Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment
Twitter permanently banned the libertarian financial website Zero Hedge from the platform on Friday—January 31st after it published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus.
" In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell
With Big Tech controlling speech online, banks refusing to serve gunmakers, and the surveillance of consumer data – corporate America dominates political discourse and deplatforms anyone who opposes them. Would our Founding Fathers have let this happen? No way. As the Overton Window closes in tighter, the more necessary it becomes for everyone to voice dissent, even in support of things we disagree with.
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Twitter also banned me for liking Star Wars.
While I fully support decentralized platforms and think the behavior of big social media companies is pretty horrible, I don't see it as a second (or first) amendment issue. You are free to speak here and many other places. No private company is obligated to provide you a platform to speak or are restricted for expressing their views, no matter how big they are.
To me, to suggest Constitutional violations of any sort is to invite government intervention which is not the way this should go in my opinion.
I don't even really have a problem with credit card companies refusing to do business with...whoever. Or at least I don't have a problem with it in the sense that I think the government should do something about it. As long as government isn't using force to cause it to happen anyway. My solution would be to use cash. Now if the government is limiting cash transactions in some way then that's another story.
It's not that I really disagree with anything here, it's just that I think we have to be careful it is expressed in such a way that we aren't trying to get government to be more involved, even on "our side", other than by removing existing regulations. Big business shouldn't be forced to do business with anyone in other words. But calling them out for the pricks they are? Sure.
Twitter banned James Okeefe. What a wonderful demonstration in Virginia.