Looks like the conversion to Socialism and Autocracy is moving faster than I would have thought. Socialism and autocracy has captured the following venues:
* High Schools
* Colleges & Universities
* Main Stream Media
* Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.)
This is being driven by the young people, who are highly educated, understanding that something is very wrong, but coming to the wrong conclusions that Capitalism is at fault and Socialism will be their savior. I think ultimately we'll see Socialism win in this country over the next 10-20 years and it will happen very fast. The conservatives and the Capitalists in this country are too few and too quiet, or maybe they just don't realize how fast Socialism is taking over to do anything about it in time.
Don't worry, sylvester. You will get what you want. If this thread still exists 10 years down the road, let's make sure we talk about what the world looks like then. I'll be curious to know whether you like the world that your people are ushering in. Censorship, vilification of people who don't agree with you, violence against others when they are from a different party, soft coups and disruption of Presidencies when they are from the opposite party, use of our secret and gov't services like the CIA, NSA, FBI, and IRS to harass, entrap and ultimately depose your political enemies, and use of main stream media to brainwash and silence the opposition....all of these things sound just great to the liberals right now. But what about when you win and the people you put in power use these very same techniques to enrich their cronies and screw the people who put them in power? When you don't like what you see and you realize that the same techniques you used, destroyed our institutions to the point that they can no longer be used to defend you, then will you regret your actions? Or will you forget what you've done and pretend that the autocracy you ushered in was what you wanted?
First they came for your enemies and you did not speak out, because you were glad they did. Then they came for your friends and you did not speak out, because you had something to lose. Then they came for you and there was no one left to speak out for you.
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The Crackdown Continues: Twitter Suspends Libertarian Accounts, Including Ron Paul Institute Director
One day after what appeared to be a coordinated attack by media giants Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google on Alex Jones, whose various social media accounts were banned or suspended in a matter of hours, the crackdown against alternative media figures continued as several Libertarian figures, including the Ron Paul Institute director, found their Twitter accounts suspended.
On Monday, Twitter suspended the editorial director of antiwar.com Scott Horton, former State Department employee Peter Van Buren, and Dan McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute.
Horton was reportedly disciplined for the use of "improper language" against journalist Jonathan M. Katz, he said in a brief statement, while McAdams was suspended for retweeting him, he said. Past tweets in both accounts were available to the public at the time of the writing, unlike the account of Van Buren, which was fully suspended.
According to TargetLiberty, Horton and McAdams fell victim of Twitter’s suspension algorithm after objecting to Katz’s quarrel with Van Buren over an earlier interview.
The suspensions come days after Twitter suspended black conservative Candace Owen from Twitter for highlighting the algorithmic hypocrisy of Twitter by replacing the word “white” with “Jewish” in a series of tweets modeled on those by New York Times editor Sarah Jeong.
just after controversial conservative Alex Jones, and his podcast InfoWars, were kicked out from most social media platforms, prompting conservative to accuse the social networks of collusion in a collective crackdown on non-mainstream voices. The Silicon Valley giants were criticized by the US political establishment for failing to prevent alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, critics now say the pressured media giants are engaging in political censorship, using their market dominance and lack of legislated neutrality requirements to target descent voices ahead of the midterm elections.
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In a scathing op-ed on Tuesday, Nigel Farage wrote that "while many on the libertarian right and within the conservative movement have their issues with Alex Jones and InfoWars, this week’s announcement by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify represents a concerted effort of proscription and censorship that could just as soon see any of us confined to the dustbin of social media history."
These platforms that claim to be “open” and in favor of “free speech” are now routinely targeting -- whether by human intervention or not -- the views and expressions of conservatives and anti-globalists.
This is why they no longer even fit the bill of “platforms.” They are publishers in the same way we regard news outlets as publishers. They may use more machine learning and automation, but their systems clearly take editorial positions. We need to hold them to account in the same way we do any other publisher.
Farage then accused social media giants of being corporatist:
That they cannot profess to be neutral, open platforms while being illiberal, dictatorial, and hiding behind the visage of a private corporation (which are more often than not in bed with governments around the world at the very highest levels).
This isn’t capitalism. It’s corporatism.
He concludes that the real interference in "US democracy" comes not from Russia, but from some of its most powerful corporations which now yield more power in some cases than the government itself: "This isn’t “liberal democracy” as they keep pretending. It’s autocracy."
"...for those that don’t take issue with the latest censorship of right-wingers by big social media -- unless we take a stand now, who knows where it could end." |
