A central point of the post: > The last posting which I made on my profile related to recent events in Europe. > I wrote that I considered the wave of terror

A central point of the post: > The last posting which I made on my profile related to recent events in Europe. > I wrote that I considered the wave of terror attacks in Germany and France to indicate that a ‘low level Islamist insurgency’ was now taking place in those countries. > A few hours after placing this posting, my account was ‘disabled.’ It is sad that the promise of a media that facilitates worldwide free exchange of thought and speech was voluntarily dismantled. Instead it was transformed in another unidirectional media tightly controlled by corporations. It happened because: - the content creators traded freedom for convenience - the audience preferred centralization to the web of hyperlinks There is still time, unlike radio and television there is still no legislation or regulation preventing people from hosting, creating and broadcasting their own content. It may be hard and ir may be almost too late but is reversible. No company will ever live up to the ideals of freedom of speech, assembly or otherwise. Companies have a goal, and it is to advance the objective of their owners. Anything they may do that give people the impression that they are fair and good is just an artifact, a momentarily alignment between whatever gives that impression and their short term interests.