One benefit of the government’s COVID-19 lockdown madness is the mass realization among the public that censorship, in the 1st-Amendment-violating meaning of the word, is a serious concern.
We witnessed how the government colluded with the news media and social media companies to try to silence voices who told the truth so that official disinformation could be propagated without intellectual contest.
The authoritarianism was so bad that the government actually declared for itself the authority to declare by fiat which means of making a living were considered “essential” or not.
So, if you were not making a living by doing something that the government considered “essential”, your means of putting food on your family’s table were denied to you.
Nothing personal, you just didn’t matter; and, anyways, government bureaucrats know better than you do what is in your own personal best interests.
Then there is how the government colluded with social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, which in turn colluded with the mainstream media’s faux “fact checkers”, to censor those of us who spoke out against the lockdowns and their coerced mass vaccination endgame while themselves propagating government-approved disinformation, including their efforts to manufacture consent for uptake experimental COVID-19 vaccines by systematically lying to the public about their effectiveness along with pretty much everything else Covid-related.
I was banned from LinkedIn, for example, for accurately reporting how the CDC’s August 2021 claim that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines conferred better protection against SARS-CoV-2 than natural immunity was contradicted at the time by virtually all the non-CDC-originating medical literature and was later falsified by the CDC’s own data as reported by its own researchers in its own MMWR journal.
As another example, after regaining my account, I had a post removed by LinkedIn for accurately reporting on the discovery of DNA contamination in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
And now the Biden administration aims to effectively do away with freelance work — including truly independent journalism — by following California’s lead in imposing regulations to “protect” freelancers (a.k.a. independent contractors) from their own desire to remain self-employed.
John Stossel has the story:
