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Creepy Leftists Censoring America

Greg Crosby

By Greg Crosby

Published January 7, 2022

 Creepy Leftists Censoring America
Facebook. Twitter. The Washington Post. Have you ever taken a close look at the men who control these news and social media platforms? I mean besides the fact that they are all left-wing political hacks, they just look weird.

Pull up photos of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Washington Post's Jeff Bezos, and Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and tell me these guys don't look creepy.

These are the same creeps who decide who is allowed to have free speech in this country and who isn't. Not much of a surprise that conservatives have been disproportionally censored by these neo-Marxist oligarchs. These dictatorial bastards have been hard at it for a long time, even before President Trump was blacklisted from Twitter. The fact that they censored a sitting president of the United States should have been the alarm bell for all of us. And they haven't let up, if anything they have gotten worse.

Shortly before the end of the year, Twitter permanently banned eminent virologist and immunologist, Dr. Robert Malone for having the temerity to criticize the mRNA technology's use in coronavirus vaccines. A technology he helped develop years ago. Because his educated opinion happened to differ with what was being fed to the American public by the left, he had to be silenced. Twitter banned him forever.

The latest target of Marxist censorship is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia. This past weekend Twitter permanently blacklisted Rep. Talyor's personal account. She has one of the largest followings on social media of any Republican member of Congress. Prior to her ban, she had over 465,000 followers on Twitter. Why did they ban her? They claim she violated their "Covid-19 misinformation policy."

In other words, she didn't go along with the leftist/Democrat propaganda. She had the audacity to express her own opinion on the virus, an opinion that the Twitter twits don't happen to share so she was booted. In fact, the Georgia representative says she was banned for tweeting statistics from theÊVaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Fortunately, Rep. Greene's opinions can still be read on free speech-friendly platforms such as Gab.com, Parler, and Gettr. In a recent post regarding the Twitter blacklisting, Gab praised the congresswoman. "Thankfully Congresswoman Greene was smarter than many of her colleagues because she got on Gab over a year ago and built up a tremendous following of hundreds of thousands of people," said Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba.

Torba went on to say, "While everyone is distracted by New Years celebrations Silicon Valley is working overtime on the behalf of the Regime to ramp up censorship ahead of the 2022 election cycle."

So true. And sure enough, Twitter was only the first shoe to drop. A day or so later Facebook jumped on the censor bandwagon and suspended Rep. Greene's page as well. Immediately following that, the congresswoman said that Facebook clearly censored her for critical commentary on the Vaccine Averse Reactions System, the official system for reporting negative vaccine side-effects to the government.

On Gab.com Rep. Greene posted, "This is beyond censorship of speech, I'm an elected Member of Congress representing over 700,000 US tax paying citizens and I represent their voices, values, defend their freedoms, and protect the Constitution." She went on to say, "Who appointed Twitter and Facebook to be the authorities of information and misinformation?Ê When Big Tech decides what political speech of elected Members is accepted and what's not then they are working against our government and against the interest of our people."

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Soon after, none other than President Trump weighed in on it. He said the following:

"Twitter is a disgrace to democracy. They shouldn't be allowed to do business in this country. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a huge constituency of honest, patriotic, hard-working people. They don't deserve what's happened to them on places like low-life Twitter and Facebook. Everybody should drop off Twitter and Facebook. They're boring, have only a radical left point of view, and are hated by everyone. They are a disgrace to our nation. Keep fighting Marjorie!"

But the scariest part is, most people don't realize just how big a deal this social media political censorship is. Not enough of us are paying attention. Maybe people assume that being blackballed from social media sites isn't really censorship. Maybe they think that unless the government itself mandates censorship, it actually isn't censorship at all. But they would be so wrong. The big tech social media sites are such a major part of our national dialogue today that what is allowed and what isn't can alter our entire system of government.

When only one side is able to express its viewpoint on issues we are in deep trouble. This is could very well be the beginning of the end of one of our most cherished freedoms, the freedom of speech. And without freedom of speech our other freedoms aren't worth the paper (or parchment) they're written on.

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