“If you got a gun in your hand, you’re free to make any speech you want to.” – All in the Family
I believe this meme to be false. Does that mean Snopes® has been debunked?
The biggest story of last week wasn’t the emails that allegedly show that Hunter Biden snorts coke off of hooker butts. Oh, and that he and his father worked in an alleged scheme to illegally take millions of dollars from foreign companies and governments to gain influence inside the United States, or what politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. call “Tuesday.”
No. That wasn’t the story. Corruption?
The biggest story of last week was censorship. Again.
This time, the censored were targeted by two of the usual suspects, Twitter® and Facebook™. What they censored (fairly effectively) was all of the Hunter Biden-related pictures and emails. Sure, millions of people have seen them, but they have largely been effective at shielding voters who are undecided from this information. Let’s face it – the Democrat idea of a bookmark is a lit match.
And it wasn’t random “conspiracy theorists” – this time it was the New York Post®, the newspaper with the fourth-largest circulation in the United States.
Yes, that’s a real headline.
Twitter® suspended account after account for publishing links to the New York Post™, including a White House press secretary, James Woods, and journalist Jack Posobiec. Yes. Twitter© turned off their accounts for publishing a link to a story in the New York Post®. Then Twitter© changed their software so you couldn’t even post the link.
Normally they also delete posts that are connected to barbed wire – they don’t want to cause a fence.
What reason did Twitter™ give? That the story contained personal email addresses and phone numbers, and that the story relied on illegally obtained material. Well, there certainly are email addresses and phone numbers in the story, but those had already been obtained by thousands of Ukrainian strippers and also printed in the New York Post™ for over 200,000 people, and unknown (but huge) numbers of readers on the Post© website.
Yet, when Trump’s taxes were the subject of the disappointingly boring story that Trump has good tax attorneys? Twitter® censored those posts, right?
No.
But Twitter™ took the account of the New York Post© offline. Yup. A newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton before he became black were taken offline for . . . publishing news. This like when they canceled the Chicago performance of Hamilton, the Musical because it was too cold. Once again Brrr killed Hamilton.
I once locked my keys in my car. Bothered me because it was going to rain and the top was down.
Twitter™ even placed a message on a Tweet® by a Senate Committee that the link listed was “potentially unsafe” and Biden hadn’t even sniffed anyone.
My mechanic told me my car was unsafe. I told him that bad brakes had never stopped me before.
Facebook™ did much the same, by “limiting sharing” of the story and noting that it would be fact-checked.
By who? Who is in charge of making these decisions? Generally, the “fact-checking” executives and organizations are heavily Leftist. And why not? The Left views control of speech as a primary weapon in the cultural war. Thankfully, there is someone checking on the checkers:
See, I thought corruption was only a problem at pretzel companies, where they’re all twisted.
Effectively, Facebook® and Twitter© have taken sides in an election. How much would the Biden-Harris campaign pay for those companies to shut down negative coverage of Joe? $100 million? $200 million?
Yes. They would (and could) pay them that much. But they don’t have to pay them, because they are doing it for free. At least it’s just Twitter™ and Facebook©?
Well, no. Try Wikipedia®’s article on the Hunter Biden controversy. If you were to believe that article, you’d be told that it was absolutely false that Hunter Biden ever did any of the things that we are now getting email confirmation of. Here’s a Breitbart article on this (LINK) subject. Thanks, Wikipedia™.
But not to be outdone, the New York Times™ shows that it’s been in the bag for Joe for months:
I heard a lot of New Yorkers had to use the newspaper for toilet paper during the Coronavirus shortage. The Times were rough.
I suppose that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But when factual information that shows that potential crimes have occurred at the highest levels of our government are suppressed? That shows that, finally, Leftist ideology will triumph over journalistic integrity every time. But the biggest integrity champion? The swimming pool on the Titanic. Still full.
There is, of course, the big libertarian argument: Facebook™, Wikipedia©, and Twitter® are private companies and can do as they wish.
Well, no. They are private companies and can do any legal thing that they wish to do. As I mentioned above, the Biden-Harris campaign would pay hundreds of millions of dollars for favorable treatment like they have been getting. Have they written a check to those companies? No. But Biden and Harris intend to give them billions of dollars.
How?
Through laws that have yet to be put in place that will favor them. Today’s actions to repress knowledge are (in my non-lawyerly opinion) nothing more than in-kind campaign contributions, even though Kamala has the California black vote all locked up.
Poor Bernie – he has Post Traumatic Debate Disorder.
YouTube® has joined in, too. Thirty big channels were just permanently shut down – big in that some had nearly a million subscribers. Here’s a list of just those greater with more than 200,000 subscribers, thanks to USSA News (LINK), H/T to Vox for the source (LINK).
- X22 Report (952,000 subscribers)
- SGTreport (630,000 subscribers)
- Edge of Wonder (467,000 subscribers)
- Praying Medic (391,000 subscribers)
- And We Know (385,000 subscribers)
- Amazing Polly (375,000 subscribers)
- Joe M (367,000 subscribers)
- Dollar Vigilante (304,000 subscribers)
- Mouthy Buddha (296,000 subscribers)
- JustInformed Talk (281,000 subscribers)
- RedPill78 (269,000 subscribers)
- The Patriot Hour (248,000 subscribers)
- In Pursuit of Truth (242,000 subscribers)
- Destroying the Illusion (238,000 subscribers)
- TRUreporting (215,000 subscribers)
I wasn’t a regular listener of any of them, but I had heard a video or two from some of them. The common thread?
