Stay in the Gulch and read enough posts and you'll see almost every member has posted something about loosing our freedoms.
Dobrien, Freedomforall. OldUglyCarl and 25n56il4 are just four who comment regularly.

Welcome to the Gulch!

Welcome RightMinded71,
What makes you think you are the only one.
Try reading some posts. I suggest you tap the categories and read some posts that were discussed previous to your joining the gulch today.

You aren't alone.

There are forums on the internet that you could still voice your opinion. I don't see how Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft could take down them all. We still have free will to take some kind of action. "Our freedom to choose our actions is of the essence of what it means to be human". Based on that Objectivist statement actions can be taken whether in the real world or online. I don't know if Objectivism philosophy would deal with the protection of one's property and using force to keep what you have including personal property. We still have the US Constitution despite how the states and courts interpret it. my concern we are seeing Antifa is becoming what they say they are not. They have gotten away with violence and the police haven't intervened. I'm waiting for the day they hold a demonstration here in The State of Gun.

Trump said it best a few days ago when he said he isnt concerned who is "offended" by what he says. Exactly.

Radical 'students' (I think many are plants by the Left) are not allowing Conservative speakers visit colleges and universities. Yes, Freedom of Speech is under siege.

Living in any society puts a degree of restraint on liberty (freedom) and is unavoidable. The Constitution was written as it was to safeguard our individual liberty(freedoms) as much as possible by distributing governing powers and establishing checks and balances.
What this country needs is more American history taught in schools, civics taught in high school ( junior year), and a much much wider and diversified choice of political parties. Only then can the public make educated choices to preserve that which was set in stone by the Framers.

How do you know what you've lost if you never knew you had it to begin with. This is the basis on which almost all politicians usurp our freedoms and the younger generation doesn't see what you and I do because they were never taught. In fact, schools today teach self-loathing in our nation and beliefs, we're just another.....

Well, things have been trending that way, but they have been that way for a long time; sometimes in different ways. When I was a child in school (public school, be it understood), my second-grade teacher used to ask us if we had been to church that Sunday, and when I never answered "Yes", she would bug me about it. I mentioned it at home, but, instead of taking me to church to get her off my back, my mother looked angry and said that whether I went to church was "none of the teacher's business." However, although the school was within walking distance of home (I went on foot up the dirt road, as the bus didn't come down there), if she went up there to tell her off about it, I never heard about it. That teacher also threatened me that, in the upper grades, children were graded on whether they went or not, but another adult (probably my mother) told me this was not so, that that only applied in Bible class. (Public school). Also there was compulsory prayer. Well, now we have a different sort of indoctrination. I will admit that it is more pervasive. As to the Internet, I do not use Facebook much (partly because of my difficulty in remembering my passwords). But there is still the possibility of starting private websites, and such. For instance, this one. (My father used to holler about it some in the kitchen; I enjoyed this; she did not; but I never noticed that he ever went up to the school, or to a PTA or school board meeting to do anything about it. Both did not want me to get into arguments with people about it outside the house).

Our freedom of speech is limited online, as in Google faux searches, social media bans on conservative ideas, