Anyone who doubts Big Tech is waging a campaign to silence conservatives should examine what’s happening in Afghanistan.
There the Taliban murdered a woman on Tuesday for not wearing a burqa, which covers the entire body from head to toe except a mesh screen for the eyes. According to reports, the Taliban is also beating innocents in the streets and forcing young girls to marry older fighters.
Yet Twitter is allowing Taliban-affiliated accounts to continue using its platform. In fact, the Taliban’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, has an account with well over 300,000 followers and can continue posting videos viewed by millions.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump was banned from Twitter “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Apparently, the Taliban doesn’t threaten violence nearly as much as Trump.
The inconsistency with which Twitter applies its standards is remarkable. That Trump is silenced for questioning the results of the 2020 election while the Taliban is allowed a microphone to preach jihad is indicative of Big Tech’s maniacal push to censor conservatives. It also shows the titans of tech care more about the free speech of America’s enemies than its former presidents.
Of course, this is just one example of a much larger problem that extends beyond Twitter to Facebook, YouTube, and other sites — above all Google.
Zach Vorhies was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google for eight and a half years. While working at YouTube, he learned that Google was censoring “fake news” and investigated further into the matter. What he found was deeply troubling.
Google had not only defined fake news to include actual events that had happened but also created an artificial intelligence system to classify all available data to Google search. The reason Google wanted to classify data was to use its artificial intelligence system to re-rank the entire internet according to Google’s left-wing, progressive values.
In June 2019, Vorhies resigned from Google. He took with him 950-plus pages of internal Google documents and delivered them to the Department of Justice and Project Veritas to inform the public about Google’s extensive censorship system.
Vorhies details all this in his new and important book, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship. I interview Vorhies and discuss what Big Tech is really doing this week on my podcast, “Newt’s World.”
As Vorhies explains, Google was pro-American and essentially believed in libertarianism until 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president. Then, Google changed almost instantly, creating an infrastructure to root out fake news and hate speech as defined by Google’s staffers. Of course, conservatives were the ones targeted.
What’s so striking is the arrogance and entitlement of a few companies in Silicon Valley, which believe they have the right to decide what information we’re allowed to see. More troubling, however, is Google’s push to dominate the flow of information and brainwash the public to support its ideology and version of events.
Vorhies’s account of how far Google is going to realize its vision is reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984. Big Tech is creating a prison for our minds and hopes no one will notice.
Fortunately, the public is waking up to Big Tech’s machinations, led by Google. What the American people must realize is that, if Silicon Valley has its way, in the end we all suffer, not just conservatives.
HD Editor’s Note:
In Newt Gingrich’s interview with Zach Vorhies, the former Google employee described his shock when he realized Google was attempting to “put their thumb on the scale of the election.”
“Is Google really trying to censor the fake news, or are they trying to put their thumb on the scale of the election?” he said. “I started to get this idea that it was the latter, that they were trying to suppress some of the bad news about their preferred candidate.”
Gingrich then asked Vorhies about the culture of silicon valley and what causes these companies to believe “they have the right to define for the rest of us what we are allowed to see?”
“What is it about the culture of silicon valley that leads three of its biggest companies to believe they have the right to define for the rest of us what we are allowed to see? It is really an extraordinary lack of self-awareness, it seems to me, when you have these guys decide that they will be the censors for 325 Million people. What drives that?” Gingrich asked his guest.
“They promised congress they were going to be politically neutral,” Vorhies explained. “They testified under oath they were politically neutral. At the same time, they were designing this widescale total information censorship called machine learning fairness.”
“To my surprise, every time I put a red line in the sand and said, ‘well, google is not going to cross this, that would be un-googly,’ every single line they crossed and crossed it more,” he stated. “It was just this progressive, more authoritarian, more extremist organization that was emerging. As this was happening, the internal rhetoric, the internal brainwashing they were using on their employees, also ramped up.”
When asked if he was worried leaking this information about Google would result in jail time, Vorhies responded that he was more concerned about not being “a coward before the Lord.
“[Jail time] crossed my mind, but I’ll say that it was not nearly as scary as the prospect of proving myself a coward before the Lord,” he explained. “That’s really what gave me the power to be able to fight through all of this. Because at the end of the day if I was a prisoner of conscience that would be a much better outcome than proving that these thoughts that I would do the right thing under adversary would be proven wrong. That I would just continue to eat at the troth of big tech as a high-paid employee, while my country is destroyed. That is something that is intolerable.”
David Fiorazo in his recent article, “Misinformation? The Left’s Campaign for Power,” wrote:
We’ve never seen anything like this in the land of the free! Why? Because propaganda campaigns as well as the monitoring and censoring of citizens is communist policy. Dust off your history books.
Please understand the power of information and how it can be used as a weapon by those in power who control it.
We can no longer say as our great grandparents, ‘that could never happen in America.’ Here we are, friends. This is no longer just an insidious threat to the strength of the nation, it is an open assault on our free republic.
We should all be committed to the truth, but where power censorship is concerned there are no quick fixes. But we can raise awareness as much as possible, support new, Christian, conservative, and independent sites and sources. Regardless of this opposition to the biblical worldview, pray for the Gospel to advance, for open debate, fair elections, respectful disagreements, and freedom of speech in America for all people.
It is no surprise that satan hates those who speak the truth. This has been displayed throughout history, and it is specifically amplified today, just as the Bible outlined it would in the time prior to Jesus Return.
2 Timothy 3:1, 8-9 states that “perilous times” will come in which “men of corrupt minds” will “resist the truth.”
Romans 1:18 similarly states that the “wrath of God is revealed from heaven against” those “who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” The word “hold” in this verse, comes from the Greek word “κατέχω,” which means to “hold back,” “restrain,” or “hinder.”
