Many leftists end up coming to similar conclusions as the Daily Stormer on various things, though sometimes for different reasons. However, the reasoning isn’t important: the only thing that matters is that they come to a conclusion opposed to the mainstream narrative, and therefore they are being subjected to the same kinds of censorship and deplatforming that we’ve suffered under.
While the mainstream is “leftist” in a vague sense, the traditional left is now a totally different entity than the mainstream Democrat left, in the same way that Daily Stormer is a totally different entity than the GOP establishment. Some of these people on the traditional left might agree with the Democrat rhetoric on irrelevant issues, but on all the big issues they are separating.
Jimmy Dore last week covered an article from Caitlyn Johnstone about how several leftists have had their PayPal accounts blocked for being against the US war on Russia. That article covers the PayPal banning of Mint Press, who had just published its own article about how leftists are being censored by Google.
BREAKING: MintPress News & @AlanRMacLeod has been banned from PayPal for unspecified reasons.
Help us fight back against this onslaught of censorship: https://t.co/dzLbAlo48o https://t.co/7CkUbXPFQy
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) April 28, 2022
As I wrote in my own article last week about Elon Musk, wherein I covered the history of internet censorship, this Ukraine censorship is the most extreme censorship yet – and there is no explanation for it. With “hate speech” they said you were hurting people’s feelings, they said QAnon was promoting violence, and they said anti-vax was killing people with medical information.
But what about Ukraine? Who is harmed if Americans disagree with the war narrative? There is no explanation, but there doesn’t have to be. It is simply that this goes against the interests of the regime, which doesn’t want people knowing the truth about the Ukraine because if they did they would not support the push for war.
Leftists are probably going to end up majorly censored. Thus far, they have not been considered enough of a threat to bother with, but the Russia war situation seems to change that, where they just don’t want anything at all getting out.
It’s hard to believe it is possible for Elon Musk to come in and change the entire dynamics that the internet has been wrestling with since these censorship campaigns started in 2017, but we remain optimistic.
Elon Musk was one of the founders of PayPal, so after he owns Twitter he could potentially integrate some kind of payment system into it. A payment system based on crypto would be very good.