The Sounds of Social Media's Silencing of Americans is Deafening

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment gives every American five basic rights:

Freedom of speech,
press,
petition,
assembly
and religion.

Each of these is under attack. For example:

The legacy media (ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc.) and social media sites have become the propaganda arms for the current administration in one form or another. These media bullhorns now determine what will be seen or heard or not seen or heard about certain topics, e.g. Covid and the impact(s) of the various vaccines on our bodies e.g. altering our DNA.
We the people cannot petition our elected officials, e.g. the DOJ labeling parents who disagree with what is taught in public schools “domestic terrorists.”
The January 6th, 2021 protest in Washington, D.C. was a peaceful assembly of the people to petition their government concerning massive voter fraud during the 2020 election. Many of these peaceful, patriotic and unarmed protesters were arrested and several were murdered, e.g. Ashli Babbitt.
Religion is under attack in America. Not all religions just those who believe in Judeo- Christian morals and values are now considered enemies of the state.
Finally, speech is no longer free. Saying some things, like there are only two genders (male and female) will get you censored or even banned from social media sites or even causes some to loose their jobs.

Social Media’s Murdering of our Freedom of Speech

Social media protects some forms of speech but outlaws other forms of speech. In other words they determine what you can and cannot say on their websites. We’ve seen this before in Nazi, Germany, in the former Soviet Union and today in Communist China, Venezuela and Cuba.

For example:

If you believe that Communism is evil and those who support it are enemies of mankind then you’re banned on social media sites.
If you believe that sodomy is a sin you are labeled homophobic and banned.
If you believe that radical Islamists, by their actions, are terrorists you are banned as Islamophobic.
If you are a conservationist and not an environmentalist then you are a harm to the planet and are blocked.
If you disagree with the current administration’s executive mandates then you are forbidden from expressing these beliefs and blocked from expressing them.
If you have physically suffered or someone you know has died from getting vaxxed/jabbed then your are silenced. Or worse your pain and suffering is ignored.
If you are someone like Andy Ngo who’s reporting on the violence and destruction caused by Antifa then you are censored on Twitter by none other than Antifa. Insane but true.

What we are now seeing in America is the death of free speech on social media sites including, Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube. Some of these social media sites are blatant in how they ban some speech, but leave other speech untouched.

Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal has said that the social media platform’s content censorship should not be restricted by the First Amendment and that Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech.”

Agrawal stated: “The scarce commodity today is attention. There’s a lot of content out there. A lot of tweets out there, not all of it gets attention, some subset of it gets attention. And so increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content and that sort of, is, is, a struggle that we’re working through in terms of how we make sure these recommendation systems that we’re building, how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.”

So Twitter is working to “recommend content” but who’s content?

Discover the Networks reported:

Just one day after far-left activist Jack Dorsey was replaced as the CEO of Twitter by the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal, the platform has banned the sharing of any images or videos of people without their explicit consent. The totalitarian Agrawal stated, “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”

A healthy public conversation depends on the free exchange of ideas. A healthy public conversation depends on freedom of speech, but not yelling fire in a crowed theatre.

So is it the intent of Twitter to yell “fire” in their crowed platform for one group but not another?

The answer is clear. It was Twitter who banned President Donald J. Trump from its platform. That was the “tweet heard round the world” and led to many who supported Trump being shadow banned or outright de-platformed.

Bottom Line

In his novel 1984 George Orwell wrote this conversation:

“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“

Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said.

Today Americans are suffering. Because of lockdowns, vaccine mandates and government policies the working classes are losing their jobs, their livelihoods and their dignity. But is there a light at the end of this dark tunnel we find ourselves in? Perhaps.

In the case Thomas More Law Center v. Bonta the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Roberts wrote in the Court’s opinion:

“When it comes to the freedom of association…the protections of the First Amendment are triggered not only by actual restrictions on an individual’s ability to join with others to further shared goals. The risk of a chilling effect on association is enough, because First Amendment freedoms need breathing space to survive.”

Will this standard also be apply to an individual’s ability to join with others on social media platforms to voice their opinions?

The First Amendment is under attack because it defends our most basic inalienable rights. Without the First Amendment we the people become we the slaves of the governments at every level.

Be warned it is coming, an American Revolution 2.0. The revolution will occur on November 8th, 2022 mid-term elections. If conservatives take back one or both houses of Congress we may once again have hope. We may see power transferred back to the people!

Let me be very clear: We the people will not live with a government boot on our collective necks for ever.

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