đ„THE CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GOT EXPOSED
âAND NOW THEYâRE TERRIFIED
Once upon a timeâby which I mean just a couple of years agoâyou could get banned off the entire internet for saying something that, in retrospect, turned out to be 100% correct.
COVID origins? Banned. Election concerns? Banned. Saying men shouldnât box women? Nuclear-level banned.
The Most Humble Blog wasnât immune to the digital gulag, either. My entire Medium accountâwhich I created about a year agoâwas flagged, reported, and permanently nuked for violating the delicate sensibilities of the same people who spend their weekends dressed like discount Madonna impersonators.
I tried to acquiesce. A decision Iâm still ashamed of.
I tried not rocking the boat, at least a little.
I thought, maybe, if I wasnât too loud, if I just toned it down 5%, these lipstick-bearded hall monitors would let me exist.
But it was too late.
The mob had already decided. It didnât matter if I changed the phrasing, softened the wording, or used gentler languageâbecause it was never about the words.
It was about eliminating the wrong thinkers.
And in case there was any lingering illusion that these platforms were âneutral,â the dismissive response from Mediumâs staff confirmed everything I needed to know:
They werenât just tolerating censorship; they were leading it.
They werenât punishing bad behavior; they were enforcing ideology.
They werenât just banning âharmful speechâ; they were shutting up anyone who didn't fall in line.
It didnât even matter that they were the ones who sought me out.
It didnât matter that they came into my inbox spewing the most profane, unhinged, sexually explicit insults they could string together.
It didnât matter that they violated every rule on the site.
They had the backing of the moderators.
Because this was never about rules. It was about who gets to speak.
THE GREAT SILENCINGâAND THE RISE OF THE RESISTANCE
For years, censorship was camouflaged as virtue.
It wasnât âbanning opposing viewsâ; it was stopping hate. It wasnât âerasing dissenting voicesâ; it was protecting marginalized people. It wasnât âcrushing free speechâ; it was curating a safe space.
And if you dared question the censors?
You were labeled a menace to society faster than a blue-haired Twitter addict could say, âReport and block.â
The problem? The lies didnât hold up.
The same experts who silenced COVID skeptics were later forced to admit that lab-leak theories were âplausible.â
The same tech giants who buried election concerns suddenly stopped banning people for asking questions.
The same people who claimed "speech is violence" suddenly had nothing to say when the violence was against people who disagreed with them.
And then, something happened that completely shattered their monopoly on the conversation:
Trump got back into the picture.
And love him or hate him, he did something no other politician had the balls to do:
He put these censor-happy pussies on notice.
Unless thereâs a proveable direct threat against a person, people should be able to say whatever the fuck they want. Period.
Not âif it aligns with corporate-approved narratives.â Not âif it doesnât hurt anyoneâs feelings.â Not âif itâs deemed acceptable by a bunch of unwashed Twitch moderators.â
Whatever. The fuck. They want.
And suddenly?
The entire censorship machine started backpedaling.
NOW THEYâRE SCAREDâAND THEY SHOULD BE
Letâs be real. These people never believed in free speech.
They believed in speech control.
They thrived under the old systemâwhere they could run around platforms, flagging people they didnât like, getting them deplatformed, demonetized, and erased from existence.
But now?
Now theyâre absolutely terrified.
Why?
Because they know they canât win without silencing the opposition.
Because they know they donât have the numbers.
Because they know that without biased moderators holding their hands, their arguments fall apart faster than a Dollar Store wig in a rainstorm.
And for the first time in years, these people are realizing:
They donât own the internet anymore.
They donât get to dictate whatâs âallowedâ anymore.
They donât get to be the arbiters of truth anymore.
The free speech Renaissance is here, and they are shitting bricks.
WHAT COMES NEXT?
The fight isnât over.
These platforms arenât suddenly pro-free speech out of some moral awakening.
No, no, no.
Theyâre only backing off because:
They got exposed.
Their narrative fell apart.
And people stopped being afraid.
But donât think for a second they arenât waiting for their chance to clamp down again.
The second they think they can regain control, theyâll try it again.
Which is why now, more than ever, you have to:
đ„ Speak your mind. đ„ Refuse to self-censor. đ„ Push the conversation forward, no matter how âtabooâ it is.
Because the second we go quiet?
They win.
And fuck that.
đ„ REBLOG if you refuse to be silenced.
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