I think many people now call the American society the “Cancel Culture.” This is where I insert, “I told you so.” The Internet was once a place where anyone could go for just about any reason at all. In particular tens of thousands of people found it a place to go and share their thoughts, ideas, research, etc. I am one of them.
I one day decided that what I was studying and learning was information I thought some people might find valuable. As a matter of fact, I believe that much of my work (on the Internet) laid the ground work for a relatively large group of activists who wanted to protect the American Heritage of hunting, fishing, land access, etc. In particular, I spent a great deal of time studying, researching and communicating with so many experts about the grey wolf.
Enough of a lousy attempt to toot my own horn. The truth is, the ability for anybody to do this same thing today is over. We are all witness to the efforts of most, so-called, social media platforms, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube/Google and others I don’t even know exist, that have censored comments and full channels and accounts, banning users and those who once had the freedom to exercise their First Amendment privileges.
Because the efforts of these major social media owner’s to ban and censor anyone they don’t like have gone unchallenged, balls have gotten bigger and now the talk is to not only allow such censoring, but to expand it into areas once thought would never happen in a country such as the United States.
The talk involves controlling/banning anyone on social and media platforms (in other words EVERYWHERE Online) who dares to challenge the official narratives of such things as Climate Change, COVID, ruling political parties, elections, and whatever the Above Ground Serpent Race deems is a challenge in any way to their dominance of all things.
And while some of us are aghast at this direct gagging (putting the boot to the neck, as Barack (Insane) Obama once told his True Believer followers), more indirect and yet equally effective tools are being discussed as ways of preventing anyone from having a platform to challenge the Global Power Structure. These tools will include the requirement of anybody who wants to have any kind of channel, i.e. Youtube, Facebook, as well as bloggers and all other “alternative” news/media, to purchase licensing agreements from musicians, actors, journalists, news outlets, etc….and don’t think this will not include anything and everything that people like myself and millions of others use and/or reference in our work to provide others with alternative information/data, links to other, mostly major, news sources.
The ability of people to exercise their privilege to speak up is now gone. Notice I have called free speech a privilege and not a right. It hasn’t been a right in many, many years. This cancel culture (part of the efforts of the Above Ground Serpent Race) deems this kind of censorship and control necessary in order that they are the only ones pulling all the mind manipulation and propagandizing strings. Once it was considered important and part of an intelligent and open society to allow opposing thoughts, ideas, ideology, as a way of providing information so that intelligent people could make informed decisions. That is no longer permissible. Whoever or whatever is in charge puts their boot to the necks of anyone who dare speak out against them. Unfortunately these boots are now coming in the form of broad censorship with controlled media.
Haven’t we seen this kind of censorship and media control in other societies that ended in disaster? Evidently, that part of history has been torn down along with the statues, flags, and history books.
So, it’s over. I have no idea how much longer I and thousands of others who dare speak outside of the official talking points will be allowed to continue. If you have a favorite alternative news and information site, you might want to save those tender morsels you find of value because soon they will no longer be available…only government controlled information will be meted out on a need-to-know basis. I assume “THEY” will start with the bigger sites eventually whittling their way down to little ole me.
Progress????? Hmmm!
