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Internet Censorship, Ego Death, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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There is no legitimate basis upon which to support monopolistic plutocratic megacorporations with extensive government ties silencing dissident voices in order to control the thoughts that people think about Covid-19. This is true regardless of your stance on the virus itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a known fact that Silicon Valley tech giants have extensive ties to the US government<\/a>. Like, it\u2019s not a secret. At all. Yet whenever you object to internet censorship you always get people babbling about how it\u2019s a \u201cprivate company\u201d so it\u2019s okay. If a company is intertwined with government power in myriad ways, how is its deplatforming behavior meaningfully distinct from state censorship? Especially when its willingness to collaborate with the government protects it from antitrust cases, thereby killing any potential competition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFree market\u201d types say \u201cIf you don\u2019t like it you can go on another platform!\u201d No you can\u2019t. There\u2019s no competition. If you don\u2019t like Twitter you can leave a platform of hundreds of millions for a platform like Gab, which is like ten people and nine of them are Nazis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019ll say \u201cNo biggie, go be on that tiny platform over there, there\u2019s plenty of free speech there!\u201d I am sure there is. There\u2019s free speech in the desert, too. Free speech doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019ve isolated yourself on a platform where your voice is only heard by a few fringey people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019ve herded everyone onto a few monopolistic government-tied platforms, and now they\u2019re censoring those platforms<\/a> with an increasingly authoritarian fist. There\u2019s no \u201cfree market\u201d solution to this problem, because it\u2019s not happening in a free market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Internet Censorship, Ego Death, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix There is no legitimate basis upon which to support monopolistic plutocratic megacorporations with extensive government ties silencing dissident voices in order to control the thoughts that people think about Covid-19. This is true regardless of your stance on the virus itself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,17039,120,2128,379,14545,9252],"class_list":["post-53084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-free-market","tag-government","tag-narrative-control","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53085,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53084\/revisions\/53085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}