All of them were on the Right.
This has been a theme since Alex Jones was shut out of the Twitter®-YouTube™-Facebook© ecosystem. Jones was a canary in the free-speech coalmine, and when they attempted to silence him it was greatly disturbing to me. Someone asked why I was so upset that a conspiracy theorist had been banned, and I said, “Why? Who are you working for??” It was obvious that this would not be the last banning, and the reasons for banning would become increasingly frivolous.
Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. You can’t tell me that’s a coincidence!
Now, banning takes place regularly and goes after increasingly more innocuous content. Innocuous unless you are on the Left, that is. If you’re on the Left? No dissenting voices are allowed. How bad are they?
Worse than you can imagine.
A Reddit link sent me to a comment section there, where they argued that all (and I mean all) of the 1980’s action movies were fascist. The people commenting were unwittingly sharing their true agenda – the destruction of everything that the United States ever was, or ever stood for. I heard that Arnold Schwarzenegger was upset, even though he has given up movies for the pest control business: he is an ex-terminator.
Earl could talk for 70 minutes at the Town Council meeting about the best ways to feed gophers.
Freedom of speech was popular with the Left as long as they could use it to push their minority opinion. Now? They realize that freedom of speech is their mortal enemy once they get into power. It’s fine to pretend that Leftism provides answers as long as we don’t actually use those ideas. Every time, and I mean every single time they’ve been tried they lead to misery.
How do you keep miserable people under control? No freedom of speech.
Oh, and never forget, the Second Amendment?
It protects the First.
It starts with million viewer channels on Youtube. It moves on to some guy writing thrice weekly righty columns with wacky memes and bad puns that all together make you stop and think. It ends with “…Remember that John Wilder guy who used to write the weather reports…what was that noise….AAAUUURRRGGGHHH!!!”
The only solution is for each and every one of those 942,000 people that just lost their channel to each buy a $50 1TB USB SSD, plug it into their computer, download from the original authors those files that just got nuked on Youtube, arrange similar download distribution of their new ones, and share them all via the original Napster concept (and not the neutered, commercialized version that exists today). Over the past 20 years e have allowed all the data to be centralized for convenience – and profit. Time to go back to Internet Old School. It’s gonna be a hassle to organize a new workaround, but like they said in Serenity – you can’t stop the signal.
Decentralized file sharing is the only way forward. That’s what samizdat looks like in 21st Century America.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/24/napster-music-free-file-sharing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
Available today:
https://retroshare.cc/
That’s the way that Bitchute is set up. They are working on fixing their search (which was scary bad) and now have an app.
More platforms to come . . .
Perfesser Wilder,
I started reading this on Friday.
I couldn’t take it.
I started again on Saturday and Sunday, but it was too much.
While reading this all the way through on early Monday, I felt like I got kicked in my gut.
Repeatedly.
Fortunately, energy is a pendulum.
The further the pendulum is pushed off its rest, the harder it strives to regain neutral, its natural equilibrium.
The marxists pushing automatically creates an inevitable collapse of their goals.
Coincidentally, a push to legitimize something as off-center as child rapists or First Child Hunter Biden will fail… while crushing their promoters on the swing back to normal.
Miss Harris as Madam President is as far off-center as the marxists can push.
No way, no how can they maintain that temporary ignorance of Natural Law.
Expect the recoil from that compressed spring to be devastating to the marxists.
Why?
The marxists are an artificial construct, they cannot exist in nature.
The marxists are in the same category as Western Hemisphere inhabitants prior to the European introduction of European diseases.
Their self-genocide is inevitable.
Among all the information Ol’ Remus freely shared with zero-zero-zero incentive to censor, one morsel of wisdom stands high above all the others:
* Avoid crowds.
In particular, avoid crowds of marxists.
Individually, a lone marxist will loudly fume and fuss, but its ability to ‘push the pendulum’ is limited to annoying the neighbors.
A crowd of marxists is never a pretty sight…
“A crowd of marxists is never a pretty sight…” I dunno Marge, a crowd of Marxists at the bottom of the ocean, all in matching cement footwear would be pretty swell… I’d buy a ticket for that submarine tour just to see it with my own eyes!
And we’re getting closer to the pendulum pushing back – Marxists haven’t fared well in the United States, at least traditionally.
I hope our winning streak continues.
The general heaving mass of the population that will vote Democrat know what is happening but they do not care as they are on the right side of history and are a force against hate. You cannot reason with these people. All you can do is find a lot of tall branches and have shares in a rope company.
Agreed. It’s the people on the Right plus the people who don’t care about politics at all (that can be convinced).
Amazing that everything is determined by those who care and know the least.
Just like the First, the Second Amendment only works if people actually use it.
Mountains of skulls, rivers of blood, oceans of tears.
And that’s if it goes well.
Many people will still be applauding the naughty thinkers being censored right up to the point that they get censored.
It always works that way – they never think their ideas will be up against the wall . . .