Wednesday, December 23, 2020

There's a term for someone who relies on Big Tech's streaming services, cloud storage and the like.

That term is "idiot."

To wit: Bob Dylan's pro-Israel "Neighborhood Bully" is nowhere to be found on Youtube.

It's "hate speech" for the tech platform's Committee of Public Safety--and they never explain themselves.

The gatekeepers insist you follow their "Everything that is not mandatory is forbidden" policies to the letter--especially when they don't spell it out. But I suppose they don't have to--the left has made it pretty clear where Jews can expect to stand in the future. 

Not that it stops Jewish voters from pulling the lever for the parties of the left, but what can you do?

And another part of the endgame is obvious:

But the censorship is not ultimately the point. A platform like YouTube is not just a “content provider,” like a digital jukebox. It’s not an artist, which can choose which versions of which songs it chooses to make available to whom and when. It’s a ledger, on which the shared events and references that together add up to something like a social or cultural whole are recorded. Instantaneously altering that shared database based on nothing more than the half-formed political whims of whatever cadre of censors has been appointed to control the “hate speech” algorithms is the first step to controlling memory itself. I see it, and it scares me.

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