Big Tech and the First Amendment

There were some Congressional hearings this week of interest to the nation.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many people paid attention.

The House Oversight Committee brought four former Twitter employees in to explain themselves and the way they censored people.  There were two topics of particular interest:  Covid-19 and the Hunter Biden laptop story.  In each case, these four people made decisions not based on their elevated expertise, but on craven political considerations.  They banned conservatives and newspapers over the Biden laptop, they banned Stanford- and Harvard-trained doctors over the Covid-19 matters...and they did it with the complicity of the FBI.

Democrats on the committee repeatedly claimed that the committee was wasting its time, that it should instead be doing work the improve the country.  I'm sure Republicans made similar claims during the Watergate hearings.  

That Democrats are doing everything they can to deflect because they realize that, finally, the laptop has been verified as authentic and that the money trail will lead back to Man of Dementia.  They are scared to death that the support they have in the country will disappear despite the co-opted MSM.  They fear power slipping from their grip.  And they would be right to worry were it not for a MSM that has totally lost its way.  I've said it many times:  The fourth estate has turned into a fifth column.

Once the Republicans retook the House, I hoped that they would not turn revenge into a series of endless committees as payback for the insanity that was the last Congress.  I made exceptions for two things:  The laptop story and the FBI, and big tech and the First Amendment.  Representative Jim Jordan is a bulldog, and I admire the way he's grilling these four.  

Alas, I'm not sure that any of this will bear fruit.  With the majority of the MSM wedded to the Left, there's little chance of fair and accurate reporting that will make its way to the electorate.  That means that there will still be voters who believe the pablum the Left is serving them, despite facts to the contrary.

It is doubtful that anyone will hail what he has done, but Elon Musk has done the country a huge favor by releasing the Twitter Files.  Matt Taibi, Bari Weiss and others have done yeoman's work sifting through the evidence to present an unbiased report of just what Twitter under these four traitors was doing.

It will never happen, but I'd like to see these four have their heads shaved in public as was done to collaborators with the Nazis in countries like the Netherlands, France and Italy.  They could be branded with a scarlet T and left to their devices in the general public.  I don't want them shot because then they'd be martyred.  

We're only in the first stages of this national travesty.  

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