Big Tech Censorship Is Taking Our Freedom

BIG TECH CENSORSHIP IS TAKING OUR FREEDOM<br /><br />Big tech announced a coordinated plan yesterday to use a centralized database to flag and ban "extremist content" across all social media platforms. <br /><br />Back up: The database is called the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). It was originally created in 2017 to collect data on foreign terrorists like ISIS and al-Qaeda.<br /><br />GIFCT members include: Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Dropbox, and more.<br /><br />GIFCT announced yesterday that it would be expanding its scope to now target American citizens that share material from white supremacists and far-right militias.<br />The group's Executive Director Nicholas Rasmussen said they expanded their scope to target "far-right or racially motivated violent extremism."<br />Suspicious timing: This announcement comes two weeks after the White House [via the Press Secretary] suggested to Big Tech: "You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others."<br /><br />The real talk: None of us support white supremacists or domestic terrorists. But we now live in an age where big tech applies broad-stroke labels to voices it disagrees with in order to censor and ban them. <br /><br />The NY Post was banned for spreading "misinformation" when it posted Hunter Biden's real e-mails. <br />People were banned last year for saying that Covid leaked from the Wuhan lab.<br /><br />It's not an unreasonable stretch to fear that these companies will abuse and contort what it considers an "extremist" position in order to ban conservatives across all platforms.<br /><br />But That is Not All of It<br /><br />PayPal "teams up" with the Jewish NGO Anti-Defamation League to "uncover and disrupt the financial pipelines that support extremist and hate movements," according to a joint statement.<br /><br />The "initiative" will focus on white supremacists and "those propagating and profiting from antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti