{"id":11476,"date":"2020-10-22T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=11476"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:17:56","slug":"677-ideologues-against-ideas-the-left-versus-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/11476","title":{"rendered":"677 &#8211; Ideologues against ideas: the Left versus the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/677-GermsInTheAir-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11477\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20201022-justRIGHT-677-IDEOLOGUESagainstIDEAS-LEFTvsRIGHT.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\nAs we head into the final weeks before the American election, censorship and editorial interference on social media has reached an unprecedented level.  <strong>Over the past week, hundreds of on-line commentators and reporters on the Right were unceremoniously removed from platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In justifying its censorship, YouTube posted notices which read:  \u201cThis account has been terminated <strong>due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube\u2019s policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully, or threaten.\u201d<\/strong>  No specifics given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It should be self-evident that the only thing being \u201cthreatened\u201d is the ideology of the Left.<\/strong>  What is being censored is the ideas of the Right.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with all the fake news propagated by the mainstream media, <strong>the continual oppression of free speech is having its desired effect.<\/strong> This can be seen in the public\u2019s <strong>broad compliance with fascist rules and regulations that should never be tolerated in any free society.<\/strong>  Such blind obedience has now become an incredible threat to individual freedom.  <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sad fact that most people have great difficulty in determining what is true and therefore do not trust their own judgement, even when presented with all the information needed.  Invariably they concur with \u201cpublic opinion,\u201d an opinion largely controlled by a false narrative based on ideology and censorship, not on objective ideas.  <\/p>\n<p>Whether for good or for evil, <strong>ideas move the world.<\/strong>  Only with freedom of speech and the means to express (and hear!) that speech, can one reliably distinguish between what is just ideology and the ideas that are Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/677-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/677-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into the final weeks before the American election, censorship and editorial interference on social media has reached an unprecedented level. Over the past week, hundreds of on-line commentators and reporters on the Right were unceremoniously removed from platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. In justifying its censorship, YouTube posted notices which read: <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/11476' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,596,28,629,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-ideas","category-latest","category-objectivism","category-politics","category-reality","issues-ideology","issues-social-media-censorship","issues-youtube","personalities-wilhelm-reich","category-12-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-629-id","category-6-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11481,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions\/11481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}