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Between Covid, Deep State cover ups and numerous other major issues that citizens need to know the truth about, the level of censorship grows almost daily. This article starts out discussing the coverage of the Julian Assange extradition hearings but goes deeper into the whole tie in between the major platforms like Facebook, Utube etc and the deep state. The amount of control over what is allowed to be seen and discussed is appalling.
Reporters Claim Facebook is Censoring Information on Julian Assange Case
Time to move out of Daddy’s house and get your own place if you don’t want him telling you who you can be friends with. Look how fast pulled videos from Youtube get reposted to Bitube and other places. Newspapers always had a political slant during elections, even coming out in support of one party or another, why should we expect free hosting services to be free speech advocates? Besides, it’s the MSM that is going to lose out of all this censorship because they’re sending some of the best content to their new rivals, the most viral alternate material. I see this censorship thing as just the maturing of the online medium.
But it does show us that there’s someone pulling strings out there and they’ve got their reasons. The pattern of censorship, like with HCQ was quite revealing. Sometimes I think that if a controversial video is still on Youtube after a week then it must not be very good! You know who’s telling the truth because they get kicked off of social media and labelled as “discredited” on Wikipedia.
Hear hear
Slowly then rapidly people are waking up that if they want to hear an other side to the ONE Story they must search for new outlets
Search Engine ? Duckduckgo
Browser ? Brave
Video Platform ? Bitchute
Alternative media Stories…Hearst
You couldn’t be more wrong. I agree that people should look for multiple venues to gather as much objective information as possible to make sure they are getting all sides of a story. Howwever, platforms like Facebook, UTube etc. have a resposibility not just to be profit maximizing corporations. Just like TV stations and other utlities, internet platforms have an obligation to accept all paying customers and let them provide what message they want to convey without censorship. You can’t have it both ways. You either allow all comers or you don’t. Just like a restaurant or public business can’t discriminate on who they serve if they are not disturbing other customers, creating a health hazard or some other legitimate reason.
The problem lies in the protections afforded to “open” platform companies that effectively do just the opposite – (closed via censorship) – how are they not publishers and if I haven’t broken any constitutional laws, why the hell can’t I sue the $#!t out of them?
5/29/20
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/white-house-plans-empower-fcc-regulate-american-social-media-giants
10/06/20
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/facebook-removes-twitter-flags-trump-covid-19-comment
You’re right that they have an obligation not to discriminate except for content that might be illegal or something like that. I just don’t think there is any practical way to enforce it and owning one’s site and platform isn’t too hard to do. The only thing the big platforms offer apart from hosting is easier access to an audience through the sidebar and links in username retweets and comments. I think this will be a minor thing in the future as more aggregators and news portals spring up. Goldtent is acting like that now for not just the PMs but also Covid stuff.
What distinguishes FB/GOOG/Twit from the Tent is Size, Power and Influence and there are laws in place like 230 that allow them to keep that structure despite their obvious editorial (aka publisher) behavior. I’d agree that the market will chose winners and losers in the space however such is not the case with these three (and their properties like TY). Simply put, they are LIARS professing an ‘open’ platform. Just like with monopolies in the past there will come a time when anti-trust laws are enforced for the general public’s benefit, not just leftist and globalists. GOOG and FB are political agents and have much to lose if Trump wins.