The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Major Social Media Clampdowns Coming SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER Isn’t it interesting how after every falseflag-style event, we are invariably treated to a series of mountingly draconian restrictions which end up  never  being removed, even long after the inciting threat has been dispelled and no longer exists? The Patriot Act clamp-downs which ushered in an era of privacy invasion, including unleashing an unhinged TSA onto unsuspecting Americans, capable of violating them physically in the most sacrosanct ways possible, were never repealed, but rather continue to be renewed each year, despite the fact that ‘Al-Qaeda’ has long ostensibly ceased to exist as a coherent organization. It’s a simple axiomatic fact that power only takes, it never gives—or particularly—gives  back  anything of itself. It’s with no surprise that we now learn that the Pentagon plans to use the recent ‘leaks’ debacle to effect an unprecedented clamp-down on social media. The Pentagon now bel...