Busy lately, so I’ll get right to the point. Given that my subscriber count didn’t increase at all from my big announcement that I was open to running for President of the United States, I’m not going to make the campaign a daily effort. It turns out that I don’t know how to write a short blog post. What should have been a sentence or two at most about anti-trust legislation to break up the monopolies currently enjoyed by our modern free speech censors in control of social media.
PLATFORM PLANK #2: Break up the big tech monopolies, so they can no longer censor and suppress free speech.
Jeff Bezos owns Amazon. Sure, other people own stock in Amazon, but Bezos has acquired unbelievable power through his control of the company. He also owns Amazon Web Services, and The Washington Post. With his virtually unbridled power, he silenced millions of America with the snap of a finger, when he de-platformed Parler.
Mark Zuckerberg interfered with the 2020 election by censoring free speech on his platform. Truth was suppressed and lies were promoted. Even worse, the lies were given the cover of claiming to be “fact-checked.” It’s bad enough that Zuckerberg has total control of Facebook, given the power and market dominance that application has, but then consider that Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp among the astonishing number of independent companies that behemoth has acquired and absorbed over the years.
Equally powerful (meaning much too powerful) is Alphabet corporation, the parent company for Google and Youtube. Google is known to bury information they don’t want the general public to see way down in the search results where most people won’t find them to the point of absurdity. Certain (conservative) websites can be searched for specifically by name, and yet somehow don’t even show up on the first page of search results. The critics of the website typically do, however. Youtube is even worse–they often demonetize or even remove channels that produce conservative content.
As President of the United States, on my first day in office I would find out who was behind forcing a website like American Thinker to remove the ability to comment on published articles and force readers to visit an alternate forum on the MeWe website in order to simply express an opinion! I write for American Thinker sometimes, and some nefarious corporation with WAY too much power over private free speech has the editors so frightened they won’t even tell me privately who threatened to put them out of business and shut down the website permanently.
I would force Jeff Bezos to sell The Washington Post. I would force Alphabet to sell Youtube or Google, take your pick. Can’t have both. I can’t say what the full set of necessary changes would be in terms of emasculating Big Tech to rob them of the power they currently wield over small entrepreneurs and independent thinkers. I have been shadow-banned. I have been censored, and worse. I’ve had “official” lies given precedence over the truth I had personally uncovered and shared.
Fact-checkers are a joke. They are liars and manipulators. The only fact-checker you should trust is yourself. The powers-that-be in control of big tech are feeding you manure and telling us that we have mushrooms for brains, so we’ll thrive on that diet. They have built a complex and comprehensive system to manage information that enabled just a few people to have almost total control of what the majority of society are allowed to say.
When AT&T had a stranglehold on telecommunications, the federal government broke up the monopoly and made them sell Bell South. Before the advent of cell phones, you couldn’t place a phone call without AT&T making a profit off of it. After the anti-trust breakup, the consumer had choices that lowered the cost. But think about the old days for a minute, and imagine what it would have been like if an operator had listened to your conversation and then “error corrected” something you’d said on the call? Nobody would have allowed a private company to do that for a second.
So, why are we letting Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Jack Dorsey tell us what we can and cannot say? Are we going to stand up for ourselves, or continue to let them bully us like we’re mindless sheep. Are you a lamb ripe for slaughter, ready to be butchered into chops? I say not just no, but hell no!
If you want to see more common sense political campaigning like this, subscribe to my website and share the link with friends you think might agree with these ideas. Motivate me to keep up the research and writing. Here’s the deal–the free speech mafia are currently getting away with it because they have immunity from the federal government. If somebody doesn’t speak up, it will only get worse. However, nobody can do this alone.
Trump would fix this problem, now that he understands what he’s been up against. And it’s in my platform as plank #2, meaning my second highest priority. Taxes will be my next issue. The more people who subscribe to my website, the quicker I’ll be writing about it. I know people respond to videos better than the written word these days, so if I don’t get a number of new subscribers to my free posts (which tend to be all of them because I forget to put the little qualified on them, usually) I’ll know why: my audience has a short attention span and serious lack of motivation.
Yes. It will be your fault, due to your apathy. This isn’t about me. It’s the ideas that matter.
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