Multinational Corporations attack Facebook and Twitter. Should we be worried?

Starbucks, Adidas, Unilever, Coca Cola, Ford, HP have all said they will boycott Facebook over hate speech. (Reuters). In July over a 1000 advertisers joined forces to boycott Facebook and Twitter if they disagreed with content. Not surprisingly Twitter and Facebook simply fold when put under advertiser pressure.

I do not like Facebook or Twitter. I do not like Multinational Corporations. Had one Multinational decided to place their advertising elsewhere I would have been happy. This combining of Multinationals to impose their will is something altogether different, it is about Corporate power.

Just the six Corporations can throw around the same financial weight as a medium sized national economy but they have no democratic mandate. Were six billionaire oligarchs to sit on a stage and declare to the world how they were going to control various publications globally to ensure that their ideals were obeyed there would be outrage. Indeed there probably should be outrage about the corporate control of the current media, let alone this new development. How has it come to pass that control by six Multinational Corporations is accepted by the UK Broadcast Media? This is a much bigger issue than "fake news" or misinformation.

These six corporations are just the thin end of the wedge. The Oligarchs are meeting regularly in organisations such as the Trilateral Commission*, Bilderberg, The Council for Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum. They are combining so that they can further their own agenda. It starts with actions that most people can accept or ignore but once we have been softened up they will hit when it has most effect for their profits and power.

Organised corporate activity in politics on this scale must be stopped. It will destroy democracy. The battle has always been between plutocracy and democracy.

Photo: Business Managed Democracy

Trilateral Commission. Source: Technocracy News

Notice all the Black and Female faces. These Corporate bosses are not paragons of equality and human rights, they are just Users, using whatever is necessary to get power and money. Don't be taken in.

30/6/2020

*Keir Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission

See The Great War: Corporatism vs Freedom

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