I had a Facebook account for a time, at the urging of a friend who lauded the site, I accessed and signed up. I never posted to it, (do they call them posts?), I never even looked at my profile options and never once had an urge to create a profile. So, basically, what I am saying is I have never used a social media account.
No to Twitter. No to Facebook, (again I admit to once having an account there which went completely unused). No to,... well there must be other sites that qualify as social media. I have not used them.
Blogs? Yes, I have participated.
But, basically my initial distrust/lack of interest in social media has been shown to be prudent. Prudent for an American who wants people around him who can be trusted. Prudent for one who believes in the Bill of Rights and the limited government they promise. Prudent for anyone who does not want mean paople in their life.
So, the America-hating totalitarians running social media sites Twitter and Facebook can not block me from their sites. But, they are as persistent as they are pervasive, you can not write totalitarian without total, and I expect they are running algorithms which will ferret out this post and soon I will be cancelled, doxxed, etc., but they can not silence me.
If they take away my ability to post to this blog, if they take away my ability to sometimes post comments to the writings of others, they will not have succeeded in keeping my mouth shut as I walk about. And, given my demeanor, (calm, thoughtful, quietly strong), given my obvious intelligence, and given my will to be heard when I find it important, they will not have silenced my most effective way of sharing my views.
But, they want total control; so, they will come for my voice too? History says it always happens in totalitarian Banana Republics.
