Reading about one of the social-media channels blocking a video of Ron DeSantis having a round-table discussion about The Virus, in remembering Colonel Kurtz’s monologue in Apocalypse Now, it just hit me.
If Big Tech chooses to suppress political speech for containing misinformation, will they not also have to suppress commercial speech, commercial advertising for containing misinformation?
And if they don’t or won’t, will that not eventually lead to themselves being suppressed, by somebody, for disseminating misinformation? Because what information is ever disseminated by a commercial source that doesn’t contain some manner of selective presentation of facts, embellishment or exaggeration?
You assume consistency when inconsistency is a cornerstone to how they operate. There is always the danger that progressive fascists turn against their own but not until they are no longer useful, or their demise privides greater benefit than their existence. Things can change fast but for now, they have the power.
This power also protects them from outgroup competition, at least for now.
Soon? I’d say has.
Reading about one of the social-media channels blocking a video of Ron DeSantis having a round-table discussion about The Virus, in remembering Colonel Kurtz’s monologue in Apocalypse Now, it just hit me.
If Big Tech chooses to suppress political speech for containing misinformation, will they not also have to suppress commercial speech, commercial advertising for containing misinformation?
And if they don’t or won’t, will that not eventually lead to themselves being suppressed, by somebody, for disseminating misinformation? Because what information is ever disseminated by a commercial source that doesn’t contain some manner of selective presentation of facts, embellishment or exaggeration?
You assume consistency when inconsistency is a cornerstone to how they operate. There is always the danger that progressive fascists turn against their own but not until they are no longer useful, or their demise privides greater benefit than their existence. Things can change fast but for now, they have the power.
This power also protects them from outgroup competition, at least for now.