I got knocked off Xcrement yesterday – for my “violent” speech. That is to say, a comment of mine the algorithm did not like. I posted something to the effect that Klaus Schwab and his sort ought to be put through a wood chipper and the slurry fed to the hogs. Specifically, the algorithm says I violated the rule that says “You may not share abusive content, harass someone, or encourage other people to do.”

Well, so much for free speech.

What is “abusive” content? It is something like “the common good” in that both are neatly elastic terms that can encompass just about anything. There is no precise – and so knowable – definition. It is the antithesis of free speech when you are unable to know in advance what you’re allowed to say without triggering speech suppression. This method restrains speech a priori, as the philosophers say. It is a little like holding your tongue at the Thanksgiving table because you know that if you say anything your mother-in-law does not like, there will be consequences.

What Thomas Paine wrote in Common sense was surely regarded as “abusive” by George III, but it was a manlier era and grown men dealt with affronts differently once. In our time, we are corralled by an algorithm. It is effronterous as well as effeminate all around. The (supposed) presumption being that grown men (and women) are to delicate to see words that affront them and must be protected from such “abuse” by an opaque algorithm that operates kind of like a unseeable schoolmarm who can smack you on the back of the head at any time, just because she can.

Which is what Xcrement’s algorithm did. “We’ve temporarily limited some of your account features,” reads the notice I was sent. I was informed I could “learn more” by clicking a provided link. Whatever happened to the more forthright and manly: For more information . . .? The shrink-dicked soy boy who came up with “learn more” ought to be . . . put through the wood chipper and the slurry fed to the hogs. I can state that here, without fear that I will be smacked on the back of the head by the schoolmarm. Because here there is free speech. Literally as well as operationally.

Literally, because EPautos does not demand money for speech. To “boost” your speech – and suppress/sideline it if you don’t pony up. Operationally, because you can speak freely here without worrying about offending a schoolmarmish algorithm.

Xcrement is not like that. Which is it is excrement. It is also something worse because, after all, excrement is a natural part of life. Xcrement, on the other hand, is the unnatural creation of (probably) the intelligence apparat of the Deep State, currently owned by a billionaire technocrat grifter who has the gall to charge for “reach” and call that “free” speech. And even that paid-for “reach” is subject to being batted down at any time by opaque algorithms and terms-and-conditions that come down to: We can suppress you at any time and for any reason and are under no obligation to specifically define the reason, either in advance or after the fact.

Xcrement demanded I delete the “abusive” post in order to have my account “restored to functionality.” This is a prequel of the future that Musk and his fellow technocrats have in mind for us. It is a future in which we all must play by their rules and these rules are vaguely defined and so easily applied. The lure they hope we bite is that we will get to participate in their system and the stick is the dread so many have of being excluded from it. They play, in other words, on the psychology of social animals, which is what human beings are – to further that which is as profoundly anti-human as can be imagined. A fake and gay online netherworld of unreal interaction controlled by an algorithm, with no appeal to a human being even possible.

Xcrement and Facebook – indeed, all centralized “social media” – is as bad for human beings as high fructose corn syrup and canola oil. The more it is consumed, the worse our health (mental and physical) becomes.

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