The Mark of the Beast: Social Media Training the World to Expect Punishment for Free Speech
“To still believe… that the facebook jails, YouTube strikes and Twitter suspensions of today are not already leading us to a time of social and economic shaming and eventual incarceration and starvation, is to be fatally, stupidly naive. We are being behaviorally conditioned to both expect and receive punishment for the words we speak and write. Manner and severity of that punishment, subject to change without notice.”–Shad Olson
While Christians fretted decades about implanted microchips and barcodes on foreheads and the burgeoning new horizon of neural networked hardware into brain and body, the social media tech giants of the world were patiently collecting our thoughts, cataloging our political opinions, hopes, dreams and fears, assigning and categorizing every human with an online identity into the giant seining net of ideological classification and nomenclature. Graded by level of passion and depth of commitment to idea and philosophy and even our potential susceptibility to rehabilitation and the adoption of alternate reality via reeducation. And we did it all for them. That work is done.Now, in the same span when a conservative online media mogul became just the first dissident exile to be purged from the platforms and distribution hubs that serve as the modern town square of the internet community, online payment systems, email service providers and even major credit card companies are doing the same. Not just to patriot firebrand and provocateur, Alex Jones, mind you, but to conservative think tanks and activist organizations fighting desperately against the exact brand of globalist despotism and centralized autocratic thought policing that is now being foisted in real time.
Doors to Digital Commerce Slammed Shut
The Freedom Center is the latest target of the Southern Poverty Law Center in their decades old, demonic, defamatory, distortion campaign against conservatives and patriots who oppose outright socialist collectivization of the United States. With a brutally simplistic strategy of intimidation, labeling and mass shaming, the SPLC labels a person or organization, a “hate speech.” They then set assiduously about the business of social and economic isolation of said organization by threatening boycott and defamatory destruction of any sponsor, corporation or service provider that facilitates operation or infrastructure of the blacklisted company or person. And the pressure works.
Southern Poverty Law Center’s War Against Free Speech
Just days earlier, under internal pressure from their employees and from Mastercard corporate, digital payment service provider, Patreon halted services to Alex Jones and to Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer, labeling both as “hate speech.” Mass emailing platform, Mail Chimp followed suit, canceling Jones’ account and scuttling his ability to interface with an email list of more than 11-million contacts. Doors to the digital marketplace of ideas and commerce, slammed and welded shut on grounds of ideological non-compliance. Chilling.Awaken sleeper and arise, to the reality that despite decades of talk about “hate speech,” “safe zones,” “sensitivity training,” and “snowflakes,” none of this broader cultural discussion about feelings and kindness and inclusion was ever really about making a more tolerant world, (ANTIFA?) or even about safeguarding the butterfly-winged fragility of the intractably dysfunctional millennial emotional palette.
“…that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,”
Revelation 13:17
“First they came for Alex Jones, but because I wasn’t Alex Jones, I remained silent….”
The Mark of the Beast is here.
The Unpersoning of a Dissident in Orwell’s Dystopic Masterpiece, 1984
