This is what we warned about last year, at least those of us who are not in the pockets of Wall Street and giving lap dances to the affluent and influential, when Facebook and Twitter started deplatforming people who committed the crime of stating opinions that were politically intolerable to policy makers, corporate media denizens and 33% of the electorate. While many on the “left” were celebrating the erasures of Donald Trump, Alex Jones and carnival barkers on the “other side”, we defended the very people we found to be indefensible because we believe in free speech and more importantly know that censorship which targets individuals and groups on the fringes quickly metastasizes and starts to attack anyone who does not share the dogmas of the establishment.
It took less than a year before our predictions became reality; over the past couple of months, Facebook, Twitter and Google have lowered the hammer on independent journalists across the spectrum in what can only be attributed to a coordinated campaign to eradicate opinions that are contrary to conventional wisdom and silence non-corporate journalists. It’s been happening at an alarming rate, every day truth-seekers who refuse to be poodles of the very people they are supposed to check are being kicked off social media platforms they have used for years—in some instances more than a decade and a half—as their followers are wiped out and the content they painstakingly curated at the push of a [deleted]. As always, fascists cover their pernicious actions with the blanket of “the public good” only to place the pillow of suppression over society’s face to suffocate our privacies and our rights...continued...
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