President Trump Takes on Big Tech
By The Sharp Edge It was Benjamin Franklin who penned the phrase in a letter in 1722, “Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” Franklin went on to explain in that same letter, “Guilt only dreads liberty of speech, which drags it out of its lurking holes, and exposes its deformity and horror to daylight.” Perhaps it is that very guilt that causes Big Tech tyrants to silence voices of criticism. The attack on free speech never became more apparent than the day Big Tech chose to silence the President of the United States. After all, President Trump has a knack for shining light on ugly truths the corrupt establishment would prefer stayed hidden. Fortunately, Trump is not one to back down from a fight – especially one as worthy as the protection…
Brazen Takeover Leading Up To Inauguration Day
By James Fitzgerald This was to be an article about the transition team of Joe Biden in the run up to his possible inauguration. However, the unfolding events over the past few days cast new light on the nature of the presidential election and added credence to claims that the sitting president has been subject to an attempted coup on many levels. It would be unjournalistic and naive to echo the fait accompli of the corporate media about who will take the presidential podium on January 20th without first charting the staggering developments in the corporate media. It has been postulated that the social and political schematics we see on TV “is all a movie”. Well, this week on Capitol Hill the movie plot moved into its third act, and the bi-partisan audience held its breath as an unexpected but inevitable showdown took place amid the corridors of power. Protests…
The Purge Just Got Real
A censorship storm just surged across America, taking down conservatives faster than they could share their contact information, and the biggest censorship of all, was removing a sitting President. From Twitter to Facebook, Shopify, Instagram, and everything in between, they just erased the President of the United States of America. Millions of conservatives are being removed from all platforms and quickly jumping ship to Parler and Gab. Of course, Apple threatened to remove Parler from their phone app, and Google has done the same. Now there is talk of their internet server providers gunning for them, and Amy Peikoff, responsible for policy on Parler, just stated on the Tucker Carlson show, if their internet hosting provider takes down the servers, it’s the end of the platform. How do they not have a failover in place? Time will tell if Parler survives. Meanwhile, Gab is having its own issues with stalling…
When Big Government Gets Into Bed with Big Tech
By James Fitzgerald There can be no doubt any more that there exists a four-headed hydra that reaches into every facet of our digital lives — and which has been given our tacit permission to give or take our freedoms of expression as it sees fit. The Google-YouTube-Twitter-FaceBook axiom has risen to unprecedented power across the globe by providing the means to both disseminate and view content. There is an expression — power corrupts — but were these individuated cyber sentinels bad seeds to begin with, or did they gradually become drunk on the largesse of monopolized money? If the recent purge of Conservative “patriot” platforms, in many cases without notice or justification, is a gauge of the hydra’s character, then we might liken it to a sociopathic dictator. SGT Report, and 14 of the other casualties, wasted no time in pursuing a federal lawsuit against Google and YouTube. On…
You Talkin’ To Me, Pal? – The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Discourse
By James Fitzgerald It felt like all eyes were on him as he sat there pondering his last words — an utterance that had come from his heart, and which he thought would take the dull, cruel conversation in another, healthier, direction. But the silence was deafening, as if he had just walked into a saloon in the old Wild West and the piano had just stopped playing. What should he do now, he pondered, withdraw and find another outlet, or pull his proverbial gun out one more time, and blast these sycophants between the eyes? “John98765354” wasn’t really in a western bar, but he was in Bandit Country — a focal point of cyberspace we have come to know as social media. He had interjected in a thread about mask wearing under Covid conditions, and had challenged the status quo of the group by suggesting that masks might be…
