Dear Friends,
It seems to me, Google, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter, among others, have become tools of oppression. Uniformly enforcing a certain political view to the exclusion of others. While that is normally the role of a “Stermabetilung,” the tech giants have taken on that role with gusto, to our detriment. Lord Acton said, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” That is true of kings, senates and corporations. Monopoly is almost always a function of government policies, and Google started on CIA seed money, which makes it’s monopoly, and the absolute power it wields, that of the bureaucracy, and the new class progressive faction that owns it. Which means, any regulation the monopolies, Facebook, Google, and Twitter face, will be written by themselves, for themselves.
In an alarming story that few know about… Google manipulated search results in California, and by doing so, changed the outcome of elections in normally republican districts to democrat… rendering democracy obsolete. Even as Youtube is quick to ban or demonetize a conservative, but allows even open calls for violence, pedophilia and terrorism… just not anything that ridicules progressives or progressive protected groups. Just as Twitter suppresses conservatives by diabolical means, like shadow banning, Facebook is quick to punish thought crimes by temporary suspensions and so forth. They all act out the desires of the progressive faction, suppressing pro constitutional political speech. These are the actions of political tools rather than for profit companies.
It is only through their monopoly status that they can act this way. Any company that faced even close to perfect competition, has to be extremely reactive to their customer’s wants and needs, rather than some dark political faction, if it was to stay afloat for more than a day. Only where people are channelized into certain firms, can those firms engage in actions that clearly violate the interests, wants and needs of their customers, because there is no place else to go! That is the beauty of monopoly and big government, the people have no where else to turn, we are captured! Judge Greene broke up Ma Bell, Standard Oil was shattered and American Tobacco was chopped up, because they were a threat to competition and the citizenry. Today’s monopolies are set up, by government, for just that purpose.
When a company enforces censorship based on politics, that company is a tool of oppression. If the phone company censored phone conversations, based on political content, would that not be oppression? Even though a private company is doing it? Big tech is utterly enthralled by progressivism. Techies are the perfect people to be captured by an idea. They are geniuses at programming, creativity and implementation of that creativity, so they believe themselves infallible. They are not experts at economics, climate, sociology, history, religion, philosophy or humanism, yet they think they are. So they use their genius to foist absurdity on people who know better, but are powerless to stop them. Their hubristic ignorance has made them the tools of oppression.
Now the tech giants are openly pleading with the government to regulate them… they have given up Br’er Rabbit’s tactic with Br’er Fox… Skin me alive, burn me or boil me in oil, just don’t thrown me in that brier patch! A warren of regulations that will permanently protect their monopoly status, but they have made us so mad… they beg for the brier patch! If any regulation is foisted on Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, it should be anti trust regulation. Break them up. Make Google a generic name that leads to a page with a multitude of search engine results side by side and make the user databases and content of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter available for competitors to use. Don’t let them write their own regulations, granting themselves permanent monopolies… that would just be stupid.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
