America’s Unthinkable Left Turn to Tyranny

By Professor Larry Bell February 8th, 2021

 

The unprecedented Twitter and Amazon “de-platforming” of President Donald Trump and his official White House account is egregiously appalling and menacing.  Never could I have imagined throughout my previous 82 years of marvelous American life experience ever to witness a time of such profanely disturbing attacks on foundational civil liberties and First Amendment rights.

How could it possibly happen for a duly elected standing leader of a land, which above all values freedom of belief and expression, to be denied those very rights by diktat of unelected media censors?   Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was on record audaciously telling his employees that banning the president of the United States’ account was just the beginning … a clear message that modern media moguls need answer to no higher power.

Who could have foreseen the immensity of unbridled control that has become vested in a handful of companies that can now refuse to provide services to absolutely any person or enterprise that depends upon access to an online, interconnected world … the communication backbone of all modern business transactions, advertising and political campaigning, and routine coordination with internal and external entities?

Against all American independent thought principles and free speech guarantees, Facebook and other media platforms have somehow come to wield final discretion through anonymous “fact-checkers” who determine what information is deemed “false,” or otherwise “disallowed.” Once “canceled,” an author source typically has little or no recourse for appeal...........To Read More....