A Year Ago, Big Tech Declared Open War On America. Here’s What’s Next – The Federalist

President Donald Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter one year ago this day. In the ensuing turmoil, its easy to forget why. Ask near-any self-declared politico around Washington, D.C., and youll hear an unsure and uncertain allusion to the Capitol riot.

Its important to understand their reasons, however, to understand whats in store for the rest of our country.

Fortunately, we dont need to wonder; Twitter was open and upfront on the issue at least as much as they ever are: The sitting president of the United States, they declared, had sent two terrible and unpardonable tweets.

First, hed written that the political movement hed started would continue into the future, and wouldnt be disrespected:

The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

Second, he said he wouldnt be attending President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration in two weeks time. To all of those who have asked, he wrote, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

These violated their Glorification of Violence policy, Twitter claimed, and so the president was immediately permanently suspended from the service.

Its a private company, Twitters defenders insist, so it doesnt need remotely passable reasons to ban the president from messaging his 90 million followers. If you dont like it, build your own, sort of thing.

But that was as much a lie as the justification for banning the president, and the next night, Parler an alternative to Twitter that had rocketed to the most-downloaded app on the planet literally overnight was nearly destroyed by a combined attack from Apple, Google, and Amazon Web Services.

Parler had been used to organize the riot, Big Tech claimed. This turned out to be another lie, but it didnt matter. The weeks riot had given them all the rope they needed for hangings, with corporate media those bold lovers of the First Amendment jeering and cheering them on their way.

The Capitol riot was used as an excuse for deplatforming an American president and smashing a private company, but it wasnt the reason: The illiberal left has long used any pretense at all to justify its centralization of control and crushing of dissent; and Big Tech, once a free-wheeling vehicle for decentralized innovation, is now no more than an arm of the illiberal left.

During the 2020 election, Big Tech worked hand in glove with Democrats and corporate media to suppress the true story of Hunter Bidens corruption and defend their candidate under completely unproven pretenses.

In 2021, they went after conservative leaders on their platforms and cut the foundations out from a competitors platform.

Barring dissenting voices from social media wasnt enough, however. Democratic politicians had fled Texas for weeks in an attempt to stop their colleagues from curtailing their states abortion regime, but once the left was defeated, Big Tech deplatformed Texan Christians on their own website. Corporate media cheered.

Public health is the excuse used to silence doctors, scientists, and parents challenging the administrations COVID orthodoxy. Graphic content is used as the excuse to silence artists highlighting the Talibans brutal rule in the wake of the administrations retreat from Afghanistan.

Every week, the left grows bolder in their censorship-and-control campaign: On Jan. 6, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee introduced legislation to, outlaw attempts by candidates and elected officials to spread lies about free and fair elections when it has the likelihood to spread violence.

What constitutes a lie and what constitutes violence well, thats up to Jay and the boys.

There was a day when Americas Democratic leaders claimed to stand for freedom, individuality, and speech. That day is long gone, as is the day Silicon Valley stood for an open and interconnected planet.

Today, these forces stand for centralization. They want to control our opinions, decide who speaks and who doesnt, decide who can do business and who cant, and decide whos in power in Washington. The sooner we understand this, the better.

On Jan. 7 and 8 last year, they went too far, and now an alternative economy is afoot. Its incredibly rare to see a dominant industry turn so wildly on half its customers, and entrepreneurs of all stripes have seized the opportunity it affords.

Big Tech hates us, and they arent going to stop. We, however, can stop working with them. We know who they are; its time they learn what were about.

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