Free speech social media platforms like Gab have long been banned from payment processors like PayPal. Now, they are facing even harsher economic punishments traditionally reserved for rogue regimes like North Korea.

Free speech software company Gab has announced that it has been blacklisted by Visa for “promoting hate speech.”

“Gab does no such thing,” its CEO Andrew Torba responded. “This is like saying Google ‘promotes hate speech’ because you can search racial slurs on their search engine and get results. Gab is a neutral technology platform. We follow the law, have an excellent relationship with law enforcement, and have a clear set of community guidelines that detail what is allowed on our website and what is not.” [Reclaim The Net]

There is no clear definition of so-called “hate-speech” because it is not a fixed concept with meaning. Rather, it is a term of psychological warfare employed by our corrupt globalist elite against anyone who dares question the narratives that keep them in power.

So-Called “Hate Speech” has no other meaning than speech the corrupt ruling class hates and wants to silence.

“These banks have no problem processing payments for pornography websites which are loaded with child exploitation, human trafficking, and more,” wrote Torba. “They have no problem processing payments for cannabis, which is still illegal at the federal level. They have no problems processing payments for gambling websites.” [Reclaim The Net]

Of course, there is no real contradiction here. Pornography, cannabis and gambling keep the population docile and compliant. Access to information that circumvents the increasingly narrow range of perspectives approved by the corrupt ruling class and their Corporate media instruments? Well, that is dangerous and unacceptable.

Last year, Apple admitted that Gab’s Dissenter iOS app, a mobile version of Gab’s dissenter browser, didn’t violate any of the App Store’s terms but rejected it anyway on the grounds that Gab’s other products outside of the App Store contained “defamatory and mean-spirited content.”

Google also booted the Gab app from its Google Play Store last year because it contained “objectionable user-generated content.”

Gab’s Dissenter comments extension was also banned by both the Google Chrome Web Store and Firefox extensions gallery within 24 hours of each other over user-generated content. [Reclaim The Net]

This is Freedom and Democracy in 2020 America.

These companies collectively act as major gatekeepers to consumers’ desktop and mobile devices with Chrome and Firefox having a 77% desktop web browser market share, Apple’s App Store being the only way to install apps on an iPhone, and Google’s Play store being the main way consumers install apps on Android phones. [Reclaim The Net]

The market share stats are legal grounds for Anti-Trust action. If the United States had serious leadership, this action would be taken promptly and decisively.

Despite the bromides that you may hear, there is no “marketplace of ideas.” There is instead a battle-ground for control over the distribution channels and financial networks necessary to access and disseminate ideas and the narratives in which they are packaged.

Only when the American people begin to address the challenges at that level will they be able to take back free speech from the globalists who aim to rip out our tongues. The fight for liberty is far from over.