WordPress Becomes WordCrush

We need to get together and strategize because I do not for a minute believe that the Tech industry’s slow suppression of conservative voices has been a coincidence. WordPress is only the beginning as far as silencing private blogsites is concerned. Inch by inch, I believe we’re going to see conservative platforms fall much like a stack of dominoes and there’s no telling when billwhittle.com will have its head planted firmly down on the chopping block.

For decades, the left has had a nigh-absolute strangehold on information. CNN, ABC, NBC, NPR, New York Times, etc. Fox News came along so their go-to tactic to deal with them was a 24/7 smear campaign (anybody remember the term faux news?) while slowly watching the GOP establishment poison the network from within. Eventually, Fox News became less relevant (biased right-wing kooks!) and more and more RINO oriented (them calling Arizona early on election night was perhaps merely thin piece of straw that broke the camel’s back.

But while Fox News grew less and less desirable, we began to see the rise of conservative bloggers. Whether it was through facebook, twitter, youtube, various blogsites, etc, the left’s hold on information was growing thinner and thinner as we were slowly growing into an age where people no longer needed to watch the news to get their information. And best of all, conservative bloggers don’t have to worry about pissing off GOP establishment donors. In fact, some of the most successful independent conservative voices have made a living blasting the GOP establishment.

So what does the left do about this new age of information? Did they go quietly into the night and let their obsessive control-freak urges go to the wayside? Of course not! Instead, they spent years (much of what we’ve seen slowly develop since Trump’s historic 2016 victory) peddling influence (and in some cases buying out) with these Big Tech companies. So much to the point that the most commonly used search in the entire world has now had algorithms altered to the point to where users are much more likely to yield searches catered to leftwing sites/articles/groups/information than to rightwing. Wikipedia has now being edited to the point to where leftwing figures are described as being God’s gift to mankind while rightwing politicians are criminal scum (simply compare and contrast Donald Trump’s article with Joe Biden’s and you’ll see what I’m talking about). Openly conservative users on Facebook/Twitter are far more likely to be banned/censored than leftists and are far less likely to have their posts trend due to the way the algorithm there operates. Same goes for YouTube. To add insult injury, we now have a SITTING PRESIDENT who DAILY has his posts CENSORED by twitter as being false disinformation. If there’s enough precedent for that to be done to a SITTING PRESIDENT, sites like billwhittle.com don’t stand a chance in the long term.

Something needs to be done. I propose litigating the hell out of section 230. These Big Tech companies are clearly acting like publishers and thus not like the kind of platforms its protections were intended to apply to. I propose somebody (preferably a private figure as this plan WILL fail otherwise) find some knucklehead on Facebook who is making prima facie defamatory comments about them. That somebody should then proceed to sue the knucklehead defaming them (even if said knucklehead is as poor as dirt) AND include Facebook itself as a defendant. The argument should be made that section 230 is unconstitutional, that Facebook is clearly acting outside of the scope of the companies section 230 was intended to protect and (just for giggles) Times v. Sullivan (and its progeny) is unconstitutional and inconsistent with the terms of the First Amendment. Doesn’t matter what the lower courts will say about this case. The goal is to take it all the way up to the supreme court. By my calculations, we have enough justices to sledgehammer the Big Tech industry. It’s just a matter of willpower at this point.