American Thinker/ Colin Flaherty: Maybe someday the children of Silicon Valley will hear the same kind of stories Delaware kids used to hear about the DuPont family: how they built roads and schools and universities and became the world leader in what was then the world’s most important industry: chemicals.
Delaware’s hometown industrial giant owned large stakes in G.M., the Empire State Building, Broadway shows, Indian motorcycles, gunpowder, nylon, and lots of other expensive toys that fueled the industrial age. DuPont employed 12 percent of the workforce in Delaware.
But somewhere along the way, it all became too much: DuPont was charging too much for gunpowder and making too much money selling paint and fabrics to G.M. Finally, federal trust busters broke them up.
As kids, we never really knew why, other than that was just the natural order of things that governments did to rich and powerful and successful people – the kind who supplied the ammo and explosives to win two world wars.
Maybe there was some price-fixing, some collusion, some “nod, nod, wink, wink” kind of thing as well. Apparently, it was really, really bad, because that company received, in effect, if not the death penalty, then life without parole.
But whatever the DuPont family and their companies did with their economic power, they never dreamed of committing one tenth of the abuse we see every day from the hyper-monopolists at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, et al. These, even in the face of unprecedented corporate abuse, are untouched by cowering government regulators.
Republican leaders in Washington are finally starting to figure out what conservative publishers – big and small – have known for years: we are targets of banning and censorship based solely on our ideology.
All of this is made possible by the monopolistic powers of America’s biggest liberals, all while YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter deny it on one hand, then explain why it is necessary on the other.
Instead of listing all the conservative web and news sites that have seen their traffic and business slashed in half by the liberal-anarchist-socialist hive mind – including Breitbart, American Thinker, Alex Jones, Dennis Prager, Jared Taylor – it would be easier to say that no conservative publisher knows any conservative leader who has not been censored, banned, removed, or thwarted.
Everyone. All at great financial expense. more here
From the No shit Sherlock files
“Instead of listing all the conservative web and news sites that have seen their traffic and business slashed in half by the liberal-anarchist-socialist hive mind – including Breitbart, American Thinker, Alex Jones, Dennis Prager, Jared Taylor – it would be easier to say that no conservative publisher knows any conservative leader who has not been censored, banned, removed, or thwarted.”
And absolutely the establishment Republicans are complicit in the hands off policies toward these entities
Capitalism to destroy Capitalism; The irony of their suicide.
The Deplorable choir- MUTHER ZUCKER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVpbF55vvY
Speaking of Fakebook and google, too – something new I learned today – the NSA helped create them. Video with Kevin Shipp as speaker – very enlightening – scary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gbCJqejZQk
“But it is a private company and they can do whatever they want…” says half of iotw posters.
@Anon – I think they say that because like me, until today, I didn’t know that they were an NSA tool.
Actually, after seeing the Kevin Shipp video today, I can totally believe that the deep state, members of our own govt., set up the mass shooting at the Las Vegas country music concert as a terror attack against conservative Americans.
I often wonder why ant-trust laws aren’t invoked when dealing with AlphaBet.Inc (google). Here’s a link to the companies that they’ve bought and incorporated (or killed) over the years. It’s staggering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet
It also has a list of the other big players and how they’ve snapped up the market and squeezed out any others. I’m not a big believer in government intervention however anti-trust is one area where they need to be the sheriff.
Yet even knowing this, some of us still continue to feed the beast.