Empire State Today

President Trump’s several social media accounts have been removed. Twitter has permanently blocked him “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”

“After Democrats won the presidency, kept the House, took the Senate, and threatened to pack the Supreme Court — furor broke out against Trump. The outrage included the banning of Trump and some of his supporters from social media,” Victor Davis Hanson wrote in his New York Post article.

But it wasn’t just Trump. 

“Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri had his upcoming book — a call to clamp down on Big Tech monopolies — abruptly canceled by publisher Simon & Schuster. Hawley’s crime was apparently his quixotic persistence in questioning the authenticity of the 2020 election,” Hanson commented.

And the censorship wasn’t only for individuals. Parler, a site used by conservatives, was removed by Google, Apple, and Amazon.  

Hanson compared and asked. 

“Is AK-47-toting rapper Raz Simone banned from social media? He took over a swath of downtown Seattle last June and declared it an autonomous zone. For weeks, his armed guards reigned supreme without worry of police.”

In  2017 Madonna expressed her desire to blow up the White House. “Is Madonna banned from social media?” 

“Vicky Osterweil’s book ‘In Defense of Looting,’ came out last summer during the Antifa and Black Lives Matter unrest. The author was even featured on National Public Radio in a largely sympathetic interview.”

Hanson questioned why some, like “the media, the publishing industry, a host of corporations and a growing number of campuses double down on censoring some free speech?”

His opinion: “Progressive politicians, Wall Street, the media, academia, Hollywood, and professional sports are all on the side of the mega-rich tech cartels. Partnering with Big Tech is both politically useful and financially lucrative.”