Safety, security, misinformation and hate speech are obvious cover for politically motivated censorship. For YouTube, colluding with legacy media and purging creators made for a very public suicide.
Ten years ago the type of censorship that exists now was almost unimaginable. Having access to information and letting people decide for themselves was once the norm and considered the ethical thing to do. Now the paradigm is "protecting" people from non mainstream narratives. The upside to this is that more and more people distrust MSM and realize that MSM seeks to stiffle opinions that are outside the bounds of discourse defined by MSM.
"In 2016 the Silicon Valley cretins tried to engineer a Hillary Clinton victory, and were shocked when the people didn’t follow their instructions. In the years since, the lies and propaganda from the Corporate media gets worse by the day and the people know it as reflected in polls. The Plandemic has only amplified this awareness exponentially."
I'm very much of the opinion that Hillary would have implemented Agenda 21. The "pandemic" was needed to get rid of the orange man and speed up the timeline so they could get back on track.
Another wonderful article - thank you! I too wonder about the future of Substack now that I'm seriously considering investing more time here. Puts a new interpretation on the quote from Field of Dreams - "If you build it, they will come." (the they being the censorship mafia as opposed to readership). And I've had many of a day dream about kids in basements on private servers hacking enemy sites as young underground resistance operatives. If there were only some in that digital space with the resources to nurture such, it would be a good thing - maybe, hopefully, it's already happening.
Gosh, even on Substack, and even incognito, I'm still looking over my shoulder writing such things.
I made a comment the other day in reference to resistance and the friend freaked out and reminded me that the walls have ears - he wasn't kidding. You'd think Winston Smith would be accustom to this!
Great Article! I think a big thing you didnt mention though was the Silkroad website court case and its precedence. The precedence was that any website must monitor the activities of the participants. People are selling drugs on your website, well then that's life in jail for you.
"the hegemonic power of corporations, corporate media narratives"
I'm sure being a private business is what motivates Susan Wojcicki, Mark Zuckenberg and Sergey Brin, and their Indian allies like Sundar Pichai, Parag Agrawal and the ranks filling up Microsoft headquarters today. And motivates the ones who really formed the Left's paradigm, like the NYT Sulzbergers, the WaPo Grahams and CNN/ex-NBC Jeff Zucker.
Talking about "corporate" - that horrible word! - is something the Left invented. The Marxists claim the media being privately owned is why they don't go along with full Marxism (as if the media don't help Antifa every day). The anti-war leftists like Glenn Greenwald have adopted the "corporate" as their accusation - supposedly the wars are all about helping their fellow business owners to sell weapons. (In that case, why not invade African or South American countries, instead of antagonizing people in the vulnerable Persian Gulf?)
Like Gillette and the Salvation Army and so many others. Gone woke, gone broke. The market will teach these control freaks a hard lesson. Unlike the banks, they are not to big to fail.
It sure would be a pity for the "Corporate-State" mafia, to which Substack and its investors belong, if some dissidents organized a boisterous and successful movement to abolish their precious incorporation. This simple, overdue change would help every go-getter and clique of go-getters to do business as a sole proprietorship or a partnership. (The new way could be called Responsibility Capitalism.) Also on the bright side of things, such a movement would bother some folks who already are huffing and puffing fearfully about being attacked by the very system for which conservatives and libertarians have long played the role of helpful shill.
It sure would be a shame if everyone installed a YouTube adblocker and left 50 tabs running 4K videos all night when there computers aren't in use.
Ten years ago the type of censorship that exists now was almost unimaginable. Having access to information and letting people decide for themselves was once the norm and considered the ethical thing to do. Now the paradigm is "protecting" people from non mainstream narratives. The upside to this is that more and more people distrust MSM and realize that MSM seeks to stiffle opinions that are outside the bounds of discourse defined by MSM.
"In 2016 the Silicon Valley cretins tried to engineer a Hillary Clinton victory, and were shocked when the people didn’t follow their instructions. In the years since, the lies and propaganda from the Corporate media gets worse by the day and the people know it as reflected in polls. The Plandemic has only amplified this awareness exponentially."
I'm very much of the opinion that Hillary would have implemented Agenda 21. The "pandemic" was needed to get rid of the orange man and speed up the timeline so they could get back on track.
Another wonderful article - thank you! I too wonder about the future of Substack now that I'm seriously considering investing more time here. Puts a new interpretation on the quote from Field of Dreams - "If you build it, they will come." (the they being the censorship mafia as opposed to readership). And I've had many of a day dream about kids in basements on private servers hacking enemy sites as young underground resistance operatives. If there were only some in that digital space with the resources to nurture such, it would be a good thing - maybe, hopefully, it's already happening.
Gosh, even on Substack, and even incognito, I'm still looking over my shoulder writing such things.
I made a comment the other day in reference to resistance and the friend freaked out and reminded me that the walls have ears - he wasn't kidding. You'd think Winston Smith would be accustom to this!
Great piece. I won't subscribe to YouTube TV because of this censorship.
I have material on utoob. It is my music, much of the Rule of Freedom suite
Obviously one can't be too bold on msm
But freedom is a concept that may still resonate
Until they disallow and ban any such talk or code
If utoob was honourable they'd post folks reading rfk Bible
I am in s f if folks want to do a people's read of the work in public, maybe we can post it ( on odysee?)
Heard rumble is censoring now too is it so?
Great Article! I think a big thing you didnt mention though was the Silkroad website court case and its precedence. The precedence was that any website must monitor the activities of the participants. People are selling drugs on your website, well then that's life in jail for you.
EweTueb... a safe place where the sheeple bleat
"the hegemonic power of corporations, corporate media narratives"
I'm sure being a private business is what motivates Susan Wojcicki, Mark Zuckenberg and Sergey Brin, and their Indian allies like Sundar Pichai, Parag Agrawal and the ranks filling up Microsoft headquarters today. And motivates the ones who really formed the Left's paradigm, like the NYT Sulzbergers, the WaPo Grahams and CNN/ex-NBC Jeff Zucker.
Talking about "corporate" - that horrible word! - is something the Left invented. The Marxists claim the media being privately owned is why they don't go along with full Marxism (as if the media don't help Antifa every day). The anti-war leftists like Glenn Greenwald have adopted the "corporate" as their accusation - supposedly the wars are all about helping their fellow business owners to sell weapons. (In that case, why not invade African or South American countries, instead of antagonizing people in the vulnerable Persian Gulf?)
Like Gillette and the Salvation Army and so many others. Gone woke, gone broke. The market will teach these control freaks a hard lesson. Unlike the banks, they are not to big to fail.
It sure would be a pity for the "Corporate-State" mafia, to which Substack and its investors belong, if some dissidents organized a boisterous and successful movement to abolish their precious incorporation. This simple, overdue change would help every go-getter and clique of go-getters to do business as a sole proprietorship or a partnership. (The new way could be called Responsibility Capitalism.) Also on the bright side of things, such a movement would bother some folks who already are huffing and puffing fearfully about being attacked by the very system for which conservatives and libertarians have long played the role of helpful shill.
Goodcitizen, Re Substacks new writer in residence, did you discuss it already? I smell sharkskin.