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If tech feudal lords and oligarchs can decide which sovereign has a voice and platform, then sovereignty is meaningless. Europeans must take note.
By Sumantra Maitra
Whatever the result of the massive Twitter purge, it made one thing clear to the world. Carl Schmitt’s most important and controversial aphorism, “sovereign is he who decides the exception” is still timeless.

In the American republic, the sovereign is not the state, which has hollowed out. The sovereign now is the group of neo-feudal oligarchs, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Facebook, who now decide and control who can speak, see, learn, and buy, and what and when. Give them an army of their own like the East India Company, and the American state is over. //

The hypocrisy here is the establishment of a new hierarchy and power structure. Twitter is doing what it can, not what it cannot. Tech companies can go against Western conservatives because they are not afraid of Western conservatives. They have realized that, due to their ideology and free-market dogma, modern conservatives are impotent about using the state or power.

Twitter cannot do that with China or Antifa, because there will be real consequences in terms of their revenue or street violence. In other words, tech companies are afraid of state power in some countries (China, Russia) and not in others (the free-market United States). The principle of power remains the same. As Phillippe Lemoine said, “Twitter banned Trump because it could and that’s all there is to it. At least the Athenians were honest with the Melians before they destroyed them.” //

No wonder China, Russia, the European Union, and India are trying to control their internet. Their sovereignty is in question if tech oligarchs decide who can speak and who cannot. And the Chinese are happy to rub it in that at least in China, the state remains supreme to a bunch of feudal lords arbitrarily deciding rules. //

The tech-lash censoring of the president and a bunch of conservatives is similar to the king realizing during Magna Carta that it’s the feudal lords who hold real power, not him. It is the duty of historians to add that conservatives have only themselves to blame if they lose the war with the tech neo-feudalists.

They had years to break up monopolies. They didn’t. Vae Victis. The coming consequences will be severe.

it is worth noting that the Democrats will also use impeachment to distract from the other parts of their agenda. They aren’t just using this process as a political attack, they will also use it as a smokescreen, a red herring designed to distract from their pursuit of policies that will further strengthen the government.

Facebook, MailChimp, and Constant Contact have all banned the group from using their services. Parler has been banned from all of the major app stores, and now faces extinction from Amazon. Are these actions coordinated? Absolutely and without question. This is actual fascism. Again, the definitions have changed.

And is it “violence” from the right which they fear? No. It is the violence from the left if they do not do it, which they do. Cancel culture’s ugly start has come to its inevitable fascist evolutionary jump; to full-on control. Businesses didn’t board up around the country based upon a threat of a Biden win, but fear of the left’s reaction of a Trump victory. Similarly, the Big Tech Left isn’t doing this solely out of their fear of the right, but rather their fear of the survival of the left should they not take this action. //

We will survive this purge, and when we do, we will be stronger for it. The left, however, is scared and rightfully so. Their efforts to destroy the heart of America have failed. They have awakened the American spirit, and their best efforts to silence it have failed. They’ve brought us to this point and are now demanding that we change to fit their new definition. I don’t think so. In our world, the sky is still blue, and the Constitution still protects us from them. We aren’t a threat to them unless they make us so. We aren’t their enemy unless they make us so. If anything, the soul of America is coming, and if they decide to define that as a threat, so be it.

GOP elected officials have now faced the reality that Big Tech wants the GOP to cease being an effective political opposition. Big Tech actively suppressed true and significant facts in the NY Post story on Hunter Biden, and at the same time willingly hosted and promoted fascist rhetoric and calls to violence by groups like BLM and Antifa with no content controls It is unequivocally a threat to the GOP as a political opposition to the Democrats which Big Tech supports.

Barack Obama needed the cover of darkness, a weekend, and a congressional procedural maneuver using a budget reconciliation bill to pass Obamacare on a party-line vote when he had 59 Senators and a 79 seat majority in the House.

Big Tech is now in the position of relying on the Democrats in Congress for protection when they have a 50 senators and a 10 seat majority in the House, all while staring at a mid-term election which history says will be won by GOP candidates in greater numbers than the outcome two months ago.

All of that may not matter ultimately, as the Supreme Court could get there first.

deornwulf
6 hours ago
When historians examine the events of Wednesday, January 6, 2021, they will not come to the same politically motivated conclusions that have been bandied about by political hacks, pundits, or other popular propagandists. They will not call the event an insurrection, sedition, or even much of a riot because there are some inconvenient facts that do not support that conclusion. Those facts are based on simple numbers.

The first thing a historian will do is to look at the numbers related to the event, such as the cost of repairing any damage that was done. Those numbers will show the actions of prior recent incidents to be far more costly to fix than what happened on that Wednesday. Court documents will then be examined to see exactly with what crimes were people charged. So far, there have not been any charges of insurrection or sedition. Without supporting court action, a historian will conclude that the accusations were nothing more than political theatre.

Another source of information for historians will be the insurance claims. Records of payments or of declarations of exclusions will be examined to see if any claim by any individual was excluded. Contrary to popular belief, declarations by politicians or media personalities do not determine if an event is legally considered an insurrection. Such determinations require a great deal more and include judicial action.

Death records, specifically “Cause of Death” certificates, will also be scrutinized by future historians. According to the latest information on the event, one unarmed woman was shot and killed from behind by a police officer, three as of yet unnamed individuals died from “medical emergencies” (one of which may have been from being trampled during the panic caused by the tear gas deployed by the Capitol Police) one police officer committed suicide, and a police office suffered a stroke after returning to his desk. The cause of the last death is still under investigation but there have been plenty of unfounded rumors circulated by the media to further their narrative.

