Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and You Tube Conspire to Censor Online Content
Stephen Lendman
Powerful interests in America threaten alternative sources of news, information and opinion.
Microsoft,
Facebook, Twitter and You Tube announced plans for a joint Internet
censorship database on the phony pretext of eliminating “extremist
content.”
Their
scheme threatens media and speech freedom, likely aiming for sanitized
online content only, independent views censored, threatening writers
like myself and many others.
Reporting
and opinions diverging from mainstream views risk being labeled “fake
news” or “extremist content,” a slippery slope toward undermining First
Amendment rights altogether.
The
above companies and other IT ones agreed on a code of conduct, pledging
they’ll work with the European Commission (the EU executive body) to
“sanction (and) criminalize individual perpetrators (of) hate speech”
online.
The
EU threatened “non-legislative” action if online “fake news” and “hate
speech” aren’t removed in 24 hours - censorship legislation to follow if
the “non-legislative approach” fails.
The
new database is expected to be operating by early 2017 - complicit IT
companies collaborating against online speech and media freedom.
On
Tuesday, tech giants involved said they “hope this collaboration will
lead to greater efficiency as we continue to enforce our policies to
help curb the pressing global issue of terrorist content online” -
meaning whatever America’s deep state wants censored.
Pre-WW
II Louisiana governor, senator and presidential aspirant Huey Long said
fascism will arrive here “wrapped in the American flag.” In his book “Friendly Fascism”,
Bertram Gross described a slow, powerful, “drift toward greater
concentration of power and wealth in a repressive Big Business-Big
Government,” Big Brother alliance.
