Having warned ** since the 1980s about the rise of State corporatism of left and right in Europe (the classic unholy alliance which leads to Fascism and Nazism) we now see in US vote rigging and censorship of opponents the full proof of this political coup d’etat. The left has always driven fascism politically and on the streets while combining with right wing authoritarian corporations who possess the industrial and economic power. Both have used State power and supine (or politically controlled) legal systems to crush democracy (today as in the 1930s).
Neither permits the power of voters either through their economic choices or employment rewards nor in their choice between democratic alternatives. The corporate media now even censor or cancel them. Left and right wing parties are morphed into corporatist parties and business monopolies crush wages by free movement of labour and destroy democratic small businesses and investors through State lobbied legislation.
Nothing which has power is not corporate, be they big business, big Pharma, big government, State agencies, political parties, big banks (dependent on State money printing and regulation) corporate mass media, big techs and internet controllers. They all derive their money power from either collective funds (the people’s savings but not controlled by the people) or State funding. All tend towards and seek controlling power. The financial profit which they achieve through collaboration with the State is then used to buy direct political power over the people and any real democrat who might seek to represent them (fascists call them “populists”).
Nowhere is that clearer than in the USA today where Wall Street, the mass media and the corporate elites of left and right now conduct their rule of censorship, silencing a President and his associates who garnered (even in a rigged ballot) 75 million votes.
The corporations who now are extinguishing free speech and voter choice are the modern equivalents of the 1930s supporters of Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party and Benito Mussolini’s Italian Fascist Party. The imperial powers of Facebook, Apple, Twitter (who take down the opponents of leftist corporatism) and other big tech corporations are the modern equivalents of Krupp, Fiat, IG Farben (spied for Hitler abroad), Bertelsmann (printed Nazi propaganda) in Germany and the Nazi friendly US corporations Ford (Henry Ford donated to Hitler’s election fund) General Motors, Standard Oil and others.
In Britain the Confederation of British Industry which aided German industry up to the middle of 1939 (after the rise of Nazism, the march into the Rhineland, the Krystallnacht attack on the Jews, the Nuremberg Race Laws and the imprisonment of opponents) has today seemingly learned its lesson. Because there was a free and reasonably fair referendum and subsequent General Election with clear democratic results the power of the people forced them to accept a sovereign democratic Britain.
But in the USA the twisted politicised power of corporate and socialist America did not allow such a process in 2020 and the anti democratic powers got their way. Now they daily demonstrate their censoring fascist totalitarianism. It is not as if politicians were not warned – see the vicious attack on Trump by a director of Dominion Voting Machines (used in over 30 States) boasting before the election that he had “f……d Trump” http://freenations.net/the-stench-of-political-bigotry-and-software-designed-to-rig-elections/
Just as the Nazis’ business cartels and interlocking shareholdings meant a few points of political extremism could rule Germany so today we see a mass of interlocking tech corporations which give massive national and supranational power to a few businesses and their owners – specifically in the fields of presentation of politics, entertainment, home products and social and business communication on a vast scale.
Google owns:
Youtube (Naomi Seibt is aGerman internet influencer with her own popular YouTube channel – so popular, in fact, that the totalitarian censors at YouTube have shadow-banned her channel, cutting her potential income from it by nine-tenths
Google Nest (smart home products – security alarm systems, security cameras, Wifi routers, and home assistance devices.)
Google Ireland Ltd – Google Services Provider for Europe and Switzerland. To avoid taxes it books a lot of revenue, but makes very small profits, since it pays a lot to Google Netherlands BV for Google’s “intellectual property”. Google Netherlands BV then channels this revenue to Google Ireland Unlimited that is incorporated in Ireland but domiciled in Bermuda. In other words a gigantic corporate tax avoidance network!
Microsoft owns:
Bing (the main alternative to Google search engine)
Skype,
Yammer,
Linkedin,
Hotmail,
Facebook owns:
Instagram,
Whatsapp,
Facebook messenger, “It is not ok,” said Taha Yasseri, a senior research fellow in computation science at the Oxford Internet Institute. “One company owning four of the most popular social networking and communication apps, at best, can be described as a data monopoly.”
Twitter. over 300m users owns:
Periscope (live video streaming)
TellApart (digital advertising)
Magic Pony Technology (London)
Apple owns:
iTunes,
Safari web browser,
CEO Tim Cook said Apple acquires 2-3 cos a week!
