Via Legal Insurrection and various readers who sent links.
I guess most of you may have already heard about The Conservative Treehouse being told they will be evicted from their webhosting service. Well, add to that new movement email service Mailchimp who now has refused to provide service to the Northern Virginia Tea Party.
Add to that the actions of Facebook and Twitter silencing accounts of people they do not like politically, Online fundraising playing favorites and politics and we have one sad reality: The Internet is now controlled by people who hate our side and took their time encroaching the means of service. The Internet, the new Media is now acting like the Old Media and with much more effectiveness.
They are expecting and betting that the electoral “result” will not be changed and the new executive power will reward those who helped them by not only not coming down on their business, but even protecting them from any potential violations of intellectual property and private communications.
If the Senate falls, before the end of 2022 we will have a SCOTUS decision favoring the creation and enforcement of Hate Speech Laws which will dutifully be celebrated by POTUS #47 and assorted Federal Law Enforcement agencies.
It can get worse. Remember Gab’s problems? Some of the Big Players (Google, as I recall, and maybe Facebook, and others?) applied pressure to providers of hosting, name hosting, and bandwidth, in an obviously coordinated attempt to deny Internet access to the upstart.
How this didn’t result in prosecutions under antitrust and/or conspiracy laws eludes me. Oh, wait, it doesn’t. Their side can violate the laws with impunity.
And we have a winner!
It should at the least result in tortious interference lawsuits.
We need to turn this back on them. Revisit the infamous ‘bake me a cake’ cases and straight up say ‘if it’s legal to deplatform these people, then this person most certainly has the right to not bake you a cake’.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and their little heads will pop from the dissonance.
I wish, but as far as they’re concerned the beliefs they hold are right and correct, and anyone holding different ones must be punished.
Not like we’ve ever seen that type of thinking ever bite somebody in the ass…
That won’t change their minds — they had no issue with Muslim bakeries saying they wouldn’t bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Ah, but that was only illegal of the baker because sexual orientation is a Protected Class. If he had given any other reason for refusing to serve them, it would have been perfectly legal. Politics is not a protected class, even though the two are often the same thing. Try to fight against a gay or non-white person because you disagree with their politics or behavior, you WILL get accused of racism, ’cause minority. But for leftists to discriminate against conservatives, even if they are more likely to be white, is perfectly legal.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
I am being reminded of this CS Lewis quote more and more often lately.
As you know from yesterday, they’ve deplatformed my live stream on Farcebook. We had to go on via Ian’s from MY location and it worked fine.
Which eventually will also be deplatformed. We gotta figure an alternative