The rise of the thought police!

Now that there will be no repercussions from a Biden DOJ social media has openly started censoring for political reasons. Illegal? Yes. Will they be held accountable? Probably not.

I lost almost 2000 followers in the past couple of hours. https://t.co/fZnMYkoPsL

— C.H. Truth (@C_H_Truth) January 9, 2021

After an entire spring, summer, and fall of liberal violence cheered on by liberal elites in politics, the media, and in corporate America... suddenly one riot is being used as an excuse to ban, censor, and otherwise play thought police on the American public. Tucker Carlson and others called this and said it was coming.

Not in my America, I thought to myself. We have a constitution, protections, etc... but I guess not. 

My twitter account is not just down 2000 followers, but as of this morning I am down to under 6900 followers when I used to (at my peak) have nearly 11,000. More to the point, I continue to garner "new" followers every day (89 followed me just yesterday) which means that we are looking at likely way more than half of followers I have had overall have now been downright deleted. It has been a battle of new followers competing with suspensions, bans, and outright deletions for months. My followers list has been slowly losing that battle.

But yesterday they dropped the nuclear bomb. No question about it. If you believe for a second that this is for any other reason than they believe they can get away with it because the Biden Administration will do nothing, then I have a bridge to sell you. They have been doing this around the edges for months and looking for an excuse to drop the big one.

As you can see, I had well over 9000 followers yesterday, and zero new "unfollows". The zero "unfollowers" is interesting because "suspended" accounts will show as unfollowed. I generally get about a dozen or so suspended accounts showing as unfollowed. I generally spot check them and will almost never find anything that appears out of line. But in this case, these thousands of accounts were not suspended, but actually deleted. They are not even showing as ever existing. I am not sure how the tool will account for it when later today it updates my amount of followers. 

Google and Apple conspire to take down alternative to Twitter

So what is going to happen? People will move to Parler, which is a slightly less robust, but much less restricted public forum that is made up of mostly conservatives who have been getting fed up with Twitter. 

However, both Google Play and the Apple stores are suspending or deleting the ability to download Parler. The suspension from Google was without warning. Apple provided Parler 24 hours to set in place a policy to "restrict" more content (one would assume in the same manner that Twitter does) or be stricken from their store. You can still obviously get to Parler via a browser and download the app in other manners, but not being able to do it from one of the major "stores" is an attempt to prevent it.

Legal experts have already concluded that this will be seen as a clear violation of anti-trust acts as it works all together to keep Twitter as the only holder of a platform that they have no legal copyright for. Twitter can run their platform as they want, but big tech has no right to tell Parlor to follow Twitter's lead. This is exactly how you create a "monopoly" in an artificial manner, which of course is the very definition of anti-trust. Obviously the Biden administration will have no interest in pursuing this (even as it is the most blatant action we have probably ever seen) - but Parler and others will have standing to sue. 

Oh, and btw... they have permanently banned Trump, Rush, and several other prominent conservatives (update: Rush pulled his own account from Twitter)

From what I understand, this just didn't involve the sort of random American followers who would follow my account, but this is affecting the conservative elites. As pointed out by some, there is no indication that some of these conservative did "anything" that could be considered inciting a riot. But apparently spending too much time demanding that an election was unfair (you know like in 2016) is akin to incitement. 

Is this what America has come to?

The issue here isn't that this has been done. We all sort of expected that it would happen to some degree (just not this degree and this obviously). The hypocrisy of applying two sets of rules (one for liberals and one for conservatives) not only on social media, but on google and apple applications as well is alarming. If you don't find it alarming, then you and I live in an entirely different world.