Daily Verse
Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:14

It’s Tuesday. I wonder if, in A.D. 1111, they thought, “The next time something like this happens will be in 2222”? That’s only 201 years from now.

After Fascistbook and Twitler permanently banned president Trump from their platforms for “inciting violence” while leaving alone the accounts of Chinese Communist Party and Iranian leaders—and also not banning BLM, antifa or the accounts of crazed Democrats who spew hate like Maxine Waters or Adam Schiff—and then Apple, Google and Amazon going after Parler—I decided that I could no longer in good conscience be a member of those communities.

I’ve been busy the last couple of days preparing to leave Fascistbook at the end of January. I have some mixed feelings because I have developed some new relationships there (and have actually met some of them in person after first meeting them online), it is a very user-friendly interface and, quite honestly, I’ve enjoyed the variety of conversations I can have there. It’s largely been a fun experience.

Leaving Twitler was easier, since I didn’t use it much. The only true problem leaving will cause is being unable to link to tweets in this blog. The Word Press templates offer a block that makes it super easy to embed a tweet—unless you don’t have an account. So I’ll either have to offer a screengrab of a tweet and/or wait until Word Press begins offering blocks that let me link to other social media services.

There are at least two main drivers for leaving these two social media platforms. The first and biggest is that they have assumed the role of content censors. Just think of it: they decided that they would deny the president of the United States’ access to not just millions of Americans on “both sides” of the aisle, but also to hundreds of millions more around the world. The president of the United States is the most powerful office in the world—and two unelected U.S. billionaire businessmen decided to kick him off their platforms.

The hubris is astonishing—unless you understand what is happening. In Frontpage Mag, Robert Spencer explains the similarities of the close relationship between the U.S. government and business to the Nazi regime of the 20th century.

This deal between Hitler and the German business titans was one of the principal reasons why his regime is called “fascist” at all. The word “fascist” comes from the Latin fasces, “bundles,” usually bundles of wooden rods. It might seem at first glance to be an odd name for a political movement, but the idea was that the disparate forces in society were bundled together in a unity of purpose and allegiance. Thus for the ancient Romans the fasces were a symbol of governmental authority, and from that Mussolini took the name of his movement. In ensuring that private businesses could remain private but had to work for the good of the state as a whole and under direction of the National Socialist government, Hitler was bundling together the titans of business, unifying them in service to his agenda.

So it is today. The social media giants and the Leftist government elites, the swamp that has reasserted its hegemony by installing Old Joe in the White House, are working in lockstep. The government doesn’t own the social media outlets, and it doesn’t have to: whether Big Tech is submitting to overall direction by the state or the state is submitting to overall direction by Big Tech, the outcome is the same: every major force in American society is marching in the same direction, while dissenters are stigmatized, demonized, framed for crimes they didn’t commit, silenced, and isolated.

The second reason for leaving follows from the first. Fascistbook and Twitler justified kicking Trump off of their platforms because they determined that he was “inciting violence.” If you read a transcript of Trump’s remarks, you will find nothing of the sort. Instead he said, “everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” which is what the majority of the crowd did.

You have to ask yourself, then, “How do Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg define ‘inciting violence’?” Given the twisting of language and meaning by cultural Marxists over the last several years, we wouldn’t be surprised if what they meant was that “patriotically” was code for “make America white again!” Their definition of “inciting violence” is based on their private standards, not on what the words have historically meant or how they are defined legally.

In other words, they determine what is True, even if it doesn’t match reality.

By participating on the platform, I am enabling their delusion. I am contributing to their power. They make money off of me; they have my data and they use it to get rich. The more users they have, the more money they make, the more power they acquire. I can no longer be part of it.

I realize that not everyone will agree with what I’m doing, especially those who see Facebook and Twitter as opportunities to stand for Truth. I have nothing bad to say about them. The Lord directs their consciences as he does mine. As Romans 14:4 says,

Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master, he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

I’m testing alternative sites including MeWe, Gab, Clouthub, SocialCross, Telegram and—uh—Parler (which I heard struck a deal with a hosting service yesterday). As I get set up and familiar with them and decide which will be my primary, I’ll let you know where I’ll be.

I realize that if we boycotted or dropped every company that did something we disagreed with, we’d eventually have nowhere to do business. Fortunately, there’s a long way to go before that happens. But even if we were at that point, we might need to make a principled stand.

Leaving Fascistbook and Twitler is one of mine.

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