The gag laws on the internet

Internet supersites, such as Google and Facebook, have declared war on false news; we still need to see how will it work, although obviously will be with some type of filter, to function as a virtual censorship. Curiously, the announcement coincides with the defeat of the Democratic Party candidate in the US election; Who happened to be the favorite of these internet empires, accused of filtering information about it on their sites, which function as virtual monopolies of information. Even more serious, the Democratic candidate was the clear favorite of the big media and information conglomerates; Which aligned with the false liberalism of the democratic elite, which actually functions as a new right.

Actually, the Democratic party still refuses to recognize that its campaign was defective, since the imposition of that candidate, with manipulations that soon came to light; apart the connivance of those media, which exalt that precandidate, while denying all visibility to the popular favorite. Between the rosary of sins distributed by the Democratic party in its inconsistency, is the dissemination of false information; which in purity refers to the campaign of discredit over his candidate, more characterized by consistency and exaggeration than by lies; as it consisted mainly of the repetition and echo of information given by sites like Wikileaks, which were not lies.

That is the worrying, the will of the networks to filter the information, imposing a virtual gag law; which would obviously block the flow of alternative sources, as a resource outside of that media monopoly. It should be remembered that defamation, libel and reliability of sources are the usual justifications of totalitarian regimes; that with the pretension of safeguarding the truth imposes its gag laws and restrictions to the flow of information, on which they exert an effective monopoly. It should also be remembered that these supersites usually have harmonious relationships with those regimes, to whose demands they are folded; be it the Chinese or the Cuban government, which does not even open their domains completely, just to give an example.

It is useless to protest before the arrogance and elitism of this false liberalism, that obviously will not change this projection of his; because what is involved here is a political culture, based on the open manipulation of the masses, embedded in that prefabricated model of a popular culture. However, it would be good if they took into account that their monopolies are virtual and not effective, and participation in them is timely and voluntary; and even in the case of an apotheosis of the so-called technological singularity, the consumption of information is and always will be an individual power.

In this sense, the decline of the mass media could be economic, but it is also a cultural phenomenon; which responds to their growing irrelevance, parallel and proportional to that same arrogance with which they posed as a fourth of the conventional powers. So too, people may find that they do not need the ego boost that networks bring them, as the only benefit for their aboriginal consumer loyalty; and that can coincide with the deflation of that pyramidal system that feeds the networks with the myth of the advertising industry, in a market already saturated and without real content.

It is not a prediction, which is impossible at this stage of the complexity of cultural problems; but it would be a fate as logical as the shameful defeat of that Democratic candidate in front of the most improbable Republican. In fact, this controversial electoral process has substance to more than one conspiracy theory; beginning with Bill Clinton's encouragement of Trump's candidacy, and through the latter's sloppy rhetoric, which allows to doubt he was really interested in the presidency. More important than all this, and as a warning to those claims of arbitration of information, it would be this very real power of the reality; which throws unthinkable and paradoxical results into the face of those who believes so clever themselves that can manipulate it.