If, as I have seen, Banks, and media providers, collude to defund people they disagree with, then this is organized censorship. I am thinking mass filings of lawsuits could be salutary. If the administrators of public universities encourage faculty members to urge protest and riot against invited speakers, then this is censorship. The practice is to organize supportive students to riot in favor of censoring an invite, and the call campus police in, because, magically, "It is not a safe environment for the students!" So, this is a tactic that will go on for a bit more under the new acien' regime, I expect because only a few loudmouth speakers are affected. As long as there are alternative media platforms, Twits or FB can set their own policy, If they do like Apple and Amazon with eliminating platforms then most people, eventually, will likely have a problem. So, what then might be the inflection point for a fight against censorship, or rather the forces behind progressive censorship? My thinking is that when the new regime's policies achieve hyperinflation, increased unemployment, electricity blackouts start occurring regularly, gasoline prices go massively upwards, as does, food (sorry, Tesla no replacing 50 million gas buggies), If the Kamala-Sue Rice leadership produces a prosperity, post 2nd Vax, then the skies are forever blue for Team, Progressive. It's axiomatic!
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jan 20, 2021 1:38 pm Subject: Re: FW: Q Anon is the tip of the iceberg On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 9:05:18 AM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom ... What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth … that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the crime of merely believing that there might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance. To which Ben Says: Enough! And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben. Philip Benjamin That is good for a laugh. Ben Stein is an actor, he has no scientific credentials. He is also an arch right winger who supports anything that comes out of Faux News. 10 or 12 years ago he went on a silly crusade to "expose" how academics were losing positions for espousing creationism. If you are on the faculty of a biology department and espouse such things it should not be surprising you are refused tenure. In physics if somebody started to teach aether theory and rejected relativity much the same would happen. It could not happen any other way. This is not about censorship. First off, the first Amendment is not about how any organization has to allow anything said or published. It is just about how the Federal government cannot legislate against certain speech that is not meant to incite violence or slander. So this does mean you are not free to yell FIRE in a theater or to accuse somebody of things falsely. It does not mean that a scientific journal cannot reject a paper by some wannabe physicist who has their great unified field theory they are certain of. Get on Facebook to see tons of that crap. Knowledge is something distilled through a sieve, or better put a Bayesian regression that narrows things down as with the game of 20 questions. Thing that fail, well ---- they simply fail and are discarded. Religion has failed utterly in allowing us to understand the world. The weltanschauung of religion has failed miserably; its track record of matching what is measured and knows is crummy. This includes biological evolution. It also fails with the whole idea of there being some designer. The Intelligent Design and Irreducible complexity arguments have failed the tests. LC-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/49241a55-c8de-4b55-9b74-06f13f7902fbn%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/982107994.3762024.1611188503042%40mail.yahoo.com.
