A situation I’ve been monitoring has given me pause enough, and concern enough, that I felt it warranted its own article. That situation is the climate of the internet.
What do I mean by climate of the internet? I am referring primarily to the ability to freely share information and ideas, as well as, be able to spread them to a wide audience. This is incredibly important with regards to free speech, something the Founding Fathers felt greatly on and even our Confederacy, to the point of including it in their constitution.
Tyranny, authoritarianism, and censorship against your people is obviously a very bad thing. But, make no mistake, that is what all of this shift in the internet climate is heading towards. More specifically, it is against genuine rightwing dissidents, of almost all flavors, because those in power do not want new ideas (good or bad) introduced to the public. That, after all, would threaten their power and they can’t have that. So, the status quo must be maintained until the political climate has been fully and completely shifted in favor of the Left. In order to do so, they need to give the appearance this is not actually happening. Everything must appear stable.
That is why Conservative, Inc. exists.
If it’s one thing the Alt-Right did successfully, it was to influence, or create, the spark for the America First movement – a movement that is gaining traction and threatening the authorized “conservative” establishment (the neoliberal gatekeepers of the Right). This is why algorithms have been changed, why shadow banning is occurring, and why deplatforming is happening. A free internet threatens the very nature of the neoliberal machine, an entity that, ultimately, runs the show. If anything, we should be thankful that we even have the internet because it’s given us a fighting chance. However, the internet is under a severe threat this very minute.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all of these other tech giant monopolies are clamping down hard and doing exactly what they said they were going to do. If you haven’t seen the Project Veritas video on this, I insist you do so right away. Nothing I can say or impress upon you will do a better job than hearing it straight from the horse’s mouth. And, don’t tell me this isn’t happening either, if you believe otherwise you are willfully ignorant or simply not paying attention.
Monopolies are a dangerous thing. In fact, they are so dangerous that there is a law against them. You may be familiar with this law, it’s the 1890 Sherman Anti Trust act. The problem with this is it applies to businesses in the traditional sense, not the internet. The internet is not really a physical, tangible thing, unless you count server farms and facilities. As such, companies like Google have managed to get away with what they’ve become – massive monopolies.
Companies like Google, Facebook, and others buy out competitors or shut them out of the market by limiting or eliminating their exposure. This is literally what monopolies do to other businesses. One of the biggest reasons to regulate monopolies, and outlaw them, is to prevent one single entity from being able to either directly rival, take over, or eliminate the government or the marketplace. In essence, they become a state within a state. In turn, they’re able to trample on the rights of the citizenry, restrict access to goods and services, engage in unethical behavior (including antitrust), price gouge, and other detrimental conduct.
By monopolizing, and then controlling, the internet, these companies gain de facto control over the general population’s free speech. As such, if free ideas (again, both good or bad) are to exist, (1) the internet must remain unregulated and (2) Big Tech must be broken up. Both points would prohibit companies, like Google and YouTube, to selectively prevent access to content. There are arguments to be made against restricting some content like porn. Don’t confuse this for some libertarian piece advocating that porn should be readily accessible to anyone. I don’t think it should even be available, but that’s me.
In short, as the title of this article states, there are no brakes on this train. My prediction is things are only going to get worse. The fist will tighten even more. And, I can’t highlight how important it is something be done before it truly is too late and free thinking individuals are robbed of one of the most powerful tools of freedom to ever be invented – the internet.
God bless you and God bless Dixie.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
This site is blatantly clear in its purpose and content. It does not represent itself as a “platform” as Google, Facebook and others do. This site falls under the category of a publisher and as such is free to dictate its content and what goes on it.
Companies that make the claim or file for platform status by law receive immunity from lawsuits from content on their site. As such they must by law also allow all content and cannot selectively promote or suppress content. This is why you can’t sue your phone provider if someone uses their service to plot harm against you for example.
Currently companies like Google and Facebook receive this protection under the promise that they will act like a platform and not a publisher. They are acting as publishers therefor are in violation of this law and therefor should have their protective status revoked. In addition to that they are monopolies at this point in time just as Standard Oil (the company that was responsible for the need of the Sherman Anti Trust act) was back in the day.
To address your point of an echo chamber for “global messianic monarchy” you clearly have not read, listened, or consumed enough of our content to know anything about us or make any such outlandishly outrageous claims that have no factual grounding in reality.
We are quite clear about who we are and what we stand for. You on the other hand are an unknown instigator here to stir trouble. My question for you is if you truly believe what you said then why are you even here or was it simply a drive by comment meant to troll?
Excellent reply, Otto.