Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots – Commentary

Conservatives have been saying it for years.

Social media has been censoring our ability to share our concerns, post our thoughts and opinions, and even throwing us into some sort of cyber jail for posting the facts when those facts are in opposition to the liberal agenda.

For years, social media has denied the practice.

Last week, the two biggest social media offenders screwed up big-time when they tried to squash the Biden story, and they screwed up on such a grand scale that now EVERYBODY knows that Conservatives have been 100% correct all along.

When the Biden story broke in the NY Post last week, Facebook , Google and Twitter went into their default protect the liberal agenda modes immediately. First, they censored the NY Post, shutting them out of their social media platforms. Then, they shut down President Trump’s access to the Twitter platform, and soon after that, they shut down Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany too.

But the tech arm of the liberal propaganda machine didn’t stop there.

They also put the squeeze on Conservatives who were trying to help get the story out by either deleting their tweets, or by restricting the reach of their posts on Facebook to zero.

And what reason did they give for the bald-faced censorship?

They said that it was “unverified” or that it somehow violated “community standards.”

First things first…”unverified?” How many times over the past four years have these Marxists and Fascists not only allowed, but encouraged the posting, sharing and retweeting of completely fabricated stories against President Trump? Against Nick Sandmann? Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and so many other Conservatives? Every time something “unverified” or even PROVEN to be false went up on their platforms regarding high profile Conservatives…Facebook and Twitter did NOTHING to stop it. NOTHING.

The Russian Collusion crap, the manufactured dossier, the completely bogus crap regarding Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky…every fabricated claim made by Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Stormy Daniels…every lie was allowed full access and so too was every liar spreading those lies.

Christine Blasse Ford? All the false rhetoric against Sandmann? Yep…all of it was spread far and wide via social media without so much as the batting of an eye.

NONE of that crap was verified. Nearly ALL of it came from “anonymous sources,” and all of it was proven false. THAT was okay. THAT didn’t violate “community standards.” And what, pray-tell are those “community standards?”

Well, that’s quite the mystery isn’t it?

Facebook relies on some super double top secret algorithm and “fact checkers” to silence Conservatives, but they won’t tell anyone anything about the algorithm, and their “fact checkers” seem to all be either leftist propagandists from the mainstream media, or for more worldly endeavors, they are a bunch of islamists.

While I could easily provide enough examples of the fascism employed by Twitter and Facebook with regard to their censorship of Conservatives, I think we, as Conservatives, are well aware of those examples, as we have been restrained and constrained by them for years. The real question is…how do these social media fascists get away with it?

Well…that comes down to a provision in the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that was passed by congress. Specifically, the point in question is Section 230.

Section 230 of the CDA is, as one might well expect, a rather long document written in legal language that could put a hyperactive squirrel into a coma, and its intent WAS to provide GREATER transparency and GREATER ability for people to express their thoughts on the internet by not holding internet providers liable for what their users post. That sounds good, but it’s been perverted by the ilk of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others.

Within Section 230, one comes across part “(c) Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material” which is where one finds the provision for the perversion. It’s in subsection “(2) Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—“ and can be found in, “(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;”

Thar she blows…three little words buried in the text of the law… “or otherwise objectionable.”

THAT is what the fascists in social media are using to justify censoring we the Conservatives because there is nothing anywhere in the text of Section 230 that identifies WHO gets to decide that something is “otherwise objectionable,” or defines or limits what content IS “otherwise objectionable.”

To the social media fascists, the ilk of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others, what is “otherwise objectionable” is anything that runs afoul of the liberal, socialist and Marxist agenda, and they believe those three little words give them every right to censor those with whom they disagree.

As a Conservative, you are literally expected to park your 1^st Amendment rights at the social media door. Your 1^st Amendment rights, according to social media fascists, do not apply to your keyboards, and you MUST be precluded from the ability to freely, and openly express your thoughts regarding the political discourse henceforth.

