All they needed was an opening. And for the rich extremists at the helm of the Westâs social media, last Wednesdayâs riot gave them one. The purging of conservative expression has begun. We knew it was coming â just as weâve always known it will take every one of us to stop it.
Most Americans thought they understood censorship. Theyâve watched it evolve and expand this last decade, scooping up more people in its nets in the name of âtolerance,â âdiversity,â and ânon-violence.â But what happened this weekend was not a tweet blocked here or an account suspended there. No, this was much more ominous. What Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon did by locking out the president wasnât just a heavy-handed punishment of Donald Trump and his supporters â it was a scorched-earth campaign against the tens of millions of people who dare to think differently than they do and the open forums that give our movement a voice.