By now everybody’s heard about Facebook’s banning of Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Louis Farrakhan.
You may not have heard that simply posting links to Jones and Watson can get you a Facebook ban, as well.
Infowars is subject to the strictest ban. Any account that shares Infowars content will see the content removed; if an account violates terms on multiple occasions it will be banned. Facebook and Instagram will remove any content containing Infowars videos, radio segments, or articles, and Facebook will remove any Groups set up to share Infowars content and Events promoting any of the banned extremist figures, according to a company spokesperson. (Twitter, YouTube, and Apple have also banned Alex Jones and Infowars.)
But in their magnanimity, our tech oligarch overlords have thrown their serfs a bone.
Jones, Yiannopoulos, Watson, Loomer, Nehlen, and Farrakhan are all personally banned, as are any accounts set up in their likenesses. But users may still praise those figures on Instagram or share content related to them that doesn’t violate other Instagram and Facebook terms of service.
You read that right. Not only are FB users forbidden to share links to Alex Jones, the social media giant will punish users for praising him.
Look, we’ve been over this before. The 2016 election humiliated our ruling class. They’ve issued strict orders to their Big Tech trigger men to make sure it never happens again.
The delplatforming of dissident influencers thought to have moved the needle for Trump started out relatively subtle. At least by Silicon Valley bugman standards.
Now they’ve dropped even the pretense of free speech and are imposing a Soviet style lock down across the board.
Why are the online gulag wardens so emboldened?
Because the very Republicans that Big Tech’s muzzling campaign is directed against have made it clear they won’t lift a finger to prevent their own defeat.
Anyone who wants you condemned to penniless, disenfranchised second-class citizenship is not your friend.
The response to Conservative traitors mouthing “Muh free market!” bromides is to ask two questions.
- Who benefits from letting Big Tech have free rein to internally exile dissidents?
- Does allowing 1 help the people cultivate virtue?
Anyone who argues against regulating the Big Tech trusts at this point is either an establishment shill like Phillips or doesn’t understand cause and effect.
Big Tech’s censorship spree is intended to make sure that the increasingly socialist Democrat party secures permanent electoral victory. Government intervention is the only way to stop them. Failing to stop them, even in the name of capitalism, ensures capitalism’s demise.
And let us hear no more of this, “Just be good, and the Big Tech commissars won’t send you to the social media gulag!” claptrap. Alex Jones, PJW, and MILO are rather tame civic nationalists. Now just favorably mentioning the first two can get you banned.
The Left only tolerates dissent when they lack the power to enforce conformity.
Traitors like Phillips have floated the Christian bakery story in ill-advised defense of their principle of preemptive surrender.
The Colorado case more aptly illustrates the fact that the death cult will not leave you alone. Quiet, personal dissent is not allowed. They will chase you down and make you submit.
Unless the Republicans who theoretically control 2.5 branches of government find their dormant sense of self-preservation.