AMAZON owns:
Amazon Web Services (took down Parler)
Kindle,
Audible,
LoveFilm (was UK)
Whole Foods Market organic foods supermarket (cost $13.7bn)
These extremely politicised tech companies have been able (under Section 230 Communications Decency Act) to publish and censor what they like – without being legally liable for their output as any normal publisher would be. They have published fake news, unbalanced news and taken down individuals and websites on political grounds. They have therefore abused this privilege and must be made so liable. Their dominance of the modern world of communication means they must be broken up.
THE TOTALITARIANS OF CORPORATIST RIGHT AND SOCIALIST LEFT
Nazism, Fascism, Communism and other dictatorships are rightly called “totalitarian” because they cannot accept any view, politics or even reality which does not conform with their own bigoted view of the world. Hitler expressed it in his “Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?” to which his fanatical followers replied “Sieg Heil”.
Today it is that obnoxious combination of right wing corporatism and left wing class war which has led to the silencing of any other political views (indeed of Democracy itself) – and the corporate and political controllers of the internet have had the power to do that.
In the legal sphere (especially in the USA where there has always been an unhealthy relationship between political votes and the law) totalitarians rig not only elections but the courts – so that even credible substantiated fraud charges cannot be adjudicated. The Nazis and communists had their openly political courts (People’s Courts as those socialists called them!) which were nothing but show trials.
THE TAKING DOWN OF A US PRESIDENT
The over mighty, arrogant imperialists of Twitter and Facebook have taken down Donald Trump’s posts or banned him for urging his followers to protest but have allowed free reign to far left and black racist groups to coordinate riots, burnings and killings throughout the USA. And the Washington Post has revealed that Facebook itself promoted the Trump Rally – and should by their own standards be banned from the internet! see:
Feinberg’s searches for the banned hashtag #StopTheSteal and the affiliated hashtags #DoNotCertify, #WildProtest and #FightForTrump on Facebook and Instagram as recently as Monday revealed hundreds of posts promoting the rally, according to a review by The Washington Post.
Some of that promotion included Instagram posts with detailed maps of the Capitol and a guide to the speakers there.
A meme posted on Facebook on Jan. 5 called for “Operation Occupy the Capitol” and promoted the hashtag #1776Rebel, according to a screenshot posted by Media Matters, referencing the year America freed itself from British rule. The post also included a quote from Abraham Lincoln: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.” –Washington Post
After Donald Trump tweeted these two posts:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
Trump’s account was removed from the platform. Twitter said that the two posts had violated its “Glorification of Violence policy,” which aims to “prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts.”
But the tweets did nothing of the sort. Trump told the protesters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” And note the weasel words “could inspire others to….violent acts”. In other words what a few criminals do by attaching themselves to your supporters (and the Capitol Hill demonstration was evidently infiltrated by the far left – see https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/who-helped-antifa-storm-the-capitol/) you are responsible for! In that case much of the Democrat Party is responsible for the looting burning and killing by left wing mobs in recent months.
Subsequently Trump in an address to the nation said:
“We have seen too many riots, too many mobs, too many acts of intimidation and destruction. It must stop. Whether you are on the right or on the left, a Democrat or a Republican, there is never a justification for violence. No excuses, no exceptions. America is a nation of laws. Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice.”
AS TWITTER WAS BANNING TRUMP, THE HASHTAG “HANG MIKE PENCE” WAS TRENDING ON TWITTER AND A CERTAIN DR REZA ASLAN WAS ABLE TO POST “If they even try to replace RBG (Red Black Green – a racist pan African movement) we burn the entire f…….. thing down”
THE BACKLASH AGAINST BIG MEDIA AND BIG TECH
It is no wonder there is a massive backlash against the blatantly totalitarian and anti democratic behaviour of Youtube (where there has long been political censorship and from which Google garners much personal data) Twitter and Facebook. For youtube alternatives see: https://nordvpn.com/blog/youtube-alternatives/
For Twitter there is Gab or Parler (I am on Parler when it comes back!).
For Facebook (which collects huge amounts of personal data from you) there is WT Social, EyeEm, Yubo, and for an alternative to Facebook’s WhatsApp there is Signal. The alternatives to Instagram are Tumblr or Snapchat.
Never in my lifetime has the democratic West been confronted by such blatantly totalitarian attacks on our countries, parliaments and voting systems. The people must fight back. These big techs must lose millions of customers. It is happening now. No need to rush – choose carefully…..
BUT YOU HAVE THE POWER
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