The purge continues.
The Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube on Tuesday placed a temporary suspension on President Donald Trump’s account, preventing the president from uploading new content for a week.
“After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies,” YouTube said in a statement Tuesday night.
“It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days,” the company continued.
If a content creator gets three “strikes” within a 90-day period, his or her channel will be permanently banned from the platform.
“Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section,” YouTube added.
This comes amid the effort by various social-media companies to censor or ban the president on grounds that his words “incite violence,” a claim allegedly evidenced by the march on Congress last week, in which a crowd entered into the Capitol Building without authorization.
Following those events, the social-media platforms Facebook, Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), and Twitter banned President Trump.
The suppression of the sitting American president prompted major migration of users to the free speech-focused Parler, but within a few hours, Google (which developed the Android smartphone operation system) and Apple banned Parler from their app stores, making it harder for people to access it on their phones.
Of course, users could still find Parler on their smartphone or computer browsers, but then Amazon, whose hosting services Parler was using, cut the alternative platform off, knocking it offline until the company can find a new host.
Another tech firm to abruptly end its relationship with the president over last week’s events at the Capitol is Stripe, one of the most popular online payment-processing platforms.
Stripe’s decision to blacklist the Trump campaign means the president’s team is unable to accept credit-card donations.
Similarly, Shopify, the online platform being used by TrumpStore.com, which is run by the Trump campaign and Trump Organization, terminated access by the president’s team.
“Shopify does not tolerate actions that incite violence. Based on recent events, we have determined that the actions by President Donald J. Trump violate our Acceptable Use Policy, which prohibits promotion or support of organizations, platforms or people that threaten or condone violence to further a cause. As a result, we have terminated stores affiliated with President Trump,” Shopify said in a statement.
For the global elites, everything is marching according to plan. They control Big Tech and are now unleashing the full capacity for social control for which they invested billions of dollars.
While these widely influential platforms purge the president and his supporters, making the diffusion of truth more challenging, the leftist media is cheering.
The outlet Axios best articulated the goal of the left (albeit in glowing terms) by calling leftist corporations, particularly Big Tech, a “4th branch of government” more efficient and powerful than the White House or Congress.
This is a perilous moment for freedom of speech, and not only in the sphere of social media. The establishment has shown that they are willing to use whatever industry they control to silence political dissidents. Are you guilty of “right-wing hate speech?” The major social-media sites will ban you. The major telecom firms will take down your websites. Soon all the major banks will shut down your account, and even if you use a local credit union, Visa and Mastercard will blacklist you so you can’t use cards.
Sadly, most major corporations in every industry, certainly nearly all the multinational conglomerates, work with the global elites because they became successful thanks to the investment of older generations of globalists.
Companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google didn’t get big in a vacuum, but they received several rounds of capital investment prior to going public. The establishment wouldn’t have given them that money if they weren’t assured the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey would bow before the globalist agenda once rising to prominence.
Nevertheless, patriots must continue to create their own communications platforms if they wish to be free from the influence of the establishment. That includes using their own servers so they can’t so easily be taken offline. And even if the social-media options run out, patriots can count on sites such as The New American to continually have truthful reporting on what’s happening in the country.
We cannot give up; winning the information war is crucial to winning the war for America.
