Posted on 08/08/2018 6:53:59 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I’ve been warning everyone who would listen about the greatest threat to freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion in America today.
It’s not government.
Instead, the overt attack on America’s First Amendment comes from the corporate behemoth new media gatekeepers who are in ideological lockstep with each other – from Google to YouTube to Facebook to Twitter to Apple to Amazon.
This week, YouTube and Facebook followed Apple’s lead in banishing Alex Jones, the iconic, high-energy voice that rails against globalism and the Deep State daily on radio, podcasts and his own Infowars TV show. He was an easy target – and a predictable one, a controversial figure, without doubt, and a high-profile one with a sizable following.
Not everyone wants to defend Alex Jones – certainly not everything he says.
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D@mn Right!
The Commie-fa are on the rise.
It was posted yesterday that AJ is not allowed on FR.
Any idea where (or why)? I’m not surprised, just curious.
AJ wuz PNG on FR for quite a few years.
My take is that he wuz correct ~50% of the time.
Given the LSM error rate of ~90%, InfoWarz was a decent source to consider.
I’m not a fan of Alex Jones. He’s a little “out there” for my taste.
But these so-called providers are acting as a cartel, and imposing their monopoly status and fixing prices.
For Alex Jones, the price for his access to these platforms is there is no price. We all are simply not going to do business with you. If one of them decided to ban him, fine. When they are acting in concert, that is a cartel.
What this bunch has done, is cut him off completely for non-conformity to their thought standards as the price of admission.
How is this NOT price fixing?
Alex Jones is a complete and utter nutbag. That said, he does have some good facts. Regardless his freedom to express his nutbaggery should be protected. And yes, I know this is not a First Amendment issue, but it is a moral one IMHO.
That’s what I thought.
What’s the difference between what You Tube not allowing Jones and Hannity or Limbaugh screening out certain callers or dumping them mid thought?
He’s right.
Nobody asked the tech giants to be our consciences.
He neglected to mention Alex Jones and https://infowars.com is still on the air, with quite good response time I might add.
They have not been censored at all.
“First they came for Alex Jones, and I did not speak, because the fluoruide in the water had left me in a docile, near vegetative state, easily controlled by the government”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1026500091639681024
“What this bunch has done, is cut him off completely”
He’s not cut off at all.
“It was posted yesterday that AJ is not allowed on FR.”
Been that way for more than a decade.
Jones made his name peddling leftist anti-American conspiracy theories.
Lol....I just posted this headline on an AJ thread, this morning.
He’s pretty crazy.
Jones still has his Infowars website. He is pretty safe to operate there.
I am not so obsessed with these social media platforms censoring, suspending, shadow banning and so on for political purposes. I don’t like it but I force myself to think like an engineer, like an analyst to understand the bigger picture and to possibly see where there may be agreements that make sense.
What I object to is the funding that allowed these platforms to grow so large, where it originated from, how it’s unfair to competitors.
Wall St. controls the markets by owning the controlling shares of markets. Any entrepreneur that gets big to compete against Wall St. is bought out and neutralized.
Any product, any popular brand is bought and controlled. Every corporate retail chain and a good portion of its suppliers are bought and controlled using Wall St. financial power.
And what is Wall St. and where does it get its money? It’s actually not real money, it’s electronic currency power, specifically, it is an electronic creation of something that acts like money. I’ll call it funny money. It’s not backed by anything. There are no laws on its supply. There are guidelines but no laws. Money supply measures have been ‘retired’ or hidden so that Wall St. has maximum power to channel and flow its funny money to purposes borne of its decision makers.
Wall St. is a conglomerate of banks, insurance companies, exchanges, fund managers, wealth and asset managers. The key players at the top are mostly known to each other. But the real core of Wall St. is the member banks of the NY Fed. These are Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of NY Mellon, US Bancorp, Morgan Stanley, and dozens more.
More than half of The S&P is driven by the biggest banks.
And where do these mega financial entities get their financial power?
From the relationships they have with the NY Fed which for all intents and purposes is the Fed. They are funded by Fed funny money often dubbed as ‘liquidity facilities’ and by many such names as to appear esoteric to the public.
How does this tie to the mega social media platforms? The money behind these social platforms came ultimately from the Fed through a hierarchy and network of relationships that act like a private club. In order to dominate the markets, Wall St. movers and shakers give the public ‘sugar’ as in sign up for free. The people creating free accounts for themselves become the ‘product’, their information and habits, mindsets, politics, are sold to marketing groups and to intel communities.
I have a grievance against mega social media platforms created as part of a club grown by funny money. Entrepreneurs who are not part of the club are denied access to capital to grow in the same space at the same rate.
Consider Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he’s worth about $70,000,000,000 in Wall St. funny money. He never earned it. He is a total fabrication by decision makers in the Wall St. ruling class. He is an insult to hardworking Americans everywhere.
But it’s not the funny money wrapper that Zuckerberg is carried in that is repugnant. We’re not jealous. He can have all the funny money he desires. If he sits back in an easy chair for the rest of his days and smokes his funny money, great! No one should care.
What is grating is he is directed to control the social media space and to play nice with other members of the club like Dorsey and to do all this to control us, to control our thinking, to control out boundaries, to control out consumer choices, to control the market which is us. And all of that control is made possible by Wall St. funny money.
This is what is so objectionable. There are millions of programmers more talented than Zuckerberg that could do what he does. He’s nothing special. He’s a made member, that is all. Made by doing what he’s told. Those who made him have access to creating funny money out of nothing. All the rest of us are denied that access. Wall St. individuals are nothing special. They have memberships to a private club that controls creation of funny money. They have no special talents. They simply are next to the computers that create funny money out of nothing and they make damn sure the door to those computers is slammed in our faces.
Our recourse is to be aware of how the game works and act as referees to throw Wall St. out for penalties, break them up with the Sherman Antitrust Act, to cause capitalization to reach competitors who will not form an oligarchy of colluding interests.
Imagine there was a social media competitor as large as Facebook that was willing to allow Alex Jones to create a business account, to monetize itself. “Hey Alex, you’re welcome to come over here and sell your vitamins and do your shows”. Why not? Why doesn’t this exist? Well, it does exist but it’s so small it doesn’t much matter. And if it ever started to get big, well it would be bought out. This is anti-competitive behavior. There are laws against this sort of thing.
Because certain Wall St. persons are next to funny money structure, they have an unfair advantage. They have no title, no authorization to create a funny money club for themselves. They are using financial power that was set in motion by a public law, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Because it’s a public law that they grabbed for themselves to make themselves powerful, we the public have the right to break them up because their behavior is not in step with the principles of the American founding. We want, require, demand, and deserve competition meaning equal footing when it comes to accessing financial power without having to join a union of oligarchs manifesting as a private wealth club.
The next step is to break up the social media monopolies and establish a competitive environment so that there will always be someplace else for consumers and business participants to go in case there are disagreements, political, personal, or otherwise.
I don’t have a problem with that. Its Jim’s site. Been like that long time.
When www.FreeRepublic.com is DENIED its domain name, you all will reconsider your support of censorship, just as Facebook cannot deny Latinos.
Being proactive, please post 5 backup donain names for when FreeRepublic is given over to a CNN snowflake.
List please!
domain = donain
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