11-02-2022, 09:30 AM
There have always been screamers trying to get attention. It typically turns out they are just trying to validate themselves or maybe even profit. They still scream. It's not a question of whether their screaming includes any truth or facts, only that they scream for all the wrong reasons. They seldom care a whit about the message itself.
I've received some private communications (from outside our circle of fellowship) indicating that our current alarms are just more of the same screaming. That is partially true. But when people who aren't screamers start sounding alarms, it should mean something different.
The people who built the Internet, and those who keep it going today, are warning that censorship is now raining down on the Net. One by one, services that have been content neutral are made illegal. Rumble (a video service competing with YouTube) is now inaccessible in France. The EU has warned Musk that Twitter must keep some of their previous censorship, or they will block the service across Europe as a whole. Those are just examples.
What China did with it's Great Firewall has been embraced in Europe and other parts of Asia. Until recently, US law didn't allow it to happen here. Then, during the COVID-19 scare, it began happening secretly, with collusion between Big Tech and government agencies that suffer no accountability to the people. There are court cases dealing with this right now, and we should expect no good results coming from them, given how other forms of censorship have been approved by judges.
The controls are already in place. The only thing standing between this forum and censorship is whether anyone with power bothers to notice.
I've received some private communications (from outside our circle of fellowship) indicating that our current alarms are just more of the same screaming. That is partially true. But when people who aren't screamers start sounding alarms, it should mean something different.
The people who built the Internet, and those who keep it going today, are warning that censorship is now raining down on the Net. One by one, services that have been content neutral are made illegal. Rumble (a video service competing with YouTube) is now inaccessible in France. The EU has warned Musk that Twitter must keep some of their previous censorship, or they will block the service across Europe as a whole. Those are just examples.
What China did with it's Great Firewall has been embraced in Europe and other parts of Asia. Until recently, US law didn't allow it to happen here. Then, during the COVID-19 scare, it began happening secretly, with collusion between Big Tech and government agencies that suffer no accountability to the people. There are court cases dealing with this right now, and we should expect no good results coming from them, given how other forms of censorship have been approved by judges.
The controls are already in place. The only thing standing between this forum and censorship is whether anyone with power bothers to notice.