Conservatism Inc. Finally Admits Patriots Are Being Deplatformed, Attacked. So What Is It Going To DO?
Article publisher:
VDare
Article date:
28 February 2019
Article category:
Our American Future
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Article Body:
... Double standards are nothing new. Complaining about them is likely to be as ineffective as President Trump’s constant griping that the media is “unfair.”
The real question centers around power and its true nature. President Trump is supposedly “in power,” but the 2016 victory has proved nothing short of a disaster for ordinary patriots. A wave of deplatforming, Antifa attacks, and media doxxng operations has followed, with essentially no pushback from the Establishment Right.
This Corporate Cultural Marxism has now reached the First Family itself. Donald Trump Jr. was recently censored by Instagram, as was RNC spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany....
... the campaign is accelerating. On Tuesday, two more major conservative figures deplatformed. Anti-Islamization activist Tommy Robinson was kicked off Facebook only days after exposing that the BBC worked with antifa activists at HOPE Not Hate to create a “Tommy Takedown”...
Conservatism Inc. now at least recognizes deplatforming is an issue. Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union recently announced that a slot at CPAC will feature Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who “will talk about the growing concerns around big tech companies and what Congress needs to do about it.” Hawley has questioned whether large tech companies should continue to benefit from the Section 230 protection in the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which protects social media platforms from being sued for user content.
Yet the ironic result of taking away this protection could be the destruction of small internet startups, ensuring that Facebook, Twitter and other large companies are the only ones who can maintain a large user base...
The larger problem: Conservatism Inc.’s dogma is preventing it from doing anything productive. There are two critical issues.
Conservatism Inc. won’t defend its own;
It won’t attack corporate power, even when that power is used in service of the Left....
There is a time limit to all this. Like Tucker Carlson said in his monologue about online free speech [below], the Left is determined to prevent anything like the viral nature of President Trump’s 2016 election victory from happening again.
Without real action, not just talk, there is no chance President Trump will even come close in 2020.
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