The Effect of Censorship

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Media is a huge part of modern day American culture. Sports and hobbies can be shared, videos can be watched, and everyone’s favorite celebrities and athletes can be as transparent as ever. Another major use for the media is to spread information about politics and current events. This is where the problems begin.

The media has a certain way of functioning, and it may be vastly different than you think. Major media is aligned with the Democratic Party. When it comes to politics, now more than ever, Americans rely on the media to get informed. It is the main source for feeding information to Americans about the most crucial issues in this country.

Social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as news networks such as CNN and NBC, are all part of a mass monopoly controlled by one collective mindset. It even led to an antitrust lawsuit by the DOJ against Google. This wouldn’t be a problem if all people were fair and objective, but they aren’t. This monopoly, which has a major impact on America, has one collective view, and anyone who speaks out against what they believe, are censored, no questions asked. They push their Democratic, and at times, far left views on issues in an effort to change your opinion.

Of course, as human’s God given right to have their own opinion, along with their constitutional right to free speech, they are bound to share their views with everyone, and in a year like 2020, many discussions about invigorating topics have emerged.

At the front end of the year, the incoming COVID-19 pandemic was a topic for debate. How do we handle it? What do we do? But most importantly, how was it created, and how did it get here? About seven months later, none of those questions have been sufficiently answered. 

The sitting president handled it the way he thought was best, and there was bound to be criticism. The simple fact, no matter who was the president, once the Coronavirus left China, where it originated, there was no preventing it from coming to the U.S. and massively spreading. No one on the face of the Earth could have prevented that. 

However, whether you agree or disagree on how the current presidential administration had handled the situation they were dealt, the crucial discussion of how it was created and how it got here were discussions that needed to be had. 

China claimed that it was from their “wet markets,” which deals with the buying and selling of fresh meat and fish, and since China has a huge impact on the success of this country, the government was forced to accept their word as the truth

 There were a few journalists who were interested in researching further . Many believed that China had lied, to prevent animosity from developing. After many months into the pandemic, it became a widely accepted statement that Coronavirus came unintentionally from China.

 Any reporter or newscaster that dared to question that, or try to prove otherwise was seen as a threat to this country. That was until a virologist from China named Li-Meng Yan came to America and did a Fox News interview detailing her findings. She concluded indefinitely that Coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab, and was intentionally brought to the U.S. solely for the benefit of China. The Democratic party would not accept this, and left wing media agreed. They all ignored it. Any reasonable person would be open to new data, and facts, but not the radical left. They were set on their views because that’s what they believed was best for them to win this upcoming election, and defeat President Trump. Anyone who even dared to ask, or suggest that we should ask any questions beyond what we were told to believe by China, were designated as insane.

That was just the start. Next up, was the discussion of the police. Started by George Floyd, liberal media was quick to boost the movement that all cops are at fault for the wrongdoing of one. This continued with the deaths of Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, and the shooting of Jacob Blake. Not only did they hide facts, they reported completely false information. They hid logical facts of each case, just because it could even suggest in the slightest that the victim was actually at fault. 

Sources like CNN were so focused on pushing their agenda, that they left out details that everyone must know. It was so widespread that once protests began, it was only a matter of time until these propaganda news organizations reported more false information. They hid the true nature of these “protests” in the streets of some of the biggest cities in this country. They hid that not only were there “protests”, but there was predominant rioting, looting, burning of buildings, shootings of citizens and cops, mass armed robberies, and all the unrest and destruction you can imagine. 

All of this was led by the radical political party called Black Lives Matter. The ideologies of Black Lives Matter have drastically changed. It was once an organization with a sole purpose to bring awareness for social justice, an issue certainly in need of mention. However, now it has become an organization of many violent people. They have spent the last six months in the streets of massive American cities rioting and looting. You would expect major media to alert the American public to these serious current issues occurring. That’s not how it went though. Since these violent demonstrators were a part of Black Lives Matter, it was accepted to not commend them no matter what they did. If anyone spoke out against the violence, and started to question how or why it continued to occur without any consequences, they were labeled as a “white supremacist” and a racist.

 When Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a black man, said that “violence and mob justice is not justice,” following the grand jury decision not to indict three police officers on murder charges after the law was correctly interpreted, far left media, on the side of Black Lives Matter and the democrats, called him a race traitor.

All of this violence occurred in the first place because many mayors across American cities began to succumb to the violence, and the demands to defund, and in some cases, eliminate entire divisions of police departments. Stripping the police of authority empowers criminals, which is what the people rioting are.

They also hid facts about other police-involved incidents, including the true circumstances of the situation, the chronological order of events, and any other details that may interfere with what they want you to believe happened in that situation. They just sat back and relied on the violence in the streets to send their message with people holding their “defund the police” signs while Macy’s burns behind them and gunshots ring in the background. It should be widely agreed upon that police presence enforces law and order. Defunding the police empowers criminals.

The latest issue to expose this national problem is the accusation of the scandal between Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The laptop with emails including many telling of his scandal with Ukraine has been verified as real. The New York Post was the first to report on this crucial, potentially history altering scandal. They were censored, then disabled by Twitter for posting “harmful information”. 

Joe Biden’s campaign hasn’t denied that they are legitimate, nor has anyone come up with proof to refute its legitimacy. Far left media is pushing that this scandal is “Russian misinformation”, although the emails between Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and Ukrainian officials have been confirmed as legitimate. The Democratic party hasn’t denied their legitimacy either. Although they haven’t been asked much to explain, nor do they have any verified facts to discredit the accusation.

Media members, playing along with the goal of censorship haven’t asked Joe Biden any questions about this Ukrainian scandal. The only journalist to ask the democratic candidate to comment, was attacked first by Joe Biden himself, then by the rest of the industry. Two weeks before a presidential election, crucial, logical and legitimate information is being censored from the American public all for the benefit of the left.

Thinking logically, if this scandal had been exposed two weeks before the election and Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr. was being accused with Donald Trump as the president, left wing media would report it faster then you could imagine. 

This is the problem with censorship. Media is so one-sided, that the American public is unable to be informed and therefore unable to form their own opinion. Censorship has turned into a much more drastic issue than it’s ever been. You obviously can’t scream “fire” in a movie theater, or post on social media premeditating a crime, but you absolutely should be able to post your own opinion, and more importantly, facts without being censored by a corrupt tech tyranny. Always remember, this is America, not China.

Ryan Shih