The Death Of The 1st Amendment
Because of our immersion into this 21st Century soundbite world, many today believe that the 1st Amendment in the United States is now under threat.
The truth is that it’s always been under threat by those in power, but efforts to circumvent our freedom of speech got big boosts in the 1970’s with the advent of the World Wide Web, or ‘internet’ for short. Its creation was an intelligence effort spearheaded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in concert with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and later the CIA and NSA.
The initial goal wasn’t so that you and I could show our cat pics, selfies, and spread fake news, but rather it’s goal was to handle huge data transfers for military, national intelligence agencies, and create an effective method for surveillance of the masses.
That’s it in a nutshell. There’s no shortage of documentation for anyone interested to see how this monster was created, nurtured, and developed into the sadistic outlier that it is today.
Fast forward to today.
This morning I noted an article about the CEO’s of Facebook, Google, and Twitter being slated to once again testify before a Senate Commerce Committee on October 28th, just five days prior to the election.
GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has called for the breakup of Facebook. It’s not the first time this call has been made. Even Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren has parroted similar demands along with other representatives on both sides of the aisle. If only it could or would happen.
The danger is in thinking that these rumblings of FINALLY taking a stand against the scourge of (un)social media is a good thing. They may simply be an election cycle smoke screen. My opinion is that there’s a pattern to all this double talk.
The previous two times that Zuckerberg has testified before Congress were in October 2018, and April 2018, BOTH times during an election cycle. I believe that this is nothing more than smoke and mirrors or a dog and pony show. Take your pick. But we plebeians are being led to believe that the government is looking after our best interests and the 1st Amendment by pointing fingers at the very (un)social media platforms that it uses to disseminate propaganda and misleading memes, especially during election cycles. Furthermore, these (un)social media platforms are the very ones that individual representatives use to spew their own policies and lies. At the cynical best it is a show of vote pandering by BOTH parties.
The fact of the matter is this: Google’s creation some 20+ years ago was the result of serious funding from the intelligence community to ultimately take control of the digital information network. It was, as described by former director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation, Jeff Nesbit, a deliberate creation of the the mass-surveillance state. That isn’t only Google, but other internet platforms as well.
This week we turn to Mark Zuckerberg and the evil (un)social media platform he and his cohorts created. Mr. Zee has been again exposed for the hypocritical tool that he is when it comes to allowing hate groups to continue their presence on Facebook, while at the same time using AI to monitor and shut down peons like me with censorship for innocuous comments on Facebook posts.
Yes, I was warned by the FB police in August that a comment I wrote on a friend’s post were in violation of their policies against “hate speech.” I wrote an egregious response on a friend’s post, answering a question about whether restaurants were open here in the US. But Facebook’s sanctimonious AI programs picked-up on the words “American” and “idiots” in the same sentence. Lord have mercy.
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When another box popped up allowing me to dispute the warning, I did so, and their final answer was an instantaneous pop-up again, saying that their first decision would stand. I knew it was a computer generated process, but the idiocy of it all made my blood boil.
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The hypocrisy of Zuckerberg’s views, and his comical attempt to be simultaneously sanctimonious and ignorant about hate groups on Facebook - And this week’s governmental bullshit about breaking up the (un)social media platform - all combine to make me want have a Howard Beale moment.
Icing on the cake is this quote by Zuckerberg during a speech On October 19, 2019 at Georgetown University: “As a principle, in a democracy, I believe people should decide what is credible, not tech companies.” He’s either a cunning liar, ignorant, or both.
Everyone should be aware that the 1st Amendment of our Constitution is being used as a political tool that has NOTHING to do with yours or my exercise of free speech. It is being tossed around by corrupt politicians and their butt boys like Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai to dismantle actual free speech and further the agendas of the mass surveillance state and Marxist organizations such as BLM that will keep the masses - us - properly censored and in our places. It will also preserve the billionaire status of those CEO’s so that they may continue doing the government’s divisive activities on (un)social media that help keep them in power.
The death of free speech is written on the faces of Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Marxists, and all of the billionaires of our insidious (un)social media world. Enjoy what we have of it while you can, before you’re damned by the wrath of an AI despot.
The death of free speech is also plastered on the face of Facebook’s own Col. Data who’s playing the testimony game to his best advantage, but to the public’s detriment. At some point, the 1st Amendment may become nothing more than an illusion, and one that most Americans will not even be able or intelligent enough to see.
©️Rick Burnett Baker
October 18, 2020
Rochester, New York
