Mike Adams of naturalnews and real.video was on the Alex Jones show last week, talking about the social media censorship issue. Alex Jones and InfoWars were censored and banned from many sites a few weeks ago, including Facebook, YouTube and Spotify, in case you didn't know.
The way they see it, is that Google and other companies are aligning with China and their authoritarian policies to control free speech of their citizenry, and will be bringing that methodology into the Western tech world.
Mike Adams foresees a censorship tyranny role-out in America, where big tech companies develop and test out censorship technology in China, that will eventually be brought to the West. He says it won't be long before the Google's Chrome browser and Mozilla's Firefox will block users from being able to view certain sites, such as independent alternative media sites like infowars or naturalnews.
The next step for greater tyranny and control of free speech online would be to seize domains of the independent media sites, shutting them down and silencing their voice for good. The final step would be for big tech to bring in China's Social Credit System as a Global Social Score to block anyone they want, only allowing those with an internet ID to have access online.
If this happens, it will indeed be a dark age for mankind, with little privacy or rights compared to what we have now. Chinese citizens are apparently in a "toilet revolution", because one of the only places they can freely write is on the walls of toilets.
These potentialities are a real threat. But what's troubling with the position of Mike Adams and Alex Jones, is that they are being fooled into asking them government to regulate social media to ensure an "internet bill of rights and free speech".
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Alex Jones said:
"How do we get congress to understand [that] their inaction on regulating the internet for internet bill of rights and free speech is allowing the EU and China to come in to fill the vacuum... It's a national security issue."
The fear of losing internet freedom and being relegated to writing on toilet room walls has these two alternative media icons calling for government regulation to save us from the evils of big tech. But they forget about the evils of big government who wouldn't have much issue in regulating the freedom of society by employing the same means, and themselves copying the methodologies being employed in communist China.
Mike Adams and Alex Jones both are supporters President Trump, and MIke Adams specifically mentioned the need for the President to get involved:
This is what it's coming to. Again, this has to be stopped. These tech giants will not voluntarily stop their censorship. The president and congress is going to have to get involved and take some decisive action. If they don't, we lose any last remnants of the First Amendment in America.
What this ensures, is that government will be able to create "laws" to legally mandate control over social media, and therefore legalize censorship. It's better when these enterprises are doing it on their own, without legal force and violence behind them to authorize their actions. In a free market with causal forces, if people want to be responsible and care about what is happening, they can all leave these censorship platforms and go to more freedom-friendly platforms. It's up to us, the people, to choose what tools we use and where we go.
If people like Alex Jones and Mike Adams get their way, it will actually bring us closer to authoritarian tyranny imposed by the state like in China. They say they fear tech giants aiding China to bring those tyrannical models to America, but seem to be begging the government to take control. This will risk their fears becoming an even greater reality than if they tech giants are left to their own devices.
The real path forward to ensure more freedom online is for people to change their behaviors and show their disapproval by no longer supporting the social media tech giants who engage in this censorship and control of the independent alternative media and anyone else. Begging the government to control social media will likely end up creating a bigger problem than we have now. We need to take power back and connect elsewhere if the existing avenues are leading us to further control and loss of freedom.
We're being played. But, who are the ones doing it? The tech giants that create the problem, and certain politicians that propose the regulation "solution" are part of the issue for sure. Are these alternative media icons "shills" or "agents" as some claim? Or are they merely being duped as pawns in a game to create a problem that begs people to demand a solution?
I wonder if the independent media who are asking for this would like to have the same done to them. Would they like to have government regulate them and tell them who they can or can't allow on their sites? I don't think so. They aren't thinking straight in their emotional state of being censored or fear of future censorship.
Fear can get the best of people. The demand for someone/something (government) to solve this censorship problem might have them falling for a con game being played on them and everyone else to establish control over the internet and free speech. Whatever is really happening and who are all the players willfully orchestrating or participating in this conspiracy might be in question, but what can be said with greater certainty is that many people are falling for this problem-reaction-solution con game.
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