So many stories are flooding the Alternative Media sphere (including here on Steemit) regarding the latest purge of Alex Jones and Infowars from the social media giants.
Yet nearly all of them fail to address the UNDERLYING CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM.
And this is the reason why this problem will not only persist and intensify, but also why many more liberties and freedoms will be taken away from people.
So what is the underlying cause of the problem?
Simple. In one word: ignorance.
I am talking about ignorance of the vast majority of Americans regarding something in their own Constitution called the First Amendment.
A recent article and video from Campus Reform entitled Millennials try to explain the First Amendment shows that the vast majority of students on college campuses haven't the faintest clue what freedoms they supposedly enjoy under the 1st Amendment.
Watch the following 4 minute clip which speaks volumes as to why things have devolved into this debacle and breakdown of society:
The Freedom Forum Institute has been surveying American citizens about the First Amendment since 1997. And in their 2018 report (download the PDF here), it is clear to see that not only college students, but the majority of US citizens are extremely ignorant of their rights under the First Amendment.
Here are two statistical charts from the survey which greatly illustrates this level of ignorance:
40% of the respondents of the survey (i.e., a rough representation of the US population as a whole) could not even state one of the five freedoms listed in the First Amendment.
To me this figure is absolutely astounding, but not surprising.
Next, merely 36% of respondents could only recall one of the five freedoms:
And 0% of the respondents were able to name all 5!
So, what the hell is going on?
Again, simple. The dumbing down of the masses is something that has been orchestrated by design for a very long time.
Traditional grade school education purposefully excludes students from adequately exploring their own Constitution and inherent freedoms.
Moreover, colleges and universities don't fare much better, as they continue in line with this mindset rendering graduates with very few practical life skills and critical thinking abilities.
Without delving into a lengthy philosophical diatribe on the state of education, I much prefer to look at possible solutions.
If you are parents and feel that you are better educated on the subject of freedoms and life skills, you should strongly consider homeschooling your children. If you don't feel you are well versed in the subject, you can consider educating yourself first on the subject.
As a long time educator, this is what I have set as my mission to do. I recently started the Liberty Academy (see official website at: http://liberty-academy.org/).
All courses are free and focused on acquiring practical knowledge, skills and abilities that will enable people to be self-reliant and free from the many systems of control that enslave them. You can even earn cryptocurrency for studying.
Here are but a few examples of courses you can choose from:
If you want to know what other freedoms will be taken away by the powers that be (and what you can do to prevent that from happening), be sure to sign up for the course 1984: The Prophetic Voice of George Orwell.
A New Juncture in Civilization
The old system is no longer working for us and will continue to enslave us.
The only way out of it is to start anew.
So, instead of complaining, posting, and ranting about the powers that be censoring us, let go, get out, and take control of your own life!
Yall should add a course in this book, too.
It predates 1984 by 30 years, and does a good job of illustrating what is happening today.
https://archive.org/details/ironhee00lond
Thanks for the suggestion. Looks very intriguing; I will definitely check it out!
Np, i cant be free alone.
About the 1st amendment, it's a right to speak in public, but a private companies owns these platforms. There is a difference. What they are doing to get ppl though, to join to make them popular and make money, and let them speak for along time, then when they are powerful enough they decide to cut you off when they let you talk for so long, that's a bitch ...
I don't believe the FAANGs are private companies. They are operating on a DARPA created platform, the internet, and all are funded by government funds both overtly and covertly.
Furthermore, it doesn't even matter if they are private companies or not. They are public fora. They were intended to be public fora from the outset, and therefore they are bound to respect free speech for the public.
Were they private clubs where members were exclusive, that would be a different matter. They are spending government funds on fora proclaimed to be completely open to the public at large to censor certain speech and individuals contrary to their statements.
This is partly why they continually claim they made mistakes censoring people over whom a large enough stink is made, or that the censoring is due to some violation of their policies.
The recent Twatter suspension of Candace Owens, who simply changed the word 'white' for 'jewish' IIRC in tweets made by Jeong shows exactly what their purpose is, and how it is being conducted to order, rather than mistakenly, or due to internal policy.
There is a coordinated international effort to control speech, and it's working because the parts working together each claim to be private and separate. It's not true, and we need to stop allowing our taxes to be spent to censor us.
Totally agree with what you said; especially with:
Absolutely. Even if not legally, at least morally and ethically. (But we know they haven't much of either).
You make me think of the 2nd ROOT of the PROBLEM which I did not state in this post. Namely,
the absence of the RULE OF LAW
There are anti-trust laws in place - Sherman Antitrust Act (26 Stat. , 15 U.S.C.).
But the issue/problem is that it is not enforced like it use to be.
The lack of enforcement of this particular law, and many other laws in the USA, is systemic.
Whether you are looking at the blatantly illegal rigging of the markets by the Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgans, et al., or war crimes, politicians and elites not being properly prosecuted, and so on, it is pervasive that this absence has destroyed the legal fabric that once held the nation together and upright.
Until there is restoration of the rule of law, nothing will change but will only get worse.
And when you have useless and spineless cowards like the Attorney General Jeff Sessions in place, it only proves that those institutions are greatly compromised as well.
I still don't get why people are not looking at these two underlying root causes of this fiasco.
Sad. Very sad state of affairs indeed.
