Posted on 01/10/2022 9:21:15 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The America First movement needs to take control of the narrative when it comes to the core issues that define the 2022 and 2024 elections. Chief among the crises facing our nation is the rise of Big Tech.
Silicon Valley quickly became some of the most authoritarian overlords in America, especially during the pandemic. It is not question that Big Tech poses an existential threat to the American Republic. Take this last week as a prime example: Twitter banned Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and the inventor of the mRNA vaccine, Dr. Robert Malone, for “wrong speak” on the issue of COVID. Because they can, and no one will do anything about it.
And while the economy has clearly presented an opportunity for Republican candidates to differentiate themselves from the disastrous and inflationary mess of Biden and the Democrats for the 2022 midterms, we cannot focus there alone. Instead, Republicans must pivot to the cultural fronts that have allowed the Democrats to seize near-total control of every major institution in American society. At the forefront of this culture war is the behemoth of Big Tech.
The threat of Big Tech goes beyond their efforts to censor conservatives, which began long before Donald Trump first came down the escalator in Trump Tower. When all major social media platforms almost simultaneously banned President Trump in January, they were making clear to the entire world that they had become more powerful than the President of the United States. In that moment, Big Tech became the Fifth Estate, and has since worked hand-in-hand with the Biden regime to continue cracking down on political dissent, essentially acting as a new branch of government.
Even as the GOP gradually shifts to more conventional political issues, a handful of candidates have continued sounding the alarm on the threat of Big Tech. One of the most prominent members of this category are U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters in Arizona.
Masters provided a comprehensive diagnosis of the Big Tech problem as an op-ed in the New York Post. The interference in the 2020 election went far beyond the usual pattern of social media platforms simply censoring conservative voices, and even greater than all of the tech giants’ coordinated efforts to censor the damning Hunter Biden laptop revelations.
As the article notes, and as Masters had previously pointed out on Twitter, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg effectively staged a corporate takeover of the public operators of elections in key battleground states. And he’s out for more.
(Mark Zuckerberg also donated $300 million to organizations to distribute to local election officials in order to “bolster democracy.” No doubt all that cash was spent in a nonpartisan fashion!) — Blake Masters (@bgmasters) September 23, 2021
The Facebook chief deployed over $400 million to various organizations, especially government election boards, aimed at “getting out the vote” ahead of 2020 under the guise of “coronavirus safety voting projects.” The only problem is that his funds overwhelmingly went to heavily Democratic cities and counties in the crucial swing states, artificially tilting the scales in favor of Joe Biden when all the usual electoral and historical trends pointed to President Trump getting easily re-elected.
The Big Tech issue is only going to worsen over time. In just a matter of years, the social media giants went from systematic censorship of conservatives to openly financing election fraud, and then banning the sitting President of the United States when he dared to call it out. The increasingly institutional approach of Silicon Valley is going to get stronger as 2024 draws closer, when they will surely wage a total battle to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
Clearly, the preponderance of the Republican voter base finds Big Tech odious and yearns for candidates willing to dismantle these monopolistic companies. But many in Congress, including many Republicans and Libertarians, either do not grasp the intricacies of Big Tech’s threats, or are unwilling to provide a reasonable solution other than “start your own Facebook.”
Clearly, the preponderance of the Republican voter base finds Big Tech odious and yearns for candidates willing to dismantle these monopolistic companies.
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And yet they will continue to re-elect Assistant Democrats....
There is a level of energy among the base that’s unprecedented in my lifetime, with efforts being directed at local school boards, city council races and other hyper-local efforts in red counties all over the country.
It’s a sad fact of life that at the national and state levels, as a matter of pure pragmatism, the Republican party has to be the vehicle for change. It’s going to be frustrating, and there will be setbacks, but there is hope. Interesting to me is that this is happening in spite of, and by routing around the big tech monopolies. Telegram, mailing lists, even Zoom conferences are forming around these local races. Tilting at Silicon valley is fine, but breaking the monopolies is not a condition precedent for advancing the populist and “America First” movement.
Compare “Alphabet” or Google to the anti-trust breakups of the past like telecoms or other monopolies.
Google is the most powerful monopoly in history in its own right. The fact that all of Big Tech functions like a globalist elite council should frighten us all.
I have a feeling the free market will take care of big tech soon
leave section 230 alone
There is a reason why Facebook and the rats suddenly want it revoked..
It protects social media from being sued from any content
take that away and it will mean up and coming “free speech” platforms will be sued into the ground unless they censor like big tech
All social media platforms need to break out their political feeds into a different silo. There can be ads there, people can go there and argue politics and that’s about it. The platform cannot endorse any candidates and provide an equal playing field for all candidates.
Really what we need is a fairness doctrine for the internet.
Chief among the crises facing our nation is the rise of election fraud.
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