Why Apple and Google Will Soon Start Screening Your Calls and Messages

Well, in some sense all smartphones screen your calls, but it's dependent upon the settings you choose. For instance, you can have them screen against a known-spammer database. You can screen for favorites or contacts only.

This sort of thing can be valuable to their customers and it's completely at their discretion.

The last few years—beginning with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, then continuing with Covid and all that's associated—has seen an enormous trend and increase in Big-Tech censorship of "controversial" content posted by its users.

Much of this censorship, cancelling, and deplatforming was and is at the behest of other platform users, employees, special-interest institutions, and even the governments of of the word. Censorship of ideas—no matter how misguided or wrong—has always been a hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes. Now, it's done by publicly-traded companies while governments get around laws prohibiting them from acting directly to censor, so they instead put pressure on the Big-Tech companies to do so.

There's 2 parts to this video. The first is about Apple and Google making the Telegram app available for your personal interaction with the Telegram service and other users and creators on the platform.

But they maintain a "back door" or sorts. If they don't like some of the channels you like and are subscribed to, they can simply forbid you from seeing them by blocking them right in the app...just like your mommy wouldn't let you have access to Playboy Magazine...

[I have a new Telegram Channel that's not censored, so far.
https://t.me/FreeTheAnimalCom]

The second is about the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' rejection of a lower court's injunction of a recent Texas law forbidding Big-Tech social media giants from censoring Texans based on political viewpoints.

Very interesting and astute arguments, giving some cause for hope.

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