Does that mean the whole internet is public space, and all sites therein are operating in a public space and don't have private property rights to choose to do things as they want?
Companies receive funding at time in the real world, and people can protest on public land, but not on their property. Anyone can make a site in the public internet to speak as they want. But other people's property of their sites get to determine if they want to allow you to enter or not.
Does that mean everyone who receives federal funding becomes publicly beholden?
It doesn't hold up to me...
I think this is a bit besides the point. See my reply to @valued-customer regarding the absence of the rule of law and how these social behemoths should be broken up under anti-trust laws, as they are obviously abusing their power to censor public fora for political gain/alignment.
A public forum paid for with government funds must be obligated to observe the obvious right of the sovereign people speaking there. All the FAANGs, as well as the enemedia like CNN, spend taxes forcibly taken from the people, and have no right to spend those funds to censor us contrary to the clear specification of government power in the Constitution.
Government has no rights, and no power is delegated to it lawfully to censor we rulers of ourselves. Spending funds received from government to create censored public fora is unconstitutional for very good reason.
It's not that receiving food stamps makes you publicly beholden. It's that using government funds to create a public forum does make you beholden to the rules restricting government from censoring the speech of the public. Even if those funds are attempted to be - indeed, even more importantly - covertly distributed to the fora.
Hi @krnel, I had replied you to this thread 2 days ago but for some reason it didn't get through (don't think it was censored but rather just a bug from Steemit), as that day the system was working really choppy); so, I actually forgot the reply I had written.
But when you say "private companies" own the platform (and I assume you mean they have the right to control the contents), I think this is not a valid argument. In the following video Stephan Molyneux acutely points out that these platforms don't censor contensts from what is legally defined as terrorists groups such as Antifa and other radical Muslim groups; why not? It is clear that it is a coordinated effort to go with the narratives they want. Here's the video and well worth the watch, as Molyneux is very articulate and explains what I want to convey much better than I ever can:
From Captain Fantastic
Very good work my brother!
OMG, 40% couldn't even name 1 right!??
I doubt the european students will be much smarter,
because it is exactly how you described the
dumbing down of the masses in combination
with spreading permanent fear & chaos...
And get that microchip(smartphone) closer
& closer to the body, until the smombies
(smartphone-zombies;) ask
for the microchip themselves...
Yes, the chipping and 5G frying issue is the next big phase; and the masses will welcome them with open arms. Sad state of affairs indeed.
Thanks for the re-steem and now following you too my friend!
You name it , brother.
That "bombaclaat" 5G ;)
I heard it first from David Icke...
It's all frequency technology, but our
heart sends out the "Schuhmann"
frequency & our body can be used as an
instrument, in combination with your
voice! So keep on spitting out the truth
in that dirty matrix... she wants to be cleaned up,
that little "bitch" ;)
1 Love from the Light Warrior
Ah yeah, here are some bio protect chips i am using:
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“I much prefer to look at possible solutions”, absolutely, I only wish there were more people that felt that way. My whole slant is that embodied by the great quote you presented by Buckminster Fuller. My solution is to embrace a Collective Intelligence. I believe it our only option. I could go on, you will just have to see my blog to understand. Thanks
I like your idea of 'Collective Intelligence'. And this would be the perfect thing to put on a [immutable] blockchain! The masses should "open source" intelligence for all to see with verifiable facts that cannot be deleted and censored. This would definitely make the world a better place. I think Robert David Steele talked about something of the sort; but I am still not entirely convinced he is legit.
Thanks for the comment and following you now my friend.
It truly is sad when that much of the population do not know what our rights are. My kids are 11 and 14 and they know what they are. I ask this because it could be one of the reasons. Did you ask if they were home schooled or public schooled taught? If not this could be one influencing reasons. They are simply not teaching it.
Exactly. They don't teach much of anything of value in traditional educational settings. I am glad to see your kids know more - probably because you took the time to do so.
I do invite you to consider letting your kids take part in any of my free courses at the Liberty Academy. Here are a couple of suggestions:
Your 11 year old could easily take the first two.
Thanks for weighing in on the conversation; I really appreciate it. I am following you now, as I also see you have a lot of great contents on your blog.
Cheers.
Thank you for the follow. I will go check out these links that you have given me. I decided when I had children that it was my job to raise them and teach them. I hated school growing up as I felt like it was more about socialization and not learning. When my kids were toddlers I started their education and found that they were very capable of learning beyond what the professionals said they were. So education for them is more guided by their interests than dictated by their age.
Good for you and your children. I think a key thing you said is "education for them is more guided by their interests", as this is so very important to development. Not all children are alike. Their are unique beings with their own vibrant curiosities and interests. Thus, any educational setting that forces them into a fixed mold is bound to lose their attention and motivation.
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Exactly. And that is why I think we have a society of cowards, just like the plebs in the novel 1984.
As for Steemit, time will tell whether the dirty tentacles will eventually take hold on it to or not.
Thanks for posting a comment and I am now following you my friend.
Have a good one.
1984 is a must read!
I also have a free course on it that will launch in the Fall. So, if ever you want to read it and then get into a more in-depth analysis of it including many similarities to today, I invite you to take the free course 1984: The Prophetic Voice of George Orwell.
No worries my friend. But you could discover even more that you don't know about in this novel. Peace.