OPINION:
Josef Stalin once said: “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not allow our enemies to have guns; why would we permit them to have ideas?”
Stalin’s oppressive philosophy has found a home in America today, as universities and major news outlets routinely suppress and attempt to discredit conservative views. This suppression of free thought is nowhere more evident than on the internet.
In a recent web query on President Trump, the first three articles the search engine retrieved were from The New York Times, Wikipedia and The Washington Post. These would be three of the least favorable sources from which to get an accurate view of the president. More objective, conservative sources such as The Washington Times, One America News and the New York Post were buried in the liberal quagmire.
The question is: Who is generating the algorithms that suppress conservative opinion? We expected this under the Biden administration. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and testimony from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg regarding government suppression during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency gave ample evidence of what we all knew was occurring then. Now, we have a president who champions free speech. So why is this suppression still occurring?
Although the internet offers great opportunities for knowledge, if controlled by only one ideological persuasion (in this case, the deep state), it becomes only a gulag to imprison free thought.
President Truman said, “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens.”
The American people want accountability for what occurred during the last administration’s reign of terror. From the imprisonment of Jan. 6 protesters to the sinister malfeasance during the pandemic emergency, getting to the bottom of who is controlling the information superhighway is just one more step in seeing this accountability achieved.
ED MULVANEY JR.
Anniston, Alabama
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