Darrell Castle talks about the de-platforming of Alex Jones and his InfoWars channel, as well as the New York Times hiring of an overt racist to its editorial board.

Transcript/Notes

THE DEEP STATE MOVES TO SILENCE DISSENT

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, August 10, 2018, and on this Report I will be talking about the coordinated attack by deep state corporate tech giants such as Facebook, Apple, Google/ You Tube, and Spotify.  Since virtually everyone else is also talking about this subject, I will try give some different information, such as some legal arguments as to why being private might not shelter these particular corporations this time.

It is common for those on the left to express hatred of capitalism and to rejoice when an anti-capitalist is elected, yet they trust the capitalist, massive, unaccountable corporations to decide for all of us what we are able to listen to and discuss.  Thanks to their demands, global corporations now govern the public sphere, and decide what speech is permissible and what is not.

These are private corporations and therefore not subject to first amendment restrictions, or so they believe, but they are also bigger, more powerful, and certainly richer than many governments.  They are so big and so powerful that they are virtually an arm of the government, as Ron Paul has charged. Part of the coordinated attack I spoke of earlier was against the director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and Dr. Paul had some things to say about it in an interview on Tuesday.  “While social media could be a real delight and very informative the biggest role social networks are playing is working with the government.  The government is indirectly regulating free speech through companies like Twitter and Facebook.  He went on to say “You get accused of treasonous activity and treasonous speech because in an empire of lies the truth is treason.  Challenging the status quo is what they can’t stand and it unnerves them, so they have to silence people”

Therefore, the tech giants are acting on behalf of government to the point where they have become virtually an agent of government.  They allow the government to control speech through them as surrogate companies.  There is a case, I believe, from the California Supreme Court that holds them to be similar to public utilities and Twitter has been recently sued on that premise in the case of Taylor v. Twitter.  If you look at normal media such as the New York Times, that paper has control over editorial content.  If it hires a profane racist to its editorial board, it is responsible for the content of what she puts in that paper and can be sued if she prints libel.

The internet companies, on the other hand, argue that they have no control over content and do not edit what goes on the internet in any way.  They just try to keep violent, hateful, speech off their media.  That premise is easily refuted when you research the many sites where Antifa has posted actual calls for political violence, etc., so they do, in fact, control content.

Alex Jones is shut down, de-platformed, shadow-banned, eliminated from the public sphere, or however you want to say it.  His millions of subscribers are deprived of the opportunity to hear his views, watch his videos, listen to his rants, etc.  He and his audience were starting to challenge some of the major networks for viewership and thus he was getting to be a bit of a problem for them.  Keep in mind that Alex has been doing the same things for decades, but now, all of a sudden he has to be taken down.  So all within a 24 hour period, Alex and much of his Infowars channel, has been banned from Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and Google/You Tube.  Even Linked In took him down and he doesn’t even post there as I understand it.

 When Apple decided to ban him entirely, not just some episodes, the other online giant companies followed suit.  So,