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Guest Post by Eric Peters

I have found out something interesting I think everyone needs to know about. It’s not merely my own “dangerous and derogatory” commentary which has caught the eye of sauron.

Your comments as well.

Many of you probably already know or have noticed that Big Media outlets – even CNN – used to allow free and open comments on the articles they published. They no longer do. Or they require you to “sign in” via Facebook before you’re permitted to comment. And the comments are heavily redacted.

This had to be done, of course – because most of the comments (when people were free to comment) were negative; they pointed out factual errors. They noted the obvious, deliberate one-sided editorializing in “news” coverage.

It looked bad.

More accurately, it shattered the illusion of agreement which the Big Media knows is vital to the centralization of everything which it exists to promote. They need to make refusniks feel ostracized, alone – freaks.

Keep in mind these Big Media outlets are owned by Big Corporations – just a few of them – and these Big Corporations operate as an adjunct of Big Government.

Their interests vibe.

So, the Big Media outlets eliminated their comments section or neutered them. They know perfectly well that in the Panopticon Era, people are terrified of posting a critical comment online – no matter the soundness, factually, of the comment – for fear of losing their job and never being able to get another job. Post something to the effect that you consider Bruce Jenner he rather than she – regardless of his insistence that his chromosomes have changed from XY to XX because he is wearing a dress – and you put your livelihood in jeopardy. The shock troops of the Woke Army will have your blood. Or at least, your job.

Hence the crucial importance of being able to comment anonymously. Without being forced to “sign in” using Facebook, the digital age analog of the East German Stasi except self-reporting.

On EPautos, people are – and always will be – free to comment without “signing in” via Facebook or any other organ of the Panopticon. But this the Panopticon dislikes very much – and is pressuring me to stifle comments in just the same manner as the Big Media organs already do.

The Panopticon wants me to force you to “sign in” via Facebook, eliminate anonymous comments and – most loathsome of all – “pull” any comments it considers “dangerous and derogatory.”

So, we are all in the same boat – and it will float or not depending on whether we let them scuttle it.

I’m not having it.

How about you?

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14 Comments
thetruthonly
thetruthonly
April 21, 2019 11:07 am

Disagreement helps to understand. No one knows everything. Even without the conspiracy to subvert and “educate/assimilate” , there is plenty good reason to allow any comments. The search for truth and agreement. The loser in an argument is the winner, they learn something. You get to swear unmercifully when it seems just right. Those goddambsonsofbithces who disable comments on YouTube also.. Fuck ’em.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 21, 2019 11:47 am

Under the base axiom of egalitarian blank state, there is no individual.

Your sexual orientation was chosen based on gender roles that were conditioned by the culture.

The central planners will program you for what is best for the collective.

Does this not compute.

I kid you not. Why do think Trans Gender bathrooms makes sense. Because if it didn’t. The whole edifice of the blank slate would come crashing down.

impermanence
impermanence
April 21, 2019 12:03 pm

We’re talking about the collective actions of human beings.

Lower your expectations.

yahsure
yahsure
April 21, 2019 1:29 pm

I’ve been hearing of limited access to weather information sites that were previously open to anyone.
The thought police are working overtime to control information. A society of people who don’t think too much, or for themselves is what they want. I don’t like the Democrat model being pushed by almost everyone.

455Kc
455Kc
  yahsure
April 22, 2019 12:59 am

Examples?

Steve
Steve
  455Kc
April 22, 2019 2:22 am

Go back to sleep, asshat

455Kc
455Kc
  Steve
April 22, 2019 3:16 pm

Okay, my bad-examples of weather information sites having limited access?

The rest of the post about information control is not in question.

In the future, could you be more eloquent? “Asshat” is a little overused. See EC for clever examples of how to properly insult a person.

ToS
ToS
April 21, 2019 2:03 pm

Mostly I feel sorry that so many of us are being made real victims via inculcation, divisiveness, and conditioning as in, addiction to technology

But I get mad, too, because if people would just pay a LITTLE BIT OF ATTENTION, they can see some of these things pretty clearly.

We are dealing with the ostrich-head-in-the-sand and many just won’t accept that “it could happen in America.”

When they finally realize, it will be too late.

It is all prophetic but that doesn’t mean we should not push back and fight the good fight.

Jack
Jack
April 21, 2019 2:26 pm

You think that’s something, Criticizing Israel Will Land You in Prison.

https://kurtnimmo.blog/2019/04/17/death-of-free-speech-criticizing-israel-will-land-you-in-prison/

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
April 21, 2019 11:39 pm

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Rossa
Rossa
April 22, 2019 4:08 am

All of this censorship is why Gab brought out Dissenter. It must be having an effect because Firefox and other browsers are seeking to block it as an add on. Gab is now working on their own browser.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 22, 2019 4:59 am

I AM WITH YOU, ERIC – and Quinn of TBP. The sensorship is way more serious than most are aware. Search engines, media errors of omission as well as comission (propaganda) and non-media fascist corporations are all in cahoots!! Can I submit articles on your site – I have some good content on the political scene.

M G
M G
  Anonymous
April 22, 2019 10:44 am

I looked at sensorship.com and discovered a new industry.

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