Only one or two years ago, we in the U.S. found it incredible that Chinese citizens could not find references to “tank man” when they searched the internet. We couldn’t imagine living in such a country. How could it be that the government, in coordination with tech companies, could completely remove the ability of its citizens to find certain information? In this, the “information age”?

But just like that, we’re there. The big tech monopolies Apple, Google and now Amazon are censuring and removing access to information they don’t agree with and groups that might threaten their hold on power. It started slowly some years ago with YouTube ‘demonetizing’ channels but now the censuring grows exponentially. This week it’s this group, next week it’s that. Maybe you are against ownership of firearms by ordinary citizens so you are ok with web sites where firearms are discussed or even bought and sold legally being removed from one platform and being unable to find another hosting provider. Maybe you don’t like people discussing the deals made between the Biden family and countries who are a national threat to the U.S. and you are ok with sites removing access to any such information. Maybe you don’t like people presenting information to the public about the claimed illegal activity that occurred in the 2020 general election. But make no mistake: if you empower them, anyone will be able to occupy the chair they are in now and one day they will come for you and any discussion of what you believe is important. Further, on the off chance that any of these people, like those who initially claimed the Earth was round and were mocked, turn out to be right, you will have done yourself a grave disservice by removing your own access to their information. It’s a form of slow suicide.

No one who is confident in their knowledge or position, would ever feel the need to silence dissenting voices. They would welcome it, knowing that they possess superior arguments. Only the weak, who know they probably can't win an argument, will seek to silence dissent.

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No one who has studied history will find censorship novel; every Marxist revolution in history has employed the control and limiting of information as one of its key tactics, as an informed populace will never accept communism. But they may find it surprising that it has happened here, in the last bastion of freedom, in what was designed to be, and was, the freest country in the world. A place people would risk their lives to get to, for the freedom and opportunity they so longed for. And they might be surprised at the number of people who failed to learn about history and are supportive of censorship because those currently wielding it align with their beliefs. “Useful idiots,” who do not comprehend that at some point they will be the target if power like this is allowed to exist and be used by anyone.

The tech giants all made their wealth by way of free market “capitalism,” but are now in bed with the communists who would remove the ladder and the spectrum of states of being it provides and replace it with the two-tiered system that communism brings where a small group become incredibly wealthy and all others sink into poverty, servitude, disease, desperation, darkness and death. They think that by joining forces with the Marxists they will be protected, that they and their friends and families will be able to keep their status while they prevent anyone from competing with them. But Marxism leads only to one place: where the wealth stops being created, and is divided again and again as it grows smaller and smaller, and the group with the power becomes smaller and smaller and more and more vicious until it consists of just one person who literally decides who lives and who dies. This is where North Korea is today. If we allow anyone to censure and remove information from public access, we move closer to that nightmare at an increasingly breakneck pace. There is a point of no return, and when information can be controlled and removed by any person or group, that point is crossed. We are on the edge now. No one person or group of people acting in coordination should have the power to remove access to information. If it were just one publisher and a reader could get their “book” from another, then it is the right of the publisher to refuse to publish a given book. But when one company controls the vast majority of what people are able to see, and worse when the tech companies act in coordination as they now do in order to control not just the vast majority but effectively all of the information, it is a matter of national security that they be broken up so as to remove their ability to do this.

This applies to you, U.S. Senators and Representatives. You have a critical task before you: break up big tech and remove their ability to remove access to information. We did this with the services provided by railroads, and with the oil and phone companies last century but this was done in a time when people had access to information and were aware of the state they were in and what needed to be done. The forces of evil who would protect their comfort and power at the cost of the Nation’s future are so much bigger, so much faster and so much more lethal than they were then. If you don’t do it now, the people won’t even know that they have fallen under the control of a sinister power they cannot see and won't be able to remember a time when it wasn’t so. They won't even know that there was such a time.


--Henry Lee

Post Date: 2021-01-21 07:50:02

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