When, as and if states wake up to their own sovereignty, they will realize that they could destroy Big Tech censorship in a very short period of time. Unfortunately, too many state legislators are complicit with or compromised by the same censors.
Today’s net neutrality is not about helping gamers and video consumers get more bandwidth. It is not about equality. Rather, it is about institutionalizing Internet censorship, forcing everyone who disseminates or transmits content to abide by infamous fact-checker rules as leftists determine them.
A Democrat-controlled Congress is anxious to grab censorship authority away from Big Tech platforms like Google, Twitter and Facebook. This is not an isolated incident, but is indicative of why the Biden Administration is reviving the battle for Net Neutrality, which I recently wrote about.
The newest form of extreme censorship is to simply ban someone from accessing the Internet at all. The charge is spreading disinformation and fake news, which is subjectively in the eyes of the beholder. This could become comparable to "no fly lists" for suspected terrorists.
Censorship is rampant in America and around the world. Mercola's new book "The Truth About COVID-19" is getting immediate pressure from all quarters, even though it has not been released yet. It can be pre-ordered directly from the publisher. This is Mercola's personal account.
Amazon is a monopoly in the book publishing industry and has taken to banning existing books from its system that management does not agree with. Other publishers that use Amazon's print-on-demand services are now refusing new books that it knows Amazon will ban.
Facebook thought it was the tougher tyrant when it initially banned all Australian news stories from its platform but the OZ government didn't blink and Mark Zuckerberg quickly regretted trying to muscle the down--under continent to the mat.
In the most draconian move ever, all Australian stories are banned from being shared on Facebook, whether inside or outside of the 'down under' state. This could result in a PR nightmare as other states are now lining up to tackle Facebook's out-of-control megalomanic lust for control.
Left-leaning Project Censored sponsored Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas on Censorship and then duly shocked when the entire conference channel on YouTube was summarily deleted.
Finally, some clarity to the network of censors around the world who control what gets censored and what does not. The network is relatively small in number, but well funded and able to leverage themselves many times over through more traditional media. This network is 100% intentional.