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Internet Censoring: Internet Giants Killing Alternative Media & attempting to Change How You Think.
from Off Grid Survival:
When people talk about the internet they often speak about how it has radically enhanced our access to information and learning. While in the beginning that may have been the case, the once great bastion for free expression and ideas has been corrupted and hijacked by a handful of greedy media conglomerates and Silicon Valley corporations.
Over the last decade, alternative media outlets and citizen journalists have been able to successfully use the internet to bring information to people in a way that was unheard of in the past. People that were once silenced by the government/media propagandists were able to get their message out in a way that became a huge threat to the establishment. But over the last couple of years, the open source internet has become threatened by those who are scared to death of losing their power, and the promised gateway to free speech, free thought, and free learning is now in jeopardy.
The Progressive Thought Police: Internet Giants Seizing Control over the Internet
Between Facebook, Twitter, and Google most internet traffic is now driven by one of these large corporate sites. In fact, it’s estimated that as much as 40% of all news site traffic is now delivered directly from Facebook alone. With so much traffic now in the hands of a few large Silicon Valley corporations, you really have to ask yourself: How free is the internet?
Think about it; a handful of very large corporations now have the power to control exactly what you see, and then slowly shift how you feel about certain subjects without you even knowing.
What sounds like something directly out of 1984, has now become our reality. With the flip of a switch — or rather a small change in a computer algorithm — these three companies can now control exactly what you see, what the public reads, and even how the public feels on just about any subject.
Stop and think about what that really means.
Think about how easily these companies can shift public perception. Think about how easily they can influence something like an election by simply limiting what kind of news you see, or increasing a certain type of message that you are exposed to on a daily basis.
