Big Tech: 'A Tool For Totalitarian Fascism'

"Big Tech Has Become A Tool Of Totalitarian Fascism" - Google Has 'Memory-Holed' The Great Barrington Declaration

Tyler Durden

Many who have been closely following coverage of the 2nd wave of the virus hammering Europe have heard Europe's leaders explain to indignant reporters how their lockdown-free approach differs from an outright 'herd immunity' strategy question, as well as the growing acceptance of lockdown-free approaches to tackling the coronavirus (even as Sweden imposes new restrictions as Europe's second wave looms). Just yesterday in the UK, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said a return to 'lockdown' status within London was "inevitable", even as London's infection rate lags the hot spots in northern England (in and around Manchester, as well as a few other areas) by a sizable margin.

Leaders in Europe have all warned that returning to a national lockdown would be an absolute last resort, as their economies struggle to recover from the springtime mass closures that wrought unprecedented havoc on the real economy (even if it hasn't always translated over to the market).

But an even bigger threat to the status quo engineered by Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx and their colleagues around the world is the sudden emergence in academia of a credible, and vocal, chorus of dissent, as researchers who are luminaries in their field speak out against lockdowns.

But we digress. As many of the springtime hotspots from around the world - densely populated areas like Madrid and Paris - suffer through second waves that are equally, if not more, punishing than the first round, more laypeople are starting to question: what was this all for?

And whatever happened to Dr. Fauci saying that the goal was to "flatten the curve" so hospitals aren't overwhelmed? Not force businesses to close for longer than 6 months, destroying the livelihoods of millions, as we hope and pray for the FDA to expedite approval of a vaccine.

Well, on Oct. 4, a group of scientists from Oxford, Harvard, Stanford and other distinguished academic institutions from around the world published the Great Barrington Declaration, a brief statement offering an alternative public policy approach. Instead of mandating business closures, lockdowns should be lifted, and a shift to "focused protection" should be implemented. Resources should be focused to protect the vulnerable (the elderly and those with CDC-designated risk factors). The young and health population should be allowed to live normally, with the hope that they would eventually build up immunity.

But since the approach challenges the status quo in the US, a position that Democrats have embraced at risk of their political reputations, big tech has rallied to try and censor the Great Barrington Declaration. First Reddit buried discussion of the declaration; now Google has "memory holed" the declaration, as one Twitter user explains.

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