"The garbage party's only free speech advocate!"

Kurt Schlichter writes in Town Hall,

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls, who advocated a free and open internet when it was to their advantage, have found, to their horror, that Normal people could use it to make themselves heard about the utter failure of our betters at home and abroad. That’s why we have seen the elite’s 180-degree pivot toward censorship and thought control on the web. The progressives never believed in free speech except to the precise extent it was useful to them; the tech titans’ alleged libertarianism extended only as far as them not being held accountable to the people through the people’s government, and no further. Now that they are in power, well, free speech is suddenly very, very bad. People are saying things the elite dislikes. That’s not supposed to happen.

But it’s too late to shut us off from the web. Oh, they’ll try to stamp out the truth. They’ll demonetize Dennis Prager and bury search results for Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson, and they’ll try to hide the veritas of Project Veritas. But they did their internet building too well – the conservative samizdat will endure in the corners and shadows of the electronic frontier until such time as the politicians representing our interest get fully woke and take action to protect our rights. I look forward to the day when tech titans tremble in their Birkenstocks at hordes of eager attorneys suing them under new laws mandating algorithm transparency and non-discrimination on the basis of political views. I yearn to see them try to explain to the SJWs clamoring to ban some patriot who dares believe that no man can ever have a baby that “We can’t censor him! We’ll be dragged into court tomorrow and slammed for punitive damages!”

...The point of it all is that it’s not argument but intimidation. They can’t win an argument. They can’t win the votes, not in Europe or Asia or South America or here. The liberal elite has failed to provide prosperity for anyone but themselves. The liberal elite has failed to provide peace for anyone but themselves – you don’t see a lot of them in uniform in Whocaresistan fighting the wars Bill Kristol advocated and Joe Biden voted for. The liberal elite provides only a system of interlocking and self-reinforcing grievances in which you, the Normals, are perpetually the oppressors, yet you’re the only ones being oppressed. No one wants that, except the SJWs who find meaning in fussy social media hate-mobs, so they try to jam their garbage ideology down your throat by threatening to kick you off Twitter, or by making it so you lose your job, or by preventing you from going out and eating tacos in peace, or by calling you all sorts of names ending with -ist and -phobe.

These are not the actions of winners. These are the actions of losers who see their power slipping away and will do anything to keep it.

Anything.

Yes, including violence. Just last weekend, we saw conservative reporter Andy Ngo sent to the hospital after being attacked by leftist thugs. There was no outcry in the mainstream media over it just as there is no outcry over “deplatforming,” censorship and cultural intimidation. No Dem candidate condemned it except Andrew Yang – a suck-up to the Chinese commies is that garbage party’s only free speech advocate. Irony lives!

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