re: Parler suspended, Fox worried they're next

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Well, this go round is a lot different. If you control the media and the communication apparatus, you can control said "blowback".

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Maybe, but I just don't think they'll see it as in their interest to push too far. They've already shown they can succeed.

To me, this is testing a couple of theories/plans in the works for a long time. Two fold, I think

1) Leftists control most big influential companies. They've helped created a short-attention span environment through social media and 24/7 news and horrendous reality TV and feeding superhero content to adults, etc. etc. etc. We're a dumb society that is only getting more stupid and we need ever more stimulation to function and find happiness now that they've waged war on the family, faith, etc. Leftists can't win straight up arguments with normal people about abortion and transgenderism and whatever based on merit. But they can get you to back down if they can show your quality of life (consisting of the above fleeting, vanity-driven shite) is in jeopardy if you engage in wrongthink.

2) Our modern tech oligarchs who are ideologically driven (like Jack) know that he can't hire private security to protect him from the masses, nor will police/military/etc. give a shite about him after he's spent years letting people use his company to wage war on those things. So he's a wealthy sitting duck if the mobs (left or right, black or white, etc.) ever come to his door with genuinely ill intent. And there are many like him. But again, the mobs crave stimulation, they love their iphones, they love Instagram, etc. They can probably be better controlled with addiction to these things than the threat of jailtime. So it's not just an ideological war, it's a personal protection plan for the uber-wealthy. We're addicts and they're our dealer.