Posted on 09/03/2018 11:20:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Politicians aren't saviors or messiahs. Devoutly secular worship of government – the belief that the State (capital S) is God – is inherent in the Democratic Party's ideology and marketing.
At the risk of belying my adamant opposition to idolatry, I implore President Trump to save free speech on the internet.
The president has been busy keeping many of the promises he made as a candidate, so perhaps my request is unfair. I'm mindful, however, that he has similarly ambitious and entrepreneurial children, who are active on social media.
Politics is sales, and here's my pitch.
Americans Are Powerless
From Dennis Prager to The New York Post to Alex Jones, among others, we've watched the Big Tech Industrial Complex purge speech and rhetoric with which it disagrees.
It's no small irony that the same tech companies that manipulated search data, such as Google, to work to help Hillary Clinton – she of the faux socialist resistance to the rich and powerful – constitute an absurdly rich and absurdly powerful Brahmin-like conglomerate of omnipotent tech demigods.
Think long and hard about this: what, really, can we the American people do about shadowbanning? Or sudden, abrupt removals of comments or posts? Or popular videos that are placed on page 425 of a search engine, or, worse, are blocked from public viewings due to creepily arbitrary "hate speech" standards? Perhaps most disheartening is that we don't know what we don't know, and now that the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's likely that the tech companies will never be able to restore trust in their impartiality and integrity – much the same way many Americans will never again trust the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex).
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On the same subject, American Thinker needs to get on Gab.ai and stop bowing to the Twitter/Facebook trust.
Since when is the “microphone” of Big Tech required for Americans to speak?
Big Tech has been the Public Square for several years now. Alt Tech is trying to change that; but for the foreseeable future will only be suitable as a way for people who are already like-minded to communicate. To reach the public, people need the Public Square.
Speak all you want, no one is listening. Troglodytes Unite.
I cannot figure my way around Gab.ai ... there’s something about the format that makes me feel like I don’t know where I am, or where UP is, or anything.
But, but, but... Free Market!
/sarcoff
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Long gone are the days like this until we get some competition in the searching business.
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