Internet censorship

We live in a supposed “information age”.  But we cannot reliably assume that facts which should be in the public domain ARE in fact in the public domain.  We in fact live in an age where propaganda has never been easier, where covering up inconvenient truths under both an avalanche of irrelevancies and outright suppression of speech is child’s play.  You can never assume that among the myriads of facts you are presented with daily are contained those which are most relevant.  In point of fact, I would bet against it.

I am banned from most sites.  I just had a long series of comments removed–all of which had previously been approved by the censors–after I posted this:

Segregation also worked fine in the South. Why did we stop? It’s almost like respecting the right of people to be different is important. Of course, that would be crazy talk, wouldn’t it? Segregation, as we all know, was wrong because we were TOLD it was wrong. How else can anyone decide anything of a moral nature?

Other than individual conscience, I mean, which is not something one sees on the Left. You are literally incapable of grasping the concept of difference of conscience. You are so wedded to the idea of forcing your ideas on others BECAUSE YOU FEEL YOU ARE RIGHT that you cannot see the abuse of power it is enabling, and has already often enabled.

My point, lost on the censor, as indeed most subtle points will ALWAYS be lost on censors, which is why free nations do not have them, and why the 1st Amendment is the 1st Amendment, was that many things have been legal over the ages.  Many criminal practices have been enshrined in law.

The conversation was over the right of the State to force bakeries into bankruptcy, or bakers into jail, for refusing to bake cakes for homosexuals who are very intentionally attempting to distress, anger, and exercise emotional violence against them.  The argument made is that “gays are a protected group”.  Well the Klan was at one time a protected group.  Did that make abusing the law in their favor right then?  Of course not.  It was odious in the Jim Crow/Dixiecrat South, and it is odious now.

As importantly, the Left–and seemingly increasingly large numbers of alleged conservatives–seems to only care about things when it is TOLD to care about things.  Rape is a major problem when it is in the news, and not when they have moved on to something else.  Me, I move much slower.  If something is wrong now, then it is wrong in the future, and was wrong in the past.  You cannot say it is a horrible, major, must fix thing that rapes happen on college campuses, and simultaneously ignore the mass practice of sexual slavery–which includes the buying and selling of women and girls, certainly, but likely also boys and young men–in the Middle East. Or, as I say often, the acceptance of violence of all sorts, including sexual violence and gang rape, conducted with legal impunity against the Dalits of India.

If you only think something is wrong when someone tells you it is wrong, you have no conscience. You are not a morally sovereign individual.  You have become, already, a subject of Oceania.  That you have no good excuse, that many options were still available, makes you all the more contemptible.