Large internet monopolies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter have committed themselves to censorship of ideas and views they don't like but the purge isn't stopping there. Sites like Paypal, Pareton, and ISPs are joining into the purge as well.
When a neo-Nazi psychopath plowed his car into a crowd of Leftist protesters in Charlottesville, the Left saw a golden opportunity to use the moment as its Reichstag Fire, and indulge its increasingly obvious authoritarian tendencies. But when they came after Jihad Watch, they overreached.
On Saturday afternoon, the Soros-funded hard-Left website ProPublica published a hit piece calling upon PayPal and other new media giants to block Jihad Watch and other groups that have been defamed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as “hate groups.” ProPublica’s Lauren Kirchner complained that Jihad Watch’s “designation as a hate site hasn’t stopped tech companies — including PayPal, Amazon and Newsmax — from maintaining partnerships with Jihad Watch that help to sustain it financially. PayPal facilitates donations to the site. Newsmax — the online news network run by President Donald Trump’s close friend Chris Ruddy — pays Jihad Watch in return for users clicking on its headlines. Until recently, Amazon allowed Jihad Watch to participate in a program that promised a cut of any book sales that the site generated. All three companies have policies that say they don’t do business with hate groups.”
The Left media said “Jump,” and PayPal immediately said “How high?” Just hours after the ProPublica piece appeared, PayPal blocked Jihad Watch. I received an email early Saturday evening from PayPal’s Ronita Murray, saying: “Due to the nature of your activities, we have chosen to discontinue service to you in accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement.
As a result, we have placed a permanent limitation on your account.”
But after banning Jihad Watch, PayPal encountered a crowd of free citizens. PayPal was inundated with emails and tweets denouncing its ready capitulation to Leftist attempts to delegitimize and silence all dissent. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people canceled their PayPal accounts.
And so PayPal quickly came to realize that the power of the people is not vested solely in the Leftist thugs who assert themselves ever more aggressively on America’s streets. PayPal discovered that America is still full of patriots who don’t wish to accept the Left’s lie that opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression constitutes “Islamophobia,” which is worse than jihad terror itself. What made Jihad Watch no longer a “hate site”? The voices of free people.
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This however is only a small part of the problem, leftists are using the subjective term of 'hate speech' to mass censor and silence any opinions they don't agree with. From silencing the individuals, pulling down websites they don't like, and going as far to go after the financial institutions to get them banned from receiving funds as well, they is clearly no line the authoritarians of group think won't go to snuff non progressive viewpoints. China works directly with media giants such as Apple and Google to mute their population and i'm afraid the same is coming here to the USA as clearly people see no problem with a handful of corporations controlling what the masses can see and think.
I believe in 5 years, the internet as we know it will be similar to China's top down authoritarian control.
