It’s a One Party Internet Now
In 2016, Facebook received an enormous amount of criticism from the media for allowing Donald Trump to be elected. They said Facebook was allowing so much “hate speech” and “fake news” that it gave Donald Trump an advantage and ultimately the White House.
And now on the fourth day of the 2020 election, I am only able to read one side’s account (at least on Google) of how the votes are being counted.
On Wednesday and Thursday I could read articles about ballot dumps in different states, but by Thursday afternoon they no longer showed up in the Google search results.
If you looked hard you could read about how election criticism was “false” or “lies”, but you couldn’t read about the background of the claims at all. I did find one fact check website saying the claims about ballot stuffing was a snowballed goof of a conservative writer.
Slam dunk case closed? I doubt it.
During the campaign, Facebook and Twitter deleted posts and accounts of White House staff for referencing articles referencing Hunter’s laptop and the emails that were found on it pushing Hunter for influence from his dad, which the FBI has said they are actively investigating. I don’t remember ever seeing any articles from the major news sources or in the search results about how their business partner admitted they were selling influence for money.
Fox News is now a mainstream, liberal news source.
There are conservative voices at Fox News like Bret Bair and Laura Ingraham, but the decision desk is being run by a Hillary donor.
Rush Limbaugh referenced a RedState.com article asking why Biden only did better in swing states, which I can’t find by Google searching. And he asked why Trump was ahead in all of these states when the polls closed and the counting stopped only to be behind the next morning.
Why did the Republicans gain seats in the house but lose supposedly the White House? Why are the Republicans still in control of the Senate but supposedly lose the White House? Is it true that after election ballots with only Joe Biden on them helped Joe without helping his party?
That’s what people are alleging, and I can’t check it out by searching Google. Google only shows me one side’s account.
I totally get why Donald Trump wishes for a new media organization. Fox News wants to be liked by the media elites and so, like Harvard, supreme court justices, and maybe America in it’s wealth, it has caved to approving of and supporting the herd instead of the truth.
The censorship and filtering is soft at this point: no one is going to disappear me for disagreeing with Biden, the person who the internet is pushing on us to be president. And I can still see something like both sides if I go to specific websites like RealClearPolitics.com. DuckDuckGo claims it is not run by Google, but the articles sure seem to disappear there like they are using the same mechanisms as Google.
And today I can still go to conservative websites directly. What about tomorrow? Will the conservative websites come down when the media and the internet can’t get Biden reelected?
No place has ever succeeded under one party rule, and the internet will be no different.
My hope is that in the same way the people in Soviet Russia dismissed the information they were spoon fed, that people today would decide for themselves what to believe and disregard the tainted internet.
If people lose trust in the online news sources, their revenues will decline. Until the government props them up like Detroit, they will continue to suffer for their lies.
