Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, recently shared a theory with Tucker Carlson as to why Big Tech has been so accommodating when it comes to the federal government's suppression and censorship demands.
Now you might think the situation requires no advanced theory. These companies by and large share the ideology of the regime, after all, and for that reason are all too happy to do its bidding.
But Benz suggests there's more to it than that.
According to Benz, Facebook is "totally dependent on the US State Department, the intelligence services, and to some extent, the long-range threat of the Pentagon" to protect Facebook from laws like the EU Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act.
Says Benz:
I was at the State Department when I was called by nine Google lobbyists who told me that the number-one threat to Google's business model over the next five years is the EU Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act. They need the protection of Big Daddy State Department for favors for their profits. And so they play ball with the State Department's censorship demands in order to preserve that.
Benz even thinks there's a possibility that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (which owns Facebook), was actually sincere in his recent letter to the House Judiciary Committee, in which among other things he said:
I believe the government pressure [during the period of Covid restrictions] was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Zuckerberg added: "It's since been made clear that the reporting [on the Hunter Biden laptop] was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story."
Benz says "people like Mark Zuckerberg right now are feeling like they're at their they're at their wits' end because they gave the State Department and they gave the Biden administration everything they asked for in terms of censorship demands, and they're still being bullied by them."
Benz concludes:
Mark Zuckerberg said that he regretted the censorship actions five months ago on Joe Rogan. So it's no surprise. But the fact that he would do it to the Republican chairman of the House Weaponization Committee and the fact that he said he's no longer supporting Democrats in this election cycle, signals to me that he fears the blob now and and feels like the Harris administration's continuity of the Biden administration's pressure policies, that there's no amount of flesh that he can give up as a pound to satiate their bloodlust, and that he's turning, if not towards Trump, then towards something that's against that.
Do you buy it? Anyway, it's a theory, and it sure explains a lot.
And while it's true that the bad guys have been suppressing what we can read and discuss, that's just one part of their war on us
Tom woods
