https://www.rt.com/op-ed/506204-biden-big-tech-censorship/
Under Biden, Big Tech’s censorship goons will make conservatives nostalgic for the days of relatively free speech in Obama era
Fast-forward to the 2020 election, and the social-media censors are working hard to deliver their kind of governance. News that made Democrat candidate Joe Biden look bad, such as the New York Post’s scoops last month about his family’s alleged influence-peddling in Ukraine and China, was blocked by Twitter and Facebook.
Deviation from mainstream orthodoxy on certain topics had been outlawed. For instance, saying anything contrary to the establishment’s version of Covid-19 facts was banned. And any suggestion that mass mail-in voting could lead to election fraud was slapped with a misinformation label on Twitter.
Even Trump himself wasn’t allowed to speak freely. His tweets about mail-in voting were preempted with a warning saying the content was “disputed and might be misleading.” A notice under his message said, “Learn how voting by mail is safe and secure.”
Social media kept its thumb on the scale after the November 3 election, too, censoring or labeling unwanted material, such as Trump’s tweets about voting fraud.
Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule tweeted what he called a “visual guide” on Friday to show “who may speak and how.” The attached illustration showed warning-labeled messages from the president and his son Eric Trump on one side and an unfettered tweet from leftist comedian Kathy Griffin holding up a bloodied head of Donald Trump in effigy. Vermeule’s Twitter account has since disappeared.
If Biden’s declared election victory withstands Trump’s legal challenges, the social-media walls will finish closing in on dissenting views. As podcaster Matt Walsh pointed out, there will be “very few avenues for criticizing and holding accountable an administration run by a man in mental decline.”
The New York Post articles were a taste of what’s to come. Big Tech did its best to block the reports from being distributed on social media, including suspending the Post’s Twitter account. Mainstream-media outlets declined to follow up and report on the information, which was clearly in the public interest to know. Those same outlets then inoculated their audiences from having to consider the allegations against Biden, dismissing the reports as Russian propaganda. For good measure, the Deep State provided cover, as more than 50 former US intelligence officials put out a statement opining – without any evidence – that the Kremlin was behind the Biden reports.