There's
no avoiding what's happening now. We've reached a point where if you disagree
with the narrative being promoted by the mainstream media, you risk
losing your ability to ask questions online. When you follow the trail of
evidence, it's easy to come to the conclusion that you're not
being told the truth. If you speak out against that, you risk being banned and removed from social
media platforms. Is this the world we want
to live in?
For those buying into the official
narrative every time or simply enjoying the fact that people they
oppose are being censored, they have a simple response. If you get
banned, suspended or have warning labels put on your comments, these
people will tell you that you're using somebody elses platform. They will
tell you that you have no right to free speech, because whatever
corporation owns the platform you are using.
When
The Constitution was forged, free speech meant the ability to use
the public square to voice your grievances. It spoke of your right to
assemble among your peers. It's much deeper than that, but it speaks to
the idea that your ability to express yourself wouldn't be censored.
What the founding fathers didn't envision was that so much political and
social debate would take place on the internet at various social media
platforms. There was nothing like that in the 1700s.
The
internet was the Wild West when it was introduced. As technology made
it more affordable for people to be on the internet, this is where big
social and political discussions started taking place. It's to the point
now where politicians use various social media platforms when
campaigning during an election. They depend on the ability to get their
message out to the people.
However, we've even witnessed social media
platforms banning politicians during election campaigns. People are
saying that social media platforms have a right to do that. In the
process of banning politicians during political campaigns, social media
sites are picking sides in an election and effecting the outcome.
In
censoring certain political points of view, they are manipulating the
debate. The fact that somebody owns that platform is simply not an
acceptable excuse to advocate for censorship. Anybody who intellectually
analyzes this will understand it immediately. It doesn't matter that
somebody owns a platform like Twitter or Facebook. If it's being used in
the free expression of ideas and basically being treated as the public
square, a person should not be denied their free speech.
YouTube
made a disturbing proclamation. They will start censoring any
discussions regarding the election. Despite the fact that reasonable
questions and concerns have not been addressed in a satisfying manner,
social media is gaslighting everybody to tell them that it's all
legitimate. They have proclaimed that there is no election fraud. They
don't even want to have discussions to come to an understanding, reveal
that things are legitimate or reveal that things are not quite
legitimate. If there are even the slightest irregularities with this
election, they must be brought to light and fixed for the future.
Making
it even more disturbing is the fact that after the 2016 election, the
media continued to push the narrative that Russia somehow manipulated
the outcome. Social media allowed people who didn't like the outcome to
blame everything on Russia. In fact, people are still doing that. You
can't have it both ways. If people are allowed to question the 2016
outcome, even when the Russia narrative has been thoroughly debunked,
people should be allowed to question the outcome of the 2020 election.
The
biggest concern people ought to have is that censorship is going to
force people to think a certain way. When the big tech companies put
themselves above the government and our established rule of law, we've
got an even bigger issue. If we don't take a stand against this now, it
will be too late.
Even people on the left are beginning to be penalized
for not expressing the proper opinions on social media, and it's only
just begun. For those on the left cheerleading for people on the right
to be deplatformed, take note. Once that happens and the people you
don't like have been eliminated, who do you think they will come after
next?
