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<\/a><\/p>\nby Michael Snyder
\nthe most important news<\/p>\n
Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today.\u00a0 But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged.\u00a0 Global corporations just continue to get larger and more powerful, and in recent years they have been increasingly using that power to shape society.\u00a0 This is a very dangerous trend, because in the western world many of the constraints that our national governments are forced to operate under simply do not apply to corporations.\u00a0 This gives them an enormous amount of leverage, and they are using it.<\/p>\n
Here in the United States, the federal government still has a monopoly on power in areas such as border security, national defense and foreign policy.<\/p>\n
But when it comes to the things that matter the most in the day to day lives of most Americans, it could be argued that the giant corporations have now become more powerful than the federal government.<\/p>\n
For example, our politicians like to brag about how many jobs that they have \u201ccreated\u201d, but the truth is that they don\u2019t actually create any jobs unless you want to count useless government desk jobs.<\/p>\n
Our politicians can help to foster an environment that will be favorable for economic growth, but it is the corporations that really determine whether the economy will grow or not.<\/p>\n
In fact, it could be argued that the corporations are the economy at this point.<\/p>\n
Over time, it has become increasingly difficult for any American to become truly independent of the corporate system.\u00a0 Even if you own a small business or you work for yourself, there is a good chance that you depend on the big corporations in many ways.<\/p>\n
If you doubt this, just try to \u201cgo it on your own\u201d without ever using any corporate products, without ever dealing with a big tech company, and without ever bringing in any income from any corporate source whatsoever.<\/p>\n
These days, most of our lives are defined by our corporate overlords.\u00a0 They decide what job you will have, what your pay will be, what hours you will work and what your health plan will look like.<\/p>\n
Beyond that, now many large corporations have decided that there are certain beliefs, opinions and values that their employees are not permitted to have.<\/p>\n
By now, you have probably heard that a certain actress was fired by Disney for having opinions that were not acceptable.\u00a0 That was a very high profile case, but the truth is that this sort of thing is constantly happening all over the country at this point.<\/p>\n
As we move into the future, being guilty of \u201cthought crime\u201d is going to eliminate large blocks of people from ever having certain types of jobs.\u00a0 If you do not pledge fealty to the current version of political correctness, you simply will not be permitted to hold a prominent position in society.<\/p>\n
If your beliefs are considered to be \u201coffensive\u201d, you may get to mop the floors for the elite if you are lucky.<\/p>\n
Even when you are at home, the elite want to endlessly monitor and control what you do, say and think.\u00a0 The primary way that they do this is through the Internet, and in recent months they have tightened their control considerably.\u00a0 The following comes from an opinion piece that was just authored\u00a0by former U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n Consider the events of the last month. Social media sites banned the sitting president of the United States from their platforms. A purge of conservative voices on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0ensued.\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u00a0Web Services expunged Parler, a conservative social media site, from the internet. Just days later, YouTube\u00a0blocked<\/a>\u00a0public access to a\u00a0Senate<\/a>\u00a0hearing on COVID-19.<\/p>\n These events confirmed what many of us have long known: true political power no longer resides in Washington, but in Silicon Valley. Big Tech now effectively decides who has the right to speak, who has the right to assemble online and who has the ability to build a business in the digital age. For many Americans, Twitter\u2019s terms of service agreement now has more power over what they can and cannot say in the public square than the First Amendment does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In the old days, Americans could go to the public square and say anything that they want.<\/p>\n But now the big tech companies are the public square.<\/p>\n Freedom of speech is a thing of the past on the Internet, and more voices are being \u201cdeplatformed\u201d with each passing day.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, it was\u00a0LifeSiteNews<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews YouTube channel. This isn\u2019t a temporary ban; every single one of our videos is completely gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This greatly grieved me, because so many other pro-life voices have already been silenced.\u00a0 We desperately need those voices, because if we stay on the path that we are currently on,\u00a0there is no future for America<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Twitter suspended Project Veritas.<\/p>\n Project Veritas would like to continue to share their information in the public square, and I would like to continue to share it with my readers.\u00a0 In fact, I share Project Veritas videos\u00a0on The Most Important News<\/a>\u00a0all the time.<\/p>\n But Twitter has decided that Project Veritas has become too offensive.<\/p>\n