Thread by @brett7three

Let me just put these next two #tweets in sequence.

China Assigns Every Citizen A ‘Social Credit Score’ To Identify Who Is And Isn’t Trustworthy newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/24/chi… via @CBS (local #NewYork) #Censorship #Orwellian

Facebook has TRUST ratings for users – but it won't tell you your score thesun.co.uk/tech/7067261/f… via @TheSun #Censorship #Orwellian

Folks, these #Orwellian tactics by #SocialMedia giants that some politicians are all too comfortable with are taking our free society backwards. #Freedom #FreeSpeech

Why are certain politicians unwilling to call this out for what it is? Why isn't there an outcry by all political parties against this nonsense? Agenda much? If such horrid tactics move your agenda forward, maybe your "agenda" is wrong for the rest of us?

It's as if "the powers that be" insult our intelligence so much by thinking that we cannot sift through what is potentially false news from what is possibly real?

I know (Personally) many "REAL News" stories that were initially dubbed "conspiracy theory" or "fake" & later found to be true. Examples include, "Dennis Hastert's" crimes & #IRSGate.

Once the overpowered bureaucRATS, technocRATS & plutocRATS have the power to decide "for you" what is a real story & what is "#FakeNews" is the moment they can hide their crimes behind the same label. In fact, I would suggest they've been doing that for years. (See prior tweet)

Furthermore, the moment you allow these parties to make decisions about what is "real" versus what is "fake" for you is the moment that you give up your power to them. That leaves it easy for a tyrant to take over.

A tyrant of the future will derive their power from the systems that facilitate their tyranny. The complacent generations that allowed these systems to be put into place without proper checks, balances & VISION, are the enablers.

I believe the reason President Eisenhower shared his "warnings" to the American people during his farewell address were due to his seeing this shaping before him. He had the vision & intelligence to imagine it.

Having known "wild" conspiracy theories that later turned out to be "real news", I just don't trust "given narratives" anymore. I have a story to tell about all of it that draws in even stranger but plausible scenarios. It's a small circle.

Don't let anyone else do your thinking. Don't ridicule a thinker.

Don't be just "another one of the crabs" in the "bucket of crabs".

You might end up in an “#EchoChamber of you”. Look at it on the bright side... it’s like being an army of one! #Censorship @jack

https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/1031616332209577985?s=21