The leftist "woke" purge of politically incorrect speech has begun

Yesterday, in "Al Strachan on social media and being deplatformed", Walt advised you to try Parler, an alternative app where those of us of a politically incorrect persuasion could speak freely and express ourselves openly, without fear of being 'deplatformed'. 

In an update at the end of the post, I reported that you could no longer get the app on Amazon, Apple or Google stores, but should be able to download it directly. Not any more! Early this morning TheRightScoop reported that Parler has gone dark, turned off by Amazon. 

The Big Tech Purge (they write) is now at the next level. They’ve gone from concept to execution (a fitting word) on their test case of shutting down speech and banning what they don’t like from the internet. In America, if the left doesn’t like you, they can just turn you off.

Brendan O'Neill, writing on Spiked-Online.com, says: With the flick of a switch, billionaire capitalists voted for by precisely nobody have just silenced a man who is still the democratically elected president of the United States. With the push of a button in their vast temples to technology, the new capitalist oligarchs of Silicon Valley have prevented a man who won the second-largest vote in the history of the American republic just two months ago — 74 million votes — from engaging with his supporters (and critics) in the new public square of the internet age. 

Walt reminds the censorious lefties of an old adage: Just because you've silenced a man doesn't mean you've converted him!

North Korean leader's uncle thrown to the lions -- LITERALLY!

Dear readers, Walt assumes you follow the news assiduously -- local, national and international -- and heard or read yesterday's story about the downfall of Chang Song-thaek. Mr. Chang was -- note the past tense -- the uncle of North Korea's Dear Leader 3.0, Kim Jong-un.

Being an uncle of the Numero Uno (I don't know how to write it in Hangul script) doesn't necessarily make you loyal. Mr. Chang was accused of treachery and disloyalty and trying to organize a coup. If you were watching the TV news, you saw a video clip of two uniformed army types lifting Mr. Chang out of his seat at a special party meeting and frog-marching him out of frame to... well... to his death!

Today it is revealed that Mr. Chang was given a summary trial of sorts and promptly "executed". At least, that's what the English-language media are telling us. At first he was said to have been shot, in traditional Communist fashion. (The Chinese Communists make the family of the deceased pay for the bullet too.) But Agent 78, checking the Chinese media, tells a different story.

According to Agent 78, Mr. Chang was not shot, but eaten! A story published in a Hong Kong newspaper claims he was thrown into a cage of what 78 translates as "cheetahs", who made a meal of him...literally! It seems odd to Walt that there would be cheetahs in North Korea. [Try the Canadian Senate. Ed.] Perhaps it was lions. Or wolves. Or pigs. But it does seem like a fitting end for a corrupt politician.