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Social media is becoming the U.S. “Ministry of Truth”
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
YouTube just announced that they will be “removing content that contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic processes, such as elections and censuses.” This is only the latest in a series of acts of censorship by social media companies. Some of these previous examples show a trend, as Caitlin Johnstone points out:
“We already know from experience that social media giants tend to follow in each other’s footsteps whenever there’s a significant step in the direction of censorship, like their coordinated cross-platform removals of alternative media outlets, accounts from US-targeted nations, and people who have been labeled ‘conspiracy theorists.’”
That’s one point that leads somewhere troubling. No dissenting voices.
Of course, as some have pointed out, they are perfectly within their rights to remove content according to the rules of their terms of service. However, as others have also pointed out, often the enforcement of those terms is selective. That might sound like a good thing to you when it’s Alex Jones going down the memory hole, but what about when it’s CopWatch?
There’s something that seems especially insidious about this to me. These companies are becoming something…
