Daniel Greenfield has more on the threat to free speech, and
how Big Tech censors information. At Front Page:
After the 2016 election, the claim
that free speech had gone too far and needed to be controlled became widely
accepted, first in the media, and then among the big dot coms who coordinated a
censorship campaign with media fact checkers. The stated goal was to stamp out
‘disinformation’. And ‘disinformation’ was defined as any viewpoint that media
lefties disagreed with or found disagreeable.
Fact checkers were embedded into
Facebook and Google’s operations. Conservative content was censored, deranked,
and pushed under corporate media content. The ‘disinformation’ pretext, which
was supposed to describe foreign propaganda, was extended to apply to nearly
any conservative view.
. . .
This push to suppress conservative
content on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies is an
attack on indexing. People find posts, articles, and videos through search
engines, these days largely a Google monopoly, and peer feeds on social media.
The indexing attack has been successful with conservative sites losing traffic,
and conservatives being banned on social media.
But indexing is just one prong of
the attack. The others are advertising and payments.
If you’re a leftist, you don’t want
people finding conservative content. Going after indexing means that the people
who aren’t specifically looking for conservative content won’t find it. The
idea is to turn conservative media into a ghetto. The impact on elections and
national debates is obvious.
. . .
There is much more in the full article here.
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