Reblogged:Google “Censorship on the Internet”

[Michael J. Hurd Ph.D.]

Google seeks to limit online trolls who bully people into self-censorship.

“I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give hostile voices disproportionate weight… [we will] do everything we can to level the playing field,” said the president of a company, Jigsaw, that Google has hired to address the issue. Jigsaw argues that online trolls bully people into self-censoring their views, and that online speech must be moderated to ensure that nobody is silenced.

As a private company, Google is free to do whatever it wishes, so long as it doesn’t commit fraud. However, we all know there are no truly private companies in America, especially not any big ones. The government, via all its taxing, regulating, subsidizing and pull-peddling, has kept any business or corporation from ever being truly private. While big business has a bad name, most people – when they condemn “big business” – think it’s the accountability and competence of for-profit motives they’re condemning. In reality, it’s the government manipulation and control over profit motives that discourage so many so deeply, although they don’t quite know it.

Big companies, including even Google, are beholden to politicians, almost always on the Democratic-leftist-progressive side. (Or Republicans who act and vote like Democrats, so they’re all the same anyway.) When it comes time to defining who are the “bullies” and who are the “victims,” it’s not difficult to imagine which side Google will take. As pull-peddling Hillary Clinton prepares to step into the presidency with an air of entitlement not seen since Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution, the number and size of companies beholden to her political agenda will only strengthen.

By the same token, especially with very large and profitable companies like Google and Facebook, politicians are, to some extent, beholden to them, primarily for donations. For whatever reasons, big companies tend to lean socialist and progressive. Mark Zuckerberg, a card carrying progressive/socialist/pro-Islamic zealot who makes no secret of this fact, is only the most visible example. Hence the marriage made in hell: Progressivism and business in contemporary corporate America. It’s also known as fascism. Progressives do not think of themselves as fascists, because they preach the virtues of tolerance and freedom while, in contradictory and Orwellian fashion, impose their policies through the ruthlessness of force and intimidation.

Breitbart points out that the technical system proposed by Jigsaw could easily be developed by tyrannical regimes overseas to detect populist uprisings within its online borders, especially after the U.N. takes control over the Internet (via ICANN) on October 1, as ordered by Obama.

In order to preserve any remnants of freedom of speech, we have to do two things. One, continue to uphold the First Amendment in a principled way. Only support candidates who will appoint/confirm judges or Justices that will do the same. Two, constantly make the case for separating business and government. We would not have to worry so much about leftist Google and leftist Facebook if government did not have the sway and pull over business it presently has. When government and politics mix, we get neither socialism nor capitalism. We get fascism. That’s what both Bernie Sanders on the left and Donald Trump on the right have been fighting against, even though (sadly) neither side endorses capitalism.

Capitalism is not what we have today. Capitalism is the social and economic system where all property is privately owned and run, and where all profits belong to the private parties who earn them. Government has no say, and never becomes involved, other than to settle contract disputes or allegations of fraud. Under capitalism, there would be nothing to fear from, say, a Hillary Clinton presidency, because there would be no favors to sell. (By the same token, a Donald Trump candidacy or presidency would never have arisen, because there would be nothing to rebel against.)

We don’t yet know for certain what freedom of speech will look like in an Internet world increasingly controlled by U.N., socialist and fascist governments. The sad truth we have to face is that America’s government is no longer the system of Madison and Jefferson. We are now, by and large, a fascist-lite nation, hurtling towards something much worse. It’s not difficult to imagine which policies and ideas our fascist government will condone. People with dissenting views had better brace themselves for the new normal, and be ready to fight many of the battles America’s founders once hoped would end with their times.

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