Over the past few years,
tech giants decided to launch
a campaign to censor
conservative ideas
on the major social media
and internet search platforms.
From “shadowbans” on Facebook
and Twitter, to demonetization
of YouTube videos, to pulled ads
for Republican candidates
during election campaigns !
Millennials dominate
the leadership at many
of these social media
platforms, and
they are offended
by political viewpoints
different from their own.
Facebook actually
developed algorithms
to “deboost” content
with certain keywords.
A Facebook whistleblower
who approached
James O’Keefe’s
Project Veritas,
revealed Facebook
was limiting distribution
and appearance
in news feeds
of conservative ideas.
This was stealth censorship.
Facebook's algorithm recognizes
the syntax and style popular
among conservatives
to “deboost” their content.
The terms“mainstream media,”
“SJW” (Social Justice Warrior)
and “red pill”, were among the terms
listed as red flags, according to the
former Facebook insider.
This censorship is a great threat
to free speech in the U.S.
U.S. Representative Devin Nunes
filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit
against Twitter on Monday,
accusing the social media site
of “shadow-banning conservatives”,
including himself, to influence
the 2018 elections.
Nunes claimed Twitter wanted
to derail his work on the House
Intelligence Committee,
which he chaired until 2019,
as he looked into alleged and
apparent surveillance abuses
by the government.
If left unchecked,
Big Tech and liberal activists
could construct a private
“social credit” system
like what the communists
have implemented in China.
Big Tech can exclude conservatives
from wide swaths of American life
simply because their political views
differ from those of tech executives.
There is no conservative principle
that says we are obligated to adopt
a laissez-faire attitude while the
richest companies on earth
abuse the power we give them
to put a thumb on the scale
for our political enemies.
If we lose the ability to speak freely
on the Internet, how else are we
supposed to fight for the future
of our society ?
