The elite Nazi soldiers who ran the concentration camps and committed all those heinous atrocities on the eastern front had absolute loyalty to the Fuhrer and absolute power without limit.
They were the “schutzstaffel” or “protection squadron.”
And yet, for all their power and influence upon history, the SS was virtually unknown to the German people. Nobody knew what was really happening in the labor camps or on the eastern front.
The World Wide Web
Expand your context to the entire internet spanning the whole world. It’s inconceivable that anyone could exert SS-type of overwhelming influence in such a transparent society. Well – isn’t it?
If you want to say anything in the least bit political – much less conservative or controversial – you will be banned from conventional media. There’s always the web. Right?
Hackers Anonymous
There are thousands of moving parts for WordPress-style websites, the new standard. The software itself has thousands of vulnerabilities, and the servers running the platform have thousands more weaknesses. Typically there are thousands of other websites on the same server, all with their own set of vulnerabilities, all providing “backdoor” access to your own site, no matter how secure you make it.
A controversial website will soon have more visitors from hacker’s automated bots than real visitors. A small website with “Nazi” in the URL will almost immediately get a thousand hacker hits a day; spikes up to a hundred thousand hits in the time it takes you to read this sentence.
There is software to block hackers if you want to spend a lot of money to set it up and even more for regular maintenance. The more controversial your content, the more it costs you. You end up spending more time, energy and money fighting off hackers than you do creating content for your website.
The Internet SS
Hackers aren’t the only enemy. Your own hosting company can sabotage your site, too. A controversial website on one of their servers attracts hackers out the wazoo and threatens the security of their entire network; thousands, even hundreds of thousands of websites. So they run you off.
So you get a dedicated server and do it all yourself. Sure, if you have expertise in a dozen computer languages, knowledge of hardware and security protocols, and a strong support staff at your hosting company to get you out of trouble.
You soon learn that most of the tech support types at every dedicated server outfit – and there aren’t but 20-30 of them worldwide – are foreigners. “High tech workers” here on permanent visas.
The Death Squads
Ask yourself this: Dedicated servers are so complicated and the security they already have is so expert – who in God’s name would have that extreme level of expertise to be able to hack into their well-protected servers?
You do some research. You find out that close to 90% of all malware originates in the United States. All the hackers are right here, in America!
Then you realize – hey, out of 20-30 dedicated server companies; each with at most 100 tech support each… These are the only people in the world who know enough about computers and are sufficiently current to know how to hack into a well-provisioned dedicated server.
The “SS” Protection Squadron
Be that as it may, the moral to this story is that political correctness isn’t a vague concept that just happens by general consensus, as most people believe.
Political correctness happens because it’s becoming more and more expensive to voice an opinion that’s contrary to the ultra-liberal thought police out there.
Unless you’re a major political party or a well-funded political action committee, or a billionaire with vast financial resources, you have to be a computer guru yourself to run your own server, design your own website, logo, artwork, and run your personal firewall and security – because nobody else will do it. Not if they don’t like the content of your website, they won’t.
Sure, back in the early days of the internet, freedom of speech was alive and well. Not anymore. The “Internet SS” maintain the illusion that the web is wild and free, sure; but only so that everybody assumes it’s so – giving the impression that 99.5% of the world is gung-ho far-left liberals.
When, in fact, only 99.5% of the internet experts are gung-ho far-left liberals; roughly 5% of the population.
So much for freedom of speech.