The banality of evil and the COVID Twitter Files
"As far as he was concerned, since he had not broken any laws, and had never directly killed anyone himself or asked anyone else to do that for him, he had behaved reasonably. "
The Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
The epicenter of the COVID atrocities has been social media. Social media has channeled public discourse, convincing the public that COVID-19 as a near existential threat with the need for unconventional draconian measures, the danger of conventional anti-viral measures, and the need for participation in the massive pharmaceutical experiment. Social media was instrumental in creating the illusion of consensus on all of the above. Social media enabled the COVID atrocities.
The Twitter Files begin to provide an insight into the internal machinations of one of the largest media Goliaths in supporting the COVID atrocities. David Zweig was given access to internal files from Twitter and has provided a narrative to the company’s handling of the accounts of some influential dissenters to the medical establishment.
What is most striking about the Zweig narrative is the banality of COVID censorship decisions that were fundamentally totalitarian. Tweet #17 states:
“… Third, most importantly, the buck stopped with higher level employees at Twitter who chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, and subjectively decided escalated cases and suspensions. As it is with all people and institutions, there was individual and collective bias”
What is less clear from that narrative is how Twitter came to believe that it had the authority to adjudicate the truth. In that self-perception, Twitter's activity in COVID-19 is in a league with that of the most ruthless dictators of history. In its diligent censorship, Twitter, and undoubtedly all of the other tech platforms, enabled in the brutalization of the public
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