While we're still on the topic check out this piece the Khmer Times put out yesterday. Ten internet points to whoever can identify where it was plagiarized from:
Donald Trump is the one maverick who can free Americans from the Big Tech gulag
Despite their historical disdain of the Soviet Union, Americans are now prisoners of their own electronic dictatorship that crushes political dissent. Can Trump’s battle against Big Tech return free speech to the land of the free?
These days, there are no late-night knocks on the door signaling the deportation of some unfortunate ‘comrade’ to a penal colony on the outskirts of the empire for the crime of ‘wrong think’.
The overlords of Silicon Valley have effectively streamlined brutal totalitarian techniques, concealing the iron fist of repression inside the velvet glove of algorithms, fact checkers and ever-changing ‘community standards’. But make no mistake, the result is the same: the disappearance of individuals who dare hold opinions at variance with those at the commanding heights of our technocracy.
Just ask former US President Donald Trump, who is currently waging a legal battle against Big Tech for banishing him from the modern town hall comprised of Facebook, Twitter, and Google-owned YouTube. But as the 45th president has emphasized, this legal challenge is not primarily about him – please stifle your belly laugh – but rather an effort to stop those companies from “aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends.” Perhaps there would be less suspicion if these companies behaved themselves as politically neutral animals, but that is anything but the case.
The claim that Silicon Valley is actively working on behalf of the Democratic Party has been the central argument of various congressional inquiries for years now. The scenario is familiar to all and proceeds as follows: about once a year, the CEOs of the big three tech monopolies – Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google – are paraded like peacocks before a show trial where they are given a dressing down by outraged members of the Republican Party. After pleading their innocence and love of free speech regardless of political membership, blah, blah, blah, they slither back to Silicon Valley where they continue in their duplicitous ways.
By way of a thought experiment, consider what the response would have been from the titans of Big Tech had the damaging contents of a laptop belonging to, say, Donald Trump Jr. been discovered by a computer repairman prior to the 2020 presidential election. It’s easily imaginable that every single media outlet would have jumped on the story like a pack of rabid wolves, enjoying the unbridled freedom in distributing that news from every available platform.
Now consider what happened when the New York Post, the fourth-largest publication in the US, broke the news – just one month before the presidential election – of potentially incriminating emails discovered on, yes, Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Big Tech, acting with remarkable synchronicity, clamped down on the Post like a vice, preventing it from disseminating the story. Twitter went one totalitarian step further, locking down the newspaper’s account altogether, preventing it from communicating with its readers until it agreed to delete the original tweet featuring the Biden story.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50894150/d ... ech-gulag/