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A Conservative Civil Rights Movement to End Internet Segregation
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It is an “elementary right”, as President John F. Kennedy put it, for conservatives to enjoy the same use of services at Facebook, Google, Twitter and Amazon, as anyone else.
And the same access to financial services, such as MasterCard and Visa, which at one point banished the Freedom Center over its politics, the same right to visit a restaurant or a bar, or to teach in a school, regardless of their political affiliation.
This elementary right must be safeguarded by protecting not just sexual identity, but political identity. The Bill of Rights is not built around most of the protected classes listed by many states, but around religious and political freedom.
These were the issues that the revolt against British rule was built on. These are the rights that were meant to be safeguarded above all others. That guardianship has failed.
Conservatives are being silenced on the internet, fired from their jobs and evicted from their homes. Republicans have enjoyed majorities, held the White House, and yet failed to take meaningful action to stop these abuses. Protecting political affiliation is a first step.
It is time for another Civil Rights Act to end political segregation by some of the most powerful corporations in America. Political segregation is the crisis of our time. It is time to meet it, not merely with rhetoric or excuses, but with solutions.
