Do not waste your time calling out censorship on social media platforms

I am sick of these complaints against censorship on social media. It seems like the only thing that the alternative media and truth teller politicians can talk about. They complain and complain about how Facebook and Twitter censor some voices, or block others—but they do not say a word about why we need to use these for-profit systems that exploit the content we create to make fortunes for their owners without any compensation—and that also sell off our private data to multinational corporations and intelligence agencies without our permission.

The Constitution refers directly to the postal service:

“The Congress shall have the power...to establish post offices and post roads”

Which should be interpreted as meaning that on-line communications also should be established as a public monopoly for the benefit of the people and they should not be monopolized by multinational corporations who use their unfair access to capital to manipulate communication between citizens and get unwarrented access to private information.

The current social media system is not the transparent public monopoly that is run for the public (and never for profit) that it should be. The ability of the multinational corporations to read and to access social media posts, and even to determine who posts can be read by, is the equivalent of a postal service that not only reads your mail, but sells that information to highest bidder and then determines whether or not it wants to deliver your letter.

The truth that none of these phonies who claim they are fighting for your internet freedoms will tell you is that it is extremely easy to create your own social networks and to build up, starting with friends, your own independent social media wherein you allow members to customize the tools and functions, to vote on how the system is run, and you share profits among the users (members) based on their production of content.

That means that you could quickly end the empires of Facebook and Twitter if you just got a few hundred people to agree to chip in a basic fee per year and you then launched an independent network—which would grow and grow on its own.

So why don’t people form their own social networks among their friends, regulate those networks themselves, and share the profits equally?

The answer is simple, Homeland Security and other security and intelligence organizations have authorized their contractors to actively employ covert means to undermine and destroy any effort to create independent social media-and also search engines. They engage in these illegal activities in the name of “cybersecurity” and they do so in order to prop up the inefficient and predatory social media companies and search engines that we are force fed.

Making rivals for Google or Facebook would not take a lot of technology, or much genius either. That hagiography of billionaires is propaganda in its purest form.

All it would require for citizens to form their own social media that are transparent and mutally beneficial. To do so does not require you to raise billions of dollars from angel investors, or to have access to the cutting-edge technology from Stanford. All is required is one minor, minor change in the system that the powers that be will never, never, never give you: independence from the military industrial, congressional, intelligence, finance system. Those who are begging Facebook to be a more kind to citizens are not being honest with you, and perhaps not being honest with themselves.