Big Tech’s War on Free Speech
... Alex Jones and his InfoWars website is a good case study in the tactics used to reduce a site’s impact... For the first time, the major online platforms coordinated their efforts.... Jones was virtually erased. ...
According to the Los Angeles Times, by mid-October 2018, Facebook purged more than 800 accounts and pages pushing “political messages.”...
Big Tech Is in Open War Against the Right
... Big Tech’s actions have been constant and consistent: If you challenge the establishment narrative, you will be banned. Here are just a few highlights:
In August they banned videos discussing alternative treatments for COVID-19, presumably because President Trump had promoted these treatments.... In August, Facebook threatened to cancel the Hodge Twins, brothers who committed the unforgivable crimes of being pro-Trump while black...
... while this was going on, the Big Tech platforms simultaneously engaged in a wholesale purge of the so-called QAnon accounts....
In just the past few days, Twitter banned the account of Trump campaign digital director Gary Coby, accusing him of letting Trump use his account. At the same time, conservatives on Twitter are reporting they’re losing tens of thousands of followers. Brian Kilmeade “lost 30K followers in 4 hours”; Terrence K Williams tweeted, “I lost 100,000 followers”; Omar Navarro “lost 28K followers in one day”...
Politico reports Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is “‘more determined than ever’ to repeal Section 230, a measure that protects internet platforms from lawsuits concerning third-party content.” But if platforms lose their immunity as platforms, things might get worse instead of better for free speech advocates.... Not only would all platforms be forced to regulate speech more tightly than ever, but only the big platforms—the leftist giants—would have the financial resources to withstand the inevitable and unrelenting torrent of lawsuits...
... Big Tech’s war on Red Ice TV reaches well beyond just being deplatformed by YouTube...
What about Laura Loomer, a content creator who is critical of Islam and mass immigration, a Jewish American, and a recent Republican congressional candidate in Florida?... Loomer has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, CashApp, Periscope, Uber, Uber Eats, Medium, Lyft, TeeSpring, and Chase. For what? Sharing her opinion?...
The only possible glimmer of hope in all this is the possibility they have not done “too little, too late,” but too much, too soon. They’ve shown their hand. Perhaps more people will walk away. Perhaps more people will take the red pill. Perhaps more people will realize that Trump wasn’t their enemy; that he was fighting for them; that he was fighting for all of us.
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The Endgame of Big Tech Is Corporate Socialism, Liberal Studies Scholar Says, by Petr Svab, Tpoch Times, October 16, 2019:
Giant tech companies, particularly those controlling the flow of information on the internet, are marching toward the creation of their own brand of a socialist system, says Michael Rectenwald, a former liberal studies professor at New York University and author of “Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom.”...
Rectenwald argues that the ideological tendencies of those corporations are particularly pernicious because the expanding “internet of things” increasingly permeates the digital realm into people’s lives....
While the companies are open about the practice of collecting user data to personalize ads and products for them, increasingly, there’s evidence that the companies are also using this data to reward or punish users for aligning or diverging from the companies’ preferred worldview....
Rectenwald said in an email. “The left is satisfied that woke capitalism reflects their values back to them, despite the fact that corporate power is thereby strengthened in the process"....
The idea of a socialist utopia implemented via a mega-powerful corporation is not new. King Camp Gillette, the founder of Gillette Co., wrote two books expounding on his idea of corporate socialism, arguing that socialism could be better achieved through a “World Corporation,” which was also the title of his second book....