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Over the past few years, it’s been common to hear defenders of social media censorship retort to those who complain about, “Twitter is a private company, and they can ban whom they want. If you don’t like it, go start your own Twitter!”
One interesting aspect of this argument is that those who made it generally were individuals who were not known to respect laissez-faire capitalism or private property. In fact, they tended to be socialists of one stripe or another.
Those who complained about the censorship, generally those people who tended to favor political and economic liberty, then were wrongfooted. Either they felt they had to call for government regulation of social media, which contradicted their free market principles or to make charges that the government was behind the censorship, at which point they’d be called “conspiracy theorists.”
“Conspiracy theorist” is one of those terms that seemingly everyone wants to avoid. “I’m by no means a conspiracy theorist,” is a common turn of phrase people will use when they’re about to introduce an idea that sounds like a conspiracy theory. It’s as if to believe in conspiracies is the very height of ignorance, and that one must deny conspiracies exist if he wants to remain a member of society in good standing.
But conspiracies do exist and are even recognized in criminal law. In many Western nations, one can be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. In the Bible, we find many conspiracies. When Absalom sought to overthrow David, his plot was rightly described in the King James Bible as a conspiracy. Twice, the Apostle Paul found himself the object of conspiracies to kill him. The arrest and crucifixion of Christ was the culmination of a three-year-long conspiracy by the Jewish religious leaders to get rid of the man they perceived, rightly, as a threat to their power. Doubtless, other examples of conspiracies can be found in the Bible, but these should be sufficient to make the point that conspiracies are not a figment of the imagination, but a documented historical reality.
If he has done nothing else, Elon Musk has exposed for all the world to see that the “conspiracy theorists” were right. As the Twitter Files have revealed, the government was deeply involved in the social media censorship business. Not that there was any lack of evidence of this previously. For example, the New York Post ran a headline on July 15, 2021, that read, “White House ‘flagging’ posts for Facebook to censor over COVID ‘misinformation.’” The Independent ran a piece on February 3, 2022, with the headline, “White House urges Spotify to take further action on Joe Rogan: “More can be done.’” Why did the White House want Spotify to censor Joe Rogan? It was due to the popular podcaster’s explosive interview with Dr. Robert Malone, who among other things, called the hysteria over Covid an example of “mass formation psychosis.”
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Anthony Fouci, Bill Gates, Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theory, Coronavirus, Federal Reserve, Globalism, Internet Censorship, Social Media Censorship, Vaccines on May 3, 2020| 2 Comments »
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks at a White House press briefing.
The so-called corona virus (CV) pandemic has taken the world by storm. Like many people, this author had never so much as heard the term “corona virus” until about three or four months ago. But writing now in early May 2020, it seems as if it’s been with us forever.
One of the barriers to thinking clearly about the CV pandemic and resulting lock down of the economy was the remarkable speed at which it all occurred. It seemed that one day all was well, and the next that governors across the country were ordering their citizens to “shelter in place.” It was almost as if the entire nation were sucker punched at once. One day we were going about our business, working our jobs as we always had, and the next we were working from home or not working at all. Who could ever have imagined such a thing as recently as the beginning of this year?
The official narrative is that the virus is an unexpected event, originating in China. Despite the Chinese leadership’s heroic efforts to contain it, the virus managed to spread throughout all the world. Here in the US, Anthony Fauci is officially hailed as a hero and governors who locked down their states are thought to have taken bold action to save the nation from an even higher death count than has been reported. They are heroes. And the more severely they locked down their states, the more heroic they are.
Although the rapidity at which the crisis emerged and my unfamiliarity with pandemics made analysis difficult at first, the whole CV pandemic always seemed more than a bit suspect to me. And the longer it has gone on and the more information that has come out, the more my original suspicions have been confirmed. Below are thirteen reasons why I doubt CV narrative.
Posted in Politics, tagged Alex Jones, Deep State, Free Speech, Internet Censorship, Western Civilization on September 16, 2018| 3 Comments »
Writing in his History of Protestantism, J.A. Wylie introduces his readers to a 12th century reformer by the name of Arnold of Brescia. According to Wylie,
Arnold took his stand in the streets of his native Brescia, and began to thunder forth his scheme of reform. His townsmen gathered around him. For spiritual Christianity, the men of that age had little value, but Arnold had touched a chord in their hearts…the suddenness and boldness of the assault seem to have stunned the ecclesiastical authorities; and it was not until the Bishop of Brescia found his entire flock, deserting the cathedral, and assembling daily in the marketplace, crowding round the eloquent preacher, and listening to his fierce sermons, that he bestirred himself to silence the courageous monk…Arnold was seized, sent to Rome under a strong escort, and burned alive (Except taken from Ryan Denton’s Christ in the Wild Facebook page).
For Protestants unfamiliar with Rome’s long history of torturing and murdering anyone who stands against the ambitions of its prelates, this quote probably comes as something a shock. But for Rome, its treatment of Arnold of Brecia was business as usual.
Now the reader may be asking himself why I’ve elected to begin this installment on the activities of the Tech Left with an historical account straight out of the middle ages. What has this account to do with our current day Silicon Valley censors?
Hopefully the connection between Rome’s actions against Arnold of Brescia and the activities of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Apple aren’t too hard to see. For both the medieval Roman Church-State and the current day tech masters of the universe have this in common: They both seek to enforce the existing political, economic and social order by snuffing out the voices of anyone who dares challenge received opinion.
In truth, there’s little difference between the medieval Church of Rome and our present day techno tyrants. Yes, what Rome did was worse in that they physically arrested Arnold and brutally murdered him. At least for now, the Tech Left merely deletes your YouTube channel and bans you from Twitter.
But while no one currently is being burned alive, at least in the West, for writing a blog post challenging the Establishment opinion, Arnold of Brescia’s brutal execution serves as a stark reminder of why the preservation of free speech is so important, of why the framers of our Constitution prohibited Congress from infringing upon this right in the First Amendment, and of what could happen in the future if Americans, and in particular Christians, look the other way and remain silent while the Deep State, through its Big Tech proxies, attacks the free speech rights of conservatives, libertarians, and even progressives, who challenge the worldview put forth by the corporate media.
In last week’s installment, I discussed what Christians should not do in response to the Big Tech crack down on free speech. We should not:
Today in what I intend to be the final installment of this series, I would like to discuss what Christians should do about the Deep State’s use of Big Tech to regain control of the narrative – when I speak of controlling the narrative, I mean by this the ability to provide the context that gives meaning to current events; as John Robbins has noted, events do not explain themselves, but themselves must be explained; by its ability to provide the context, the interpretive framework, the narrative through which the public views political, social and economic issues, the mainstream media has proven to be a powerful tool in the hands of elite interests which they use to further their own agenda by controlling what people think.
For probably the first time in my life, the mainstream media, and by extension the elite interests who run it, lost narrative control during the run up to the 2016 Presidential election. The result was President Trump. By seeking to shut down down independent journalists and pundits, especially those with large audiences who write and speak on the big social media platforms, the elite are attempting to regain control of the narrative, and thus their ability to control the public’s worldview.
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