Share all the photos you want showing your puppy Bosco chewing on your slippers, but post up a photo of little Bosco peeing on a Biden sign and there’s a damned good chance it’s “otherwise objectionable.”

Post all the vile, disingenuous, false, or hate-ridden things you want about President Trump…that’s fine…but post up a story regarding Hunter Biden’s emails published by the NY Post that show Joe Biden as a National Security risk and most likely a criminal?

Yep…”Otherwise objectionable.”

Down comes your post, and away you go to the social media gulag.

The question becomes…now that the element of Section 230 has been identified, what can be done about it?

Well…how about revising or fixing Section 230? Right now, that’s the plan, and it’s been kicked around in the halls of congress for quite some time. BOTH sides of the aisle want it revised. BOTH sides of the aisle see it as highly problematic. Common ground?

Not on your life.

Joe Biden and his liberal, socialist and Marxist pals want Congress to revise Section 230 to make tech companies, social media included, more accountable for hate speech and extremism, election interference, misinformation and disinformation.

President Trump and his Conservative allies want Section 230 repealed, and the Justice Department wants it revised in such a way as to hold Facebook, Google YouTube and Twitter legally accountable for how they moderate content.

They’re lightyears apart. The left who understands the power of such a tool to be used to silence the right wants to bolster their ability to label things THEY don’t like as “misinformation and disinformation” regardless of the truth of the matter, or your 1^st Amendment rights. The right wants to hold the social media fascists accountable for censoring those with whom they disagree, including making their so-called “community standards” publically known in full, a published list of their algorithm key words, and the doing away with the “fact checkers” who are really only checking to see which side of the political aisle those who post content to social media occupy.

So, is it an all or nothing scenario?

It certainly doesn’t have to be, and the reason it is so screwed up now is because a congressional committee got involved in it in 1996. Sir Alec Issigonis, a British car designer who worked at the Morris Minor Company from the age of 18 and went on to design the Mini once said, “A camel is not but a horse designed by committee,” and I might suggest that giving congress another crack at it might well end up turning that camel into a sea giraffe.

It would be virtually impossible to write a provision for law with regard to Section 230 that would cover any and all eventualities to protect against things so obtuse, so vile and/or so adverse to the well-being of society and yet have it be both readable, and able to be adjudicated so how about a dose of good old small town Nebraska common sense rather than some sea giraffe designed by congressional committee?

Nothing posted to social media can violate federal law, the protected rights of Americans as listed in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and as platforms for the freedom of expression, neither social media platforms nor their ownership can be sued by users of said platforms for what other users post. That would provide social media platforms the ability to remove abhorrent content if, and only if it is in violation of existing federal law, and it would force social media to allow the free expression of any ideas, opinions or content NOT violating federal laws sans the fear of a trip to the cyber gulag.

Such a simple fix to what has been misconstrued as a complex problem. Such a fix would also put the ball back into the court of the individual to decide what they want to see…what they want to read, what they want to believe and what they choose to pass along to others.

Group-think is central to the liberal agenda which is why social media is what it is today, and why our education system has devolved into telling students WHAT to think rather than HOW to think. If liberals, socialists and Marxists truly believe that their agenda is what’s best for America, they shouldn’t have any fear of opposing points of view but so long as big brother has the protection available to censor those with opposing views, they will rely on it to see to it that ONLY their views are allowed in public discourse.

Remember…ALL of this has gained national attention thanks to big tech’s censorship of the Hunter/Joe Biden email discovery, and to go in-depth into that, please read my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner’s op-ed, Evidence Found, Evidence Suppressed.

If Section 230 is really meant to foster freedom of expression on the internet…than my simple solution is THE solution.

If you think I’ve hit on something here…share the link to this commentary to everyone you know…AND send it to every member of congress so as to diminish the chances of being overrun by sea giraffes.

Feel free to chat amongst yourselves.

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