“They came first for the communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t communist
Then they came for the Jews
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionist,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then the came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

Martin Niemöller, a German pastor recounting the German Holocaust.

The purge has started and it is big tech that is dropping the hammer.

 

Time to Join Parler

Twitter announced on Friday afternoon that they have banned President Donald Trump from using their platform due to “risk of further incitement of violence.”

Twitter stated:

This determination is based on a number of factors, including:

• President Trump’s statement that he will not be attending the Inauguration is being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election was not legitimate and is seen as him disavowing his previous claim made via two Tweets (1, 2) by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Dan Scavino, that there would be an “orderly transition” on January 20th.
• The second Tweet may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending.
• The use of the words “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol.
• The mention of his supporters having a “GIANT VOICE long into the future” and that “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” is being interpreted as further indication that President Trump does not plan to facilitate an “orderly transition” and instead that he plans to continue to support, empower, and shield those who believe he won the election.
• Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.

As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.

Trump responded, saying:

“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me—and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me.”

“Twitter may be a private company, but without the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long.”

“I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED!”

“Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely,” Trump continued. “STAY TUNED!”

What crap. What Twitter is doing is not reading the words, for the are not violet or inciteful but are interpreting the words and forming them so they can be construed as violent and inciteful. I also must add that this is a hell of a stretch.

I find it amazing that the social media platforms continue to allow the leaders of Iran, China and Russia use their services and have no trouble with the incitement by Left wing hacks, who actually do say things to incite violence, but they will ban the President of the United States because he doesn’t want to go to the Inauguration.

By the way, did Twitter ban all the Democrats who said they weren’t going to Trump’s Inauguration or piss on them when Left wing protestors did get violent outside the grounds of the Inauguration?

This is just the beginning. We knew it would happen especially when the Democrats took the government. Big tech was going to do whatever the Democrats want.  Republicans could have stopped this but they didn’t. Now the shit sandwich is ready and we are all going to have to take a bite.

By the way, Twitter isn’t the only one banning Trump. So is Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok (which is a Chinese company), Reddit,

https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-permanently-bans-trump-from-platform
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-gets-around-twitters-ban-on-his-personal-account-tweets-about-big-announcement
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-responds-to-twitter-account-suspension_3649738.html

 

What?! They See a Problem with This?

The ACLU released a statement on Friday taking a shot at Trump before suggesting that minorities would end up being affected by Big Tech’s policies surrounding censorship.

“For months, President Trump has been using social media platforms to seed doubt about the results of the election and to undermine the will of voters. We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions – especially when political realities make those decisions easier. President Trump can turn to his press team or Fox News to communicate with the public, but others – like the many Black, Brown, and LGBTQ activists who have been censored by social media companies – will not have that luxury. It is our hope that these companies will apply their rules transparently to everyone.”

This is good. The ACLU is not a friend to the President or Conservatives and I have never cared for the, but the have always been for free speech until about two years ago. This was a group that defended a neo-Nazi group’s right to march in the south. A couple of years ago, they went full Left wing and would not defend Conservative principles anymore. But, seeing what is happening in social media, they are a little afraid of what could happen if the tech tyrants start getting rid of people with some BS and vague rules and policies. And it’s all being done to one side.

Even the Left leaning ACLU thinks this is dangerous.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/aclu-worries-about-social-medias-unchecked-power-to-remove-people-from-platforms-after-twitter-facebook-ban-trump

 

Did I say, “Time to Join Parler”?

Parler is a social network site much like Twitter. The difference is they allow for free speech and will not suspend people for saying controversial things like men can’t be women and stuff like this (I was suspended for “dead naming” on Twitter already). Parler is seen as an alternative site for Conservatives afraid of getting banned or suspended by Twitter because of their views.

Megacompany Apple is threatening to remove social networking service Parler from its App Store unless the company starts moderating its platform more harshly.

“We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 that led (among other things) to loss of life, numerous injuries, and the destruction of property,” Apple wrote in the letter. “The app also appears to continue to be used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.”

Apple then made its threat, “to ensure there is no interruption of the availability of your app on the App Store,” demanding Parler update its app and submit to Apple a “requested moderation improvement plan within 24 hours of the date of the message.”

Parler CEO John Matze said:

“We will not cave to pressure from anti-competitive actors! We will and always have enforced our rules against violence and illegal activity. But we WONT cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!”

“Anyone who buys an Apple phone is apparently a user. Apperently [sic] they know what is best for you by telling you which apps you may and may not use.”

Google has already removed the app from the Google Store. By the way, Trump does not, as of yet have an account on Parler so they are just attacking them because they won’t go along with Apple’s and Google’s terms of use.

By the way, I’ll just mention this again: Apple produces the iPhone, iPad and Mac Books in China using slave wages that is supported by the communist government then, sell you their product for a 1000x over production value. Yeah, I don’t think Apple has the moral high ground.

Google was working with the Chinese government to limit what people could see or search and has been working with them in creating a surveillance system so they can monitor their systems.

But it’s gotten worse. Amazon was hosting Parler on their AWS platforms. They gave Parlet 24 hours to come up with some sort of moderation standards. Parler didn’t and Amazon shut them down. To this moment, Parler is still down.

That is scary. That someone’s business can be blackballed like that. But it is happening today. Parler is suing and they will probably win but it’ll take years.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-threatens-parler-moderate-or-youre-out
https://www.theepochtimes.com/parler-ceo-says-prepared-to-take-full-legal-action-after-big-tech-companies-target-platform_3650587.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-suspends-parler-from-app-store-11610241352
https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-media-platform-parler-goes-dark-as-amazon-suspends-service
https://www.dailywire.com/news/parler-sues-amazon-after-being-suspended

 

It’s Not Just Social Media Being Attacked

It’s not just Donald Trump that is getting attacked here. This is part of the reason I added the poem to the beginning of the post.

