Big Tech Doesn’t Censor Conservatives, and Other Myths

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By Kurt Mahlburg - Posted at Cross and Culture:

For several years, I’ve been highlighting Big Tech bias when I encounter it, knowing that my ability to do so online may not last forever. I’ve received a lot of pushback to this. The many examples I’ve provided were algorithmic anomalies, I was told—and I may in fact be suffering from a victimhood complex.

So last week’s deplatforming of President Trump and the Big Tech purge that followed it is surely the smoking gun that proves my case once and for all, right?

Wrong. The narrative has suddenly now changed from Big Tech doesn’t censor conservatives to Big Tech platforms can censor anyone they like because they’re private companies.

This cognitive sidestep has been described by author Rod Dreher as the Law of Merited Impossibility. In short, Dreher’s law goes like this: “It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.”

We have definitely moved from the “it will never happen” to the “when it does” phase of this law.

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