Monday, December 21, 2020

Community Standards To Come  

You make a cell phone call and midway through the call an automated female voice pleasantly announces that the last sentence you said was not transmitted. It violated community standards or it's been fact-checked as false. You then get reconnected to your call and the person on the other end of the line didn't hear your last sentence. Instead, that person heard an automated female voice pleasantly announce that the call will resume after deletion of violating content. How would you feel if cell phone service providers like T-Mobile or ATT interjected themselves into calls this way? 

If this seems preposterous to you, it shouldn't. After all, cell phone providers are private corporations and it's perfectly fine for such sovereign persons (yes, corporations are legally persons) to have community standards which they enforce. If Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and Instagram, also private companies, can fact-check or sensor your content, then it's only a matter of time until we are told that this is the right thing to do by cell phone providers -- for "justice", for "truth", for your own "safety" and the "safety of others."

We are entering a time when all content needs to be governed by standards - corporate standards. This policing of thought will be allowed for one simple reason - because the Constitution of the United States will be deemed a violation of community standards. In fact, this has already happened. 

Of course, if you are a small business owner, like a restaurant owner, this doesn't apply to you. You too are a private business and you too may feel you have community standards. But don't try to go over to two of your patrons and tell them they have to leave because what they are discussing together over their dinner has been fact-checked by your fact-checkers or because you have deemed it a conspiracy theory. The right to do this is allowed only for some, because in the New Normal of The Great Reset, there are different sets of rights and responsibilities for different groups of people. And only one group of elites get to decide who's in which group. Remember, there are only groups. No individuals, and so no individual rights.

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