So far, Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit and TikTok.

Companies Stripe and Paypal have banned payments of any kind to Trump’s campaign store. This is scary when one can be banned from making financial transactions because of a political point of view, even a wrong one. None of these companies banned donations allowing from freeing rioters over the summer led by Kamala Harris. Remember the rioters that caused $2 billion in damage.

Last week, Jason Lee, was blocked from entering a film studio so that he could try out for a Fox Business news show. The excuse is that he is on a “list”. No one really knows what the list is but we have suspicions.

A host of American corporations have announced that they are halting donations to Republican members of Congress who on Jan. 6 objected to certifying the Electoral College votes cast for President-elect Joe Biden. Those corporations include: American Express, AT&T, Amazon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Commerce Bank, Dow Chemical, Marriott, and Mastercard. These are private companies and they can donate to who the want but I’ll remind you that they never did the same thing to Democrats who supported the BLM/Antifa riots over the summer.

The Washington Post reported on the alleged memo from Cumulus, a syndicate that owns 416 radio stations in the United States, on Jan. 11. The memo purportedly threatened to fire conservative hosts who fail to tone down discussions about election fraud. A number of left-wing media outlets picked up the story. The company supposedly targeted Conservative talk show hosts Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and Dan Bongino. All three denied getting the letter and Cumulus has not responded to inquiries.

According to the Daily Wire and reported on by Tucker Carlson on Fox News:

Following Big Tech’s censorship of President Donald Trump in his last days of office, CNN’s media reporter Oliver Darcy has suggested cable providers do something similar to conservative voices.

Darcy, who routinely writes up alleged bias at Fox News and other right-leaning networks and publications, insisted that the most-watched news channel (Fox routinely beats Darcy’s employer CNN) spent months spreading disinformation about the November election results.

“We regularly discuss what the Big Tech companies have done to poison the public conversation by providing large platforms to bad-faith actors who lie, mislead, and promote conspiracy theories. But what about TV companies that provide platforms to networks such as Newsmax, One America News — and, yes, Fox News?” Darcy wrote in CNN’s “Reliable Sources” newsletter.

So, now CNN, who always gets their ass kicked by Fox News, wants televisions companies to stop carrying news stations that do not agree with the mainstream. Tell me this isn’t scary.

These are just a few instances and within a week of Democrats taking full control of the government. This isn’t going to stop. It’s going to get worse.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-oliver-darcy-ramps-up-pressure-to-censor-networks
https://www.theepochtimes.com/levin-bongino-shapiro-deny-receiving-censorship-memo-from-radio-company-owner_3653759.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/some-corporations-halt-donations-to-republicans-who-voted-against-certifying-bidens-win_3653287.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-campaign-adviser-says-dc-studio-refused-him-because-hes-on-a-list_3653114.html

Not Everyone Thinks Banning Trump is a Great Idea

A lot of people don’t think that it was a great idea for the Big Tech tyrants to ban Trump. And they are coming from places that are a little surprising.

Alexei Navalny, a Russian dissident who was supposedly poisoned by Vladimir Putin, tweeted:

“Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone (not that I ask for it).”

“Among the people who have Twitter accounts are cold-blooded murderers (Putin or Maduro) and liars and thieves (Medvedev). For many years, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been used as a base for Putin’s ‘troll factory’ and similar groups from other authoritarian countries.”

“Of course, Twitter is a private company, but we have seen many examples in Russian and China of such private companies becoming the state’s best friends and the enablers when it comes to censorship.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that banning President Donald Trump from Twitter is “problematic,” her spokesman said on Jan. 11.

Merkel’s spokesman said:

“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators—not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms. Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.”

Clement Beaune, the junior minister for European Union affairs, said he was “shocked” a private company made this kind of decision.

Bueune said:

“This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO. There needs to be public regulation of big online platforms.”

Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party—a centre-right political party—echoed Beaune and called for Big Tech firms to be regulated.

Weber said:

“We cannot leave it to American Big Tech to decide how we can or cannot discuss online. Today’s mechanisms destroy the compromise searching and consensus-building that are crucial in free and democratic societies. We need a stricter regulatory approach.”

Meanwhile, Norway’s left-wing Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre said

“This is a line where freedom of expression is also at stake. If Twitter starts with this sort of thing, it means that they have to go around the world and look at other people completely astray, and shut them out.”

Acting Prime Minister from Australia, Michael McCormack said:

“There’s been a lot of people who have said and done a lot of things on Twitter previously that haven’t received that sort of condemnation or indeed censorship. I’m not one who believes in that sort of censorship.”

Mexican President Manuel López Obrador:

A “court of censorship like an inquisition to manage public opinion.”

“I don’t like anybody being censored or taking away from the right to post a message on Twitter or Face(book),”

Do you know why all these other countries, countries that do censor and regulate speech, are saying this is a really bad thing? That’s because the United States is the bastion of freedom that all these countries aspire to be. And with the United States gives them hope that this experiment can be successful.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-company-pushes-back-against-censorship-and-lockdowns-with-stirring-ad-about-freedom
https://www.theepochtimes.com/russian-dissident-alexei-navalny-rebukes-twitter-for-censorship-of-trump_3651945.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chancellor-merkel-trump-twitter-ban-is-problematic_3651874.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world-leaders-denounce-big-tech-censorship-of-us-president-donald-trump_3652983.html