This Should Worry All Of Us

I am personally no big fan of Alex Jones and I have never been.

If you are not clued up with what is going on let me fill you in, so on Monday Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify all decided to ban Alex Jones from their platforms, and their reasoning was that he violated their hate speech terms. This was what someone from Facebook said, “More content from the same pages has been reported to us – upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.” They did not specify what exactly he said or exactly was shown, only that other people didn't like it. Did he refer to illegal immigrants as illegal, because that is apparently not allowed to be said anymore, did he refer to the religion of Islam as not a religion of peace, because that too is considered hate speech these days.

"People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning." - John Ralston Saul

I don't like Alex Jones very much, but I don't believe anyone should be censored for sharing their opinions. These kinds of bans and censorship only seems to be happening to those who appose this collective ideology. We see outright racist articles against white people, sexist hashtags against men all over twitter, persecution of Christians, this is the socially accepted narrative that the left spew each and every day, but somehow this is not considered hate. I watched a video of a conservative black women, Candace Owens being chased out of a restaurant and being called a white supremacist, by leftist activists yesterday. The same side was doing that not so long ago, when they didn't want people of a certain colour is places. How will history remember these people when we look back 50 years from now? This is the same mentality of indoctrinated people who were calling for people to be hanged because of the colour of their skin.

We need to defend the rights of even those who we do not agree with.

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence." - Charles Bukowski