As the divide continues along political lines in this country as well as the world, it seems more and more that people are calling for censorship. What they're basically saying is they don't like the opinion of the person they want to censor, so they should be silenced. They have no problem celebrating when people are censored.
Lately, it's been mostly conservative and truther oriented people who question the narrative being put out there by the mainstream media. They are being deplatformed off of places like Twitter, Facebook and those sites. They're also having their ability to engage in internet commerce via places like PayPal taken away from them. And people cheer for this.
People ought to be troubled by this trend. The reason is obvious. It might be somebody they don't like being censored first, but as this movement gains hold, people you agree with will be censored. Maybe you will be next? You have to look at this and see the bigger picture developing. People still don't believe there's a movement buy the elite of the world to take control, tear down borders and implement their New World Order. This is something too complicated to discuss here, but you can certainly find that evidence relatively easily to decide for yourself.
What is happening here is no less than biblical. It's part of Bible prophecy. When this is pointed out, non-Christians and non-religious people roll their eyes and say it's fantasy. However, when you read these prophecies and look at the world and see them coming to pass, you cannot ignore them. It's been said that it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. If they believe it and are working on making it happen, you should be concerned.
With the censorship happening on the internet and the fact that people are losing their ability to buy and sell on the internet, something very dangerous is happening. The trend is only going to get worse. People will be scored in the new technocracy, and if their reputation is low enough, they too could lose their ability to buy and sell and engage in the conversation on the internet.
One of the arguments people use in favor of censoring people is that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are privately owned. You don't have a right to free speech there. If they decide to remove you from those platforms, it's their property and their right. It's not mentioned in the Constitution under your right to free speech. Again, since the censorship is happening to people that are unpopular with others, some people will turn a blind eye and let it happen.
But when the Constitution was formed, they had no concept of what an internet would be. You're free speech at the time was getting up on a soapbox in the public square and saying what was on your mind. People could come and go and listen if they wanted, but you had the right to be out there to be heard by those who would listen.
With the internet, these types of conversations are happening there instead. The founding fathers had no idea that this would be the case. More and more, we are plugged into the internet via our smartphones. They are with us constantly as we keep updated on the latest happenings. When we're not allowed to engage in the conversation there, our free speech is indeed being violated. the internet has become an extension of the public square soapbox.
The reason they want to shut everybody down is because they don't want dissenting opinions. They don't want conversation with differing views that allow us to arrive at a consensus. They want us to pick sides and divide us while they push an agenda through that may not be in people's best interest.
What is happening is much bigger than left versus right or Republican versus Democrat. The sides are just being used against each other while the agenda pushes through. When they call for censorship against opposing views, thereby allowing negative opinion to represent somebody without them being able to defend themselves, we are entering very dangerous territory. censorship of opinions, however unpopular, is not a good thing. It's certainly not what is done in a free society.
