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To: Billthedrill

If you think it’s time to bury your guns, it’s probably time to dig them up. See tagline.


37 posted on 01/14/2021 9:35:45 AM PST by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: dfwgator
Never hint at what you really feel

No thanks. Millions of people, mostly all dead now, already tried that in recent history. "How we burned in the camps..."

38 posted on 01/14/2021 9:40:34 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Billthedrill

Exactly. History shows what happens to a defenseless population. The house bills (6) introduced into Congress is just a start, NON- COMPLIANCE will be just the first response. Realize just how scared all the congress critters cowered in fear when just a handful of unarmed protesters breached the building...how will they react when armed groups show up at their houses? They fail to realize how any attacks on our 2nd Amendement will unleash a historic, massive push back. It does not take a genius to see where their gun / ammo grabbing attempts will lead to. May God help us all.


39 posted on 01/14/2021 9:42:05 AM PST by delta7
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To: dfwgator

There’s a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here


40 posted on 01/14/2021 9:43:55 AM PST by kosciusko51
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