Post by NFA on Oct 19, 2020 19:10:58 GMT 8
The bid for total digital censorship is now out in the open - Posted by Pointman on October 18, 2020
A small group of people were using a particular issue to gain total control of other people’s lives and bludgeon into absolute, silent submission all dissent, and the weapons used are always the same – censorship and intimidation.
I call it the dictator compulsion.
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Stripping away a lot of noise and heat from the particular issue, what was actually happening was one of history’s oft repeated patterns.
A small group of people were using a particular issue to gain total control of other people’s lives and bludgeon into absolute, silent submission all dissent, and the weapons used are always the same – censorship and intimidation.
I call it the dictator compulsion.
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Despite their constant declarations to the contrary, the politic leaning of all the big social media platforms is far left, if not outright socialist.
The invariable traits of that ilk of politics all involve either asserting total minute control of people or the ruthless suppression of any dissenters.
Given their leftward political leanings to control and suppress people’s political views, that’s exactly what they started doing in earnest after the 2016 election.
The digital equivalent of Orwell’s fictional Ministry of Truth slowly became today’s reality.
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Above all, the intimidation factor is always present when using their platforms.
You begin to think carefully about whatever thought you were going to express and the first time you do that, their ultimate aim has been achieved – you’re self-censoring.
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The dictator compulsion caused journalism to lose all credibility and therefore their business.
It will cause social media to lose all trust, and therefore their monopoly business, except in their case the effect will be worse.
People don’t like being censored.
That leads to antipathy which is the first step to outright hatred of them, as fake news has learnt.
Using their services will eventually be seen in the same light as collaborating with a dictator.