Who Was Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Signaling in His Attack on Big Tech?

Who Was Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signaling in his Attack on Big Tech?

Carefully examine this article, Mexico’s Left-Wing President Mounts International Campaign Taking On Tech Companies After Trump Bans.

Notice the precise language Mexico’s president used to address this issue. Was he perhaps signaling a specific elite audience?

López Obrador condemned the social media companies at the start of the week following their decision to suspend or outright ban the president from using their platforms.

“I don’t like anybody being censored or taking away from the right to post a message on Twitter or Face(book). I don’t agree with that, I don’t accept that,” López Obrador said. “How can you censor someone: ‘Let’s see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you’re saying is harmful.’ Where is the law, where is the regulation, what are the norms? This is an issue of government, this is not an issue for private companies.”

UPDATE;  Several LRC readers have inquired seeking more information regarding why Mexican President Lopez Obrador appropriated his specific language regarding “the Holy Inquisition” in his attack on Big Tech. For centuries, Freemasons were some of the major publishers and distributors of anticlerical, anti-Catholic disinformation and propaganda regarding the Inquisition. The Roman Catholic Church first prohibited Catholics from membership in Masonic organizations and other secret societies in 1738. Since then, at least eleven popes have made pronouncements about the incompatibility of Catholic doctrines and Freemasonry. From 1738 until 1983, Catholics who publicly associated with, or publicly supported, Masonic organizations were censured with automatic excommunication. Since 1983, the prohibition on membership exists in a different form. Although there was some confusion about membership following the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), the Church continues to prohibit membership in Freemasonry because it believes that Masonic principles and rituals are irreconcilable with Catholic doctrines.

To a Freemason such as Lopez Obrador, equating the heinous actions of Big Tech with those of “the Holy Inquisition” is the strongest condemnation possible.

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12:48 pm on January 15, 2021