Banning the President from Twitter — should Big Tech really be telling us what to think and say?

© 2021 Peter Free

 

10 January 2021

 

 

Lie back and enjoy censorship?

 

Big Tech is controlling speech in the United States. It has even banned President Trump from Twitter.

 

Evidently the Tech Establishment gets to tell Americans what they can and cannot say.

 

If one does not comply with Corporate Tech's arbitrarily imposed restrictions, one's lips are zipped.

 

 

Doesn't that seem societally dangerous?

 

Most of the United States seems to miss the core point to the First Amendment's implications about the scope of a genuinely free society.

 

Today, we are in the process of substituting unrestrained Corporatism's enslaving rampages for formerly constitutionally constrained Government.

 

Not only can Big Tech prevent people from speaking, Big Business can fire people for saying things that America's Oligarchs do not like.

 

From We the People's perspective, I see no benefit — and lots of harm — to permitting these changes in the (alleged) Republic's ability to function.

 

 

The moral? — Dictatorial self-righteousness is drowning the United States' . . .

 

. . . once reasonably firm grip on speaking one's mind.

 

We are on course to emulate exactly the worst aspects of the People's Republic of China. Social credits anyone?

 

Wake up.