If you put your iPhone to the ground, you’ll hear distant war drums beating. On a quiet day, you might also catch hints of Silicon Valley boardroom debates. They know trouble is on the horizon, and I’ll bet some of that crypto money tech company bigwigs are wondering how the heck they’re going to respond.
Nearly a year has passed since the 2020 election, yet there has not been a clear, satisfactory answer to the central mystery: How did a dull, declining Joe Biden manage to get more than 81 million votes and win the presidency?
Facebook has become known in recent years for the ruthless enforcement of its internal content rules, to the point that posting anything on the site can sometimes feel like opening your mouth in Stalinist Russia—you never know if you're going to become an Unperson by saying the wrong thing. But the social media company has apparently allowed millions of users to skirt around those rules without being punished:
A Mark Zuckerberg-funded nonprofit, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, gave a virtually inactive Michigan nonprofit, The Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration, a $12 million grant in September 2020 for the putative purpose of helping voters figure out how to navigate the supposed complexities of mail-in ballots, as The Michigan Star reported in April 2021.
American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) President Lori Roman has written an op ed which explains how, in the interest of promoting free markets, we might inadvertently be supporting corporatism, a form of economic totalitarianism where government and corporations collude to destroy individual rights.
The New York Post ran a second story on October 15th claiming it has evidence Hunter Biden openly lobbied a Chinese energy firm to cash in on his family's influence. Once again, social media giants Facebook and Twitter are blocking citizen access to these stories. Media censors do not have the right to supersede our First Amendment protections. #freedomtoread
On October 14th, the New York Post ran a story reprinting an email allegedly from a Ukrainian oil exec thanking Hunter Biden for providing access to his father, VP Joe Biden. Twitter and Facebook have blocked circulation of this article. It is not up to liberal social media censors to assess the veracity of these claims -- it's up to the American people. #freedomtoread
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh often refers to young peoples’ thinking process as “young skulls full of mush.” Don’t get us wrong; we love young people. But it is a biological fact that the brain is not fully mature until somewhere between age 25 - 26. It is also a fact that kids are bombarded with liberal messages from the culture and their teachers to the point where they don’t even realize there are other sides to polar bears dying from climate change and Conservatives being a bunch of fuddy-duddies. This article is chilling. Facebook and the liberal editors at Teen Vogue utterly manipulating young minds and hypocritically demonstrating their agreement with Rush. Difference? Conservatives want them to think and reason through their values and political principles. Liberals don’t provide them with that opportunity. We are grateful (sort of) when they get caught in a lie; at least we can point it out.
10/8: ACRU Policy Board Member Hans von Spakovsky and John York examine why Democrats seem to be focusing on policing Facebook's free speech rather than defending the Constitution.
4/10: Liberal extremists want to silence and punish anyone who doesn’t share their views, and Facebook just gave them a powerful new way to do that.
