I have a slightly ( or radically ) different take on this issue:
To counter this monumental shift we have to look at it on the big scale and act big.
This recent censorship clampdown has been a kind of sleeper hiding away in the new-media infrastructure since the outset.
It's a continuation of a well established idea. Think back to when you first heard "Privatize profit and Nationalize losses". Yes it goes back a long way, stick with me here.
Google, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter are private companies. People argue that they have the right to do whatever the hell they like. Why were they ever given the chance to impose themselves so deeply into our modern system of living ? A while back I wrote to the BBC and asked them why they openly promote private companies like Facebook and Twitter, there are rules forbidding such promotions. I was replied to with a feeble waffle.
As we here all know, the privatisation of black project science is mainly about removing it from established civic accountability and oversight. It's a well used method of getting around a hundred years or more of hard fought for civil rights and very reasonable checks and balances.
Normal democratic government has done little or nothing in the field of critical infrastructure for several generations. They've left it all to private investment and management. They argue that it's the most economically sensible way to make progress.
Well, starting with a Search Engine, I think it can rightly be called vital infrastructure these days. We have to have one. It's as vital as an electricity supply and almost as vital as a water supply. In Britain, before the Thatcher revolution, water and electricity were provided by nationalised organisations with a massive amount of regulations to keep the services universally functional and fair. Even after privatisation, the regulations have remained quite tight. An electricity retail company cannot cut your supply because you are using most of it to grow hydroponic weed. What you are using it for is none of their business.
So, here we are. We've got to a point where the state has colluded with big finance and already privatised skullduggery to capture vital progressions in societal infrastructure. What can we do about it ?
All my attempts to think through any kind of nationalisation of these services or to create taxpayer funded replacements get nowhere as things currently stand so the only realistic way to go is to set up powerful effective regulation of these companies that's so tight their balls squeak. If they don't like it, they can leave the 'market', and take their balls with them too.
As much as I'm glad Trump beat the opposition to get to the presidency, I find it hard to imagine Trump coming up with what we need right now. Fair and tight regulation of all internet services, NOT paranoid political censorship. Regulation that holds the playing field for all users as perfectly flat as possible.
They've got us between a rock and a hard place. A national government can't act globally, but a global government could. See how they've got us ?
A flat playing field
Texas is a multiverse and a microcosm at the same time. Extremism of all kinds, in one place. This lady found one way to shine the light on ridiculousness! Lol