Last, historians will examine all video footage of the event along with any written records. Serious research will not stop at a single image to make conclusions. Instead, every image and every video will be closely examined to put the contents into perspective. The clever cropping and framing being used to push narratives will be cast aside. Time stamps on videos will be used to create a timeline of the event. Images and video of other events of the time will be compared to this one to aid in determining what actually happened versus what the propaganda narratives are claiming happened.

Over time, the facts of Wednesday’s events will tell a far different story to future historians from the propaganda and soundbites being pushed around by those pushing a political agenda. One must decide if one is going to be on the side of history or join in the chorus of hyperbole and kabuki political theatre.

Kelley Paul
@KelleyAshbyPaul
Hey @jack , remember how for the last three years you have allowed thousands of hateful tweets celebrating my husband’s assault and encouraging more violence against him? I do.
1:10 PM · Jan 10, 2021

ELIJAH SCHAFFER
@ElijahSchaffer
Just a reminder that almost every violent BLM/Antifa riot in 2020 was organized on this platform

Dozens of people murdered, cops badly injured, billions of $ in property damage, horrible terrorist attacks like Kenosha

All organized on Twitter. No participants suspended.
12:17 PM · Jan 10, 2021

The Federalist
@FDRLST
FLASHBACK: Just Months Ago, Democrats Blocked a Resolution Condemning Mob Violence
Months Ago, Democrats Blocked a Resolution Condemning Mob Violence
thefederalist.com
8:28 AM · Jan 10, 2021

TSquared
an hour ago edited

Agree totally with this article. And yes let's all condemn the violence as we crawl over each other to be the one t0 reach the highest pinnacle of the moral high ground. But let us also remember...

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "

When/if the day comes that the governed attempt to revoke it's consent - in what form do you expect that to happen? What did it look like when the governed in this country revoked it from King George?

"And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. " - Thomas Jefferson

Everybody rightfully wants to avoid violence. I think most sane people would prefer to return to some normalcy in this country and get on with just living their lives. But, you can't escape the notion that the day may come when it becomes necessary to spread some manure.

Section 230 even provides for a section regarding illegal activity on the internet. If the President made a specific threat, which is an illegal action, that could have been turned over to law enforcement for investigation and prosecution. The problem is that the social media companies are defining what is a threat, and simply state they perceive Trump’s rhetoric to be so, not that it actually qualifies as such. This also is another example of editorial control, as they have redefined, beyond the legal definition that could be prosecuted, what a threat is. Again, this sets up these companies from self-denial of the protections contained in Section 230.

In fact, Section 230 states that the goal is “to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal and State regulation. Now, these companies want to argue that although they are free of Federal and State regulation, they are free to regulate their own services as they see fit, essentially rendering those services outside of the free market. When Amazon unilaterally decides that Parler is not entitled to the protections from Section 230, but they are in denying Parler those same protections, they are in a way, invalidating their own access to the protections. Sure they are free to choose with whom they do business, but they cannot suggest that they are a part of a “vibrant and competitive free market” while denying services to a firm, which is also protected from liability within Section 230.

Is Parler not an “interactive computer service?” Are they not entitled to the protections of Section 230? If they are, and I want to be very thorough here, WHAT GIVES APPLE, GOOGLE, AMAZON, OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDER THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE THAT THEY NEED TO EDIT, DELETE OR OTHERWISE CONTROL THE CONTENT ON PARLER, WHEN THE STANDARD ISN’T THE SAME FOR OTHERS? Again, they want to be able to hide behind Section 230 protections to deny another company of their own right to Section 230 protections. It is certainly cowardice if not criminal.

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“Our pretensions to civilization have become very thin,” begins Hayward. “Political violence was legitimized last year and is spreading wildly now. “Might makes right” is clearly the only “principle” behind freedom of speech. That’s why Chinese Communists will never be censored by Big Tech.”

“When every “principle” becomes nothing but a ruthless exercise of power, it’s not surprising that a growing number of people conclude they must demonstrate some sort of power in order to be taken seriously,” he continued. “Violence is the crudest exercise of power.” //

John Hayward
@Doc_0
·
Jan 11, 2021

A well-run civilization makes it clear universally that violence is absolutely unacceptable. Giving free passes for irresponsible rhetoric and destruction to groups favored by the dominant political ideology of the State undermines that message.

We must also [give] people peaceable means of expressing themselves and controlling their own lives, to relieve the pressures that can lead to violent outbursts and other forms of lawlessness. The less healthy discourse and freedom of action you have, the more pressure builds up. //

People begin getting the idea that violence gets results and that the law won’t really touch those who do get violent. As a result, we slide back into barbarism. //

“A great deal of our society today boils down to anarchy and barbarism arrogantly disguising itself with the trappings of civilization,” tweeted Hayward. “That’s the key to understanding cancel culture and crybullies: they sanctify their lust for power by loudly claiming to be helpless victims.”

Just after sunset on Sunday, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury will have a rare triple conjunction, coming close together from our perspective. The trio will form a small, clear triangle low in the southwest sky with Jupiter sitting at the top of their planetary pyramid. The planets will actually be near each other each night from January 8 through January 11, but the tightest group will happen on January 10, per EarthSky. Though, you should look right away, because they won't stay above the horizon for long.

Looks like we could be witnessing the final hours of Parler:

“Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day”

“Matze conceded that the bans could put the company out of business”