printOn June 4, 2021, one of MSNBC’s egos in an anchor’s chair said this:
“Social media giant is cracking down on politicians and speech. But is it too little too late?”
I transcribed the statement verbatim but it is not easily found as a URL hyperlink.
This is how illiberal mainstream liberalism has become. And it raises no eyebrows. How dare the US pose as a free society?
My point here, however, is contrarian. Again and again you will hear conservatives, politicians and pundits, complain on Fox News about the calamitous censorship by Deep Tech, as if it’s a problem that began with the Biden Administration.
De-platforming (of a president, no less), banning of legions of powerless dissidents, including detrimental financial de platforming, “occurred in a country with a Republican President, a Republican-controlled Senate, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, and a majority of whose state legislatures and governors are Republican.”
Republican solutions—anti-trust busting or the repealing of Section 230, which they refused to do when they were in control of both houses, and the presidency, all bandied about shallowly on Fox News—do not begin to address de-platforming, cancellation of dissidents, including the infringement of the right to make a living. (See sub-section, “Flouting The Spirit Of Civil Rights.”)