Timothy Birdnow

I was just thinking about the 2 plus year ban on Donald Trump by Facebook.

Now Facebook owns social media these days; a true monopoly. Where are the Trust Busters?

The Progressive movement was proud as peacocks about trust busting but now are happy with a Facebook monopoly. They broke up AT and T for far less; ATT didn't ban people from using telephones for saying something they didn't like. If they DID cut someone off (almost always for non-payment) that person could still use a pay phone or a friend's phone. Facebook tries to deny even that to someone they decide is a non-person.

And to pull that crap on the President of the United States is astonishing arrogance, monstrous arrogance. If there is any proof Facebook needs to be broken up it is that. It should also be treated as a publisher rather than a simple bulletin board.

This ban goes through the next election by a happy coincidence!

If they are going to try to manipulate public opinion by suppressing opinion they do not agree with, they have to face the consequences.  I would add that Facebook has more users than the Catholic Church has worshipers.
And, unlike Catholicism which must compete with a multitude of other religions, Facebook has no real competition, and when it does it either buys them or crushes them (as they did to Parler).

Facebook and Google and the other tech giants are not capitalists and the arguments for free market decision making do not apply. These are companies working hand-in-glove with the U.S. government, most especially with the national security apparatus (such as the NSA). Google got it's start, for instance, with seed money from the CIA. I rather suspect the same is true of Facebook. Certainly Peter Thiel, one of the early major investors in Facebook, had CIA ties.

In fact, where in the past the government had to find ways to twist information out of people, with social media and search engines people were quite eager to give it. And Facebook makes it's money by sellling your data. How much of it goes to the National Security Agency? The CIA?

And yet the Progressives refuse to consider trust busting here. What we are witnessing is the merger of tyrannical government and mega-corporations in a fascist style entity. Instead of socialism imposed by a powerful government we are seeing corporations impose socialism on a subservient government. Or at least impose it's will on a subservient government. Funny; I remember when the Left was the ones who worried about Corporatism.

America had a multiplicity of institutions that have disappeared in the last fifty years. Nobody joins social clubs like the Elks or the Optimists anymore. The Boy Scouts have pretty much committed Hari Kari. The Churches are now feeble and hold little sway over the minds of the public. All that is left is the internet and other electronic media. And all of that is controlled by forces aligned with statism and collectivism. And Big Tech keeps gobbling up any new voices, like Ms. Packman gobbling up the little balls. No emperor or king ever had the kind of power over the human mind that Big Tech now enjoyys. Emperors and kings only ruled by force of arms; Big Tech rules by the force of information.

And they won't allow anyone to get out of line. Almost everyone I know on Facebook has been suspended at some point, without even being told what it was they did that was a violation of the rules. There is no transparency or fairness; these tech people are pimply-faced immature tyrants, and they are going to pay everyone back! It's Revenge of the Nerds writ titanic!

Chicago is known for corrupt politics and the Daley Machine which stole election on a regular basis. Why? Because Chicago was a booming city and the Capone mob basically took it over. Yes, it was corrupt before Capone, but it was so because crime was rampant for a long time. And the fact it was on Lake Michigan and had access to shipping from Canada during Prohibition made it a prime place for criminal activity. The result was organized crime ruled Chicago and largely still does. Saul Alinsky, the famous author of Rules for Radicals which so influenced both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, came from Capone's mob (he was Frank Nitty's assistant.) IF Chicago is a cautionary tale about the domination of a strong-arming commercial power taking over, what does that tell us about Silicon Valley? They are the true Mafia, with the power to crush those who displease them.

It's time for some trust-busting, if you ask me.

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