The Latest Digital Purge is a Book Burning
Are the American People too stupid to see the info they receive is being controlled by the Oligarchy?
The cartoonish binary that has come to pass; Russia bad, therefore all things Russian are bad, declares the simplicity of everyone who buys into it.
Big techs purging of all things Russia is akin to book burnings. There is no other explanation for the purging of video archives of shows like “On Contact”, and “Breaking the Set”, to Europe banning Russia Today, and Oliver Stone’s documentary, “Ukraine on Fire”.
The powers to be, the confluence between government, big business, big tech, and mainstream media believe you the individual are too stupid to be allowed to see things that present a contrary view and come to an informed conclusion.
The blanket xenophobia against all things Russian is ignorance played out amongst us in living color.
An American of Ukraine ethnicity opened a Russian cuisine restaurant believing it would be more popular than a Ukraine cuisine has been harassed and vandalized.
A young Russian Piano Player who was slated to play with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra was dropped after complaints about his citizenship.
My friends next come, the Russian Internment Camps. Will the next Senator McCarthy stand up? We need a buffoon to lead the next witch hunt circus.
Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of information from a source not approved by the dominant power structure. The most hilarious thing about this American brand of censorship is that it completely mirrors the actions of the Russian and Ukraine government's censorship of media they find contrary.
Wait until the right powerful someone decides you shouldn’t be allowed on the internet at all. Boom, not available from your internet service provider. Soon like in the 1984 dystopian society, there will be only one acceptable source of information.
You can not call yourself a freedom and liberty-loving American Constitutionalist if you think any of this censorship is justifiable. And excuse the harshness, I invite you to go jump off a bridge.
© 2022, T. Mark Mangum
T.Mark Mangum is a U. S. Army Veteran. Retired after 20 years of active service. I am a constitutionalist and a progressive. Censorship makes the world a dark and dangerous place.





