"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Vladimir Ilich Lenin
George Rebane
There is no longer any reason to deny the death throes of the First Amendment. The country’s Left, working hand-in-glove with its media, public education, and corporatist lackies, has won the Newspeak and censorship wars. This morning we heard from FN and Politico that President Trump’s Twitter account has been “suspended”. (here) Why? Well, our chief executive dared to point out the burgeoning Hunter Biden email scandal that the New York Post uncovered and dared to publish. (more here) Of course, the NYP had its social accounts quickly taken down as the lamestream media pitched in to try and kill the story.
These are just the latest in a rapidly growing trend of social media companies censoring any and all content that goes counter to the Left’s narrative of the country’s ills which require its prescribed fundamental transformation of America. The alarums, now being raised here and there by opposing voices, point to this avalanche of avaricious one-sided virtue signalers. However, these voices are getting little or no traction in the public square. The careful media consumer already has seen FN, that formerly stalwart bulwark of 'fair, balanced, and unafraid' news, begin its quiet ‘go along to get along’ with the loud voices of the Left.
Nevertheless, some worthies are not giving up without a fight. Evidence that FN is not yet fully committed to the devil’s den, it has posted ‘Ex-Facebook honcho Tim Kendall says Big Tech is a “threat to democracy”, calls for social media reform’. (H/T to reader) Therein Kendall makes the point that big tech is engaged in a “global assault on democracy”. He has produced ‘The Social Dilemma’, a film streaming on Netflix, in which he and other epiphanied high tech execs give their versions of the deluge of fake news, misinformation, and behavior modifying stimuli that pour out of the web pages of today’s social media giants.
“There are studies that show false information or fake news spreads six times faster online than accurate information. The attention-based business model of social media companies perpetuates outlandish, extreme, and controversial content that tends to receive more clicks and views. Content laced with misleading information that undermines faith in elections and other institutions vital to democracy is particularly dangerous for our society. In the near term, everyone should tune out the noise online and vote with confidence, whether by mail or in-person, and participate in this crucial democratic process.”
Before the metastasis of this communications cancer, we already witnessed corporatists willingly sell socialists the rope with which America's capitalists will be hanged. Today this enterprise has expanded to corporatists vying with each other to hand that rope gratis to our country’s comrades.
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