Censorship

YouTube took down the video from the two California doctors contending that the continuous lockdown was exactly the wrong strategy to deal with the coronavirus ... see: Freedom of Speech. It seems that they could not allow any opinions that were counter to Dr. Fauci’s dicta.

Now, the Masters of the Universe (Twitter, Google’s YouTube, FaceBook) are once again censorng what they don’t want Americans to see ... this time a Nigerian doctor vehemently attesting that hydroxychloroquinine (HCQ) is an effective Covid treatment ... see: RT Video.

I realize that the Masters of the Universe are private companies and therefore can censor whatever they want. But, it would seem when they have achieved such monopolistic powers over their media highways, that some constraints should be applied to their plenary powers.

And besides, Trump should have used reverse-English ... and disparaged HCQ to begin with ... and it would therefore have become the standard treatment ... possibly saving thousands of lives. So, in a way, these deaths really were the truculent anti-Trump media’s fault in the end.

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Coronavirus live updates: Continuing U.S. unemployment claims fall, CVS expanding to 1,000 testing sites

Asymptomatic cases may be more common than suspected ...

President Trump will sign executive order on social media censorship

Violence again rocks Minneapolis after man’s death, 1 killed

Mark Zuckerberg says social networks should not be fact-cheking political speech

TX students set to return to school — next week!

Minneapolis rioters smash charter school storefronts

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Spike in South Korea virus cases shows perils of reopening ...

Pence: U.S. will not tolerate big tech censorship of conservatives

Fauci says he wears mask as ‘symbol’ of good behavior

Dr. Anthony Fauci says second wave of coronavirus is ‘not inevitable’

Average American has packed on 5 pounds during lockdown ...

Homeless deaths rise in SF during lockdown, but not due to coronavirus

Trump threatens to shutter social media companies over alleged election interference

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DOJ drops insider trading probes for 3 Senators ...

Twitter brands Trump’s vote-by-mail post with fact-check, citing CNN

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DeSantis: [Dorian] ‘perilously close’ to FL ...

Exclusive — Devin Nunes: ‘Evidence is there’ for U.S. Attorney to file criminal conspiracy charges against James Comey

Boris Johnson says he won’t ask for a Brexit extension

China lodges a tariff case against the US at the WTO

Texas killer called police before mass shooting began ... Was fired from job ...

Devin Nunes warns Americans against ‘tech oligarhs’ censorship

London mayor mocks Trump for dealing with the hurricane ‘out on the golf course’

Britain prepares for showdown as opposition lawmakers try to stop no-deal Brexit

Trump Labor Day Rasmussen [poll]: 45% ...

Comey: Trump too narcissistic to focus on mass shootings, hurricanes

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Mueller recommends sentence up to 6 months for Papadopoulus

US, China plot roadmap for Trump, Xi meeting to resolve trade dispute, WSJ

TURLEY: [Manafort] Conviction will add little to the investigation ...

Populist Swedish leader doubles down on leaving E.U?

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan does at 80

White House's Kudlow says China is 'terrible', numbers paint a murkier picture

New CA bill to mandate only milk, water with kids' meals ...

CNN: ANYIFA,s violence against 'bigots' is 'right'

'We won't let that happen' Trump alleges social media censorship of conservatives

A choked up Elon Musk says his health is terrible and he believes 'the worst is yet to come'

SAfrican land seizures: Terrified farmers plot escape ...

Honeymoon over: Ocasio-Cortez blocks press access to campaign event

Too Big Tech?

I have been holding off on this posting until Zeckerberg testified in front of  Congress and, to an extent I feel inadequate to blanket all the issues that are raised by Big Tech. In fact the effects that Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, Snapchat, etc. are having on our societies deserve a huge book. Don't look to me, dear readers, for such a treatment. I will just scratch here where I am now itching ... censorship, monopolistic power and privacy issues.

One thing that bothers me a lot is how Bug Tech is censoring free speech. Diamond and Silk had been kicked off of Facebook, the Diplomad can no longer tweet. Hundreds of conservatives have been shadow-banned on Facebook. Google searches are directed based on politician considerations ... and I'm sure there are thousands of other examples on Instagram, reddit, YouTube, etc., etc. Because many terrorist attacks have been coordinated on social media, this is as a deflection excuse for this increase in censorship of political thought.

"Opt Out" button is, I'm my opinion, the answer to the privacy issue on social media ... even if users then have to pay to do so. Hitting this button would and should erase all possibility of your private data being used for any purpose beyond what you explicitly designate. This is the new European regulation. The U.S. should quickly adopt it. Full stop.

It is staggering the degree of economic control that Big Tech has over our lives ... many say equivalent to how the big trusts controlled things at the beginning of the last century. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google each has a monopolistic stranglehold on their respective markets and there are growing number of pundits that think they should be broken up ... see: Seattle Times Article.

All in all, this triple whammy of political and economic power combined with the shredding of our First Amendment are reason enough to look closely at applying remedies to Big Tech. It may take new blood in Congress to do it however, because too few of the current old members seem capable of understanding what is happening ... unfortunately.

Censorship on Social Media

Is that Diplomad driving the little red convertible? He, among many others, has been shadowbanned on Twitter.