Censorship is a recurring plague upon the free society that has once again reared its ugly head in recent times. I originally penned this essay nearly three years ago, upon the first major wave of “Big Tech” censorship that began with Alex Jones, but has culminated in incessant “fact checking” by so-called “impartial” bodies and now the permanent removal of the sitting president of the USA (and many other conservative voices), from Twitter and other online platforms. Whatever you may think of him, this action speaks volumes as to the state of American civilization, which to me seems all but a distant memory and a great idea, if not an actuality. These social networking companies including Google, Facebook, and Twitter with founding ties to government intelligence agencies, that are subsidized by taxpayers and granted legal immunities as platforms under Section 230 (despite acting as publishers), are actively stymieing and stifling dissent in the wake of an extremely controversial and contentious election under the guise of “community guidelines violations,” that are oftentimes arbitrarily and selectively enforced.
See the full article by Drew Maglio, September 28, 2022