Totalitarian states are characterized for heavily silencing dissent. This is done by controlling speech. They control speech by constantly monitoring, censoring and penalizing those who speak against the government.
There was a time that that only happened in places like Russia, China or North Korea. But it is now happening in the US. During Biden's administration the government went after the people who criticized the vaccine or the pharmaceutical companies that made them. They said that people were spreading false information and causing harm. Any expression against the government's program was monitored and censored. The government used it's power to force social media corporations to do their speech censoring.
Trump criticized that and promised that free speech was going to be protected. He even pardoned nthe hooligans that stormed the Congress because according to him they were just using freedom of expression. But now things have changed and Trump is sensible to criticism. Now he is going after anyone who criticizes his xenofobic, racist and abusive ICE goons that are kidnapping immigrants and violating American citizens constitutional rights. He's monitoring social media.
The Department of Homeland Security has requested hundreds of subpoenas to force social media companies to reveal the personal information of user who post, alert or criticize ICE. Yes, they are going after people for communicating and using their first amendment right to free speech just like Biden did. Except that it is worse than Biden because Biden only forced social media companies to censor. Trump is asking them to reveal their personal information and location. They want to silence dissent.
This only used to happen in China, Russia, North Korea and... communist places. Know it's happening in "the land of the free".
We were slow walking into a dictatorship but now Trump has shifted into higher gear. His repressive tactics are no longer being hidden. He has gone against the Constitution too many times and he won't stop until a higher force stops him.
https://mashable.com/article/homeland-security-issues-subpeonas-to-dox-social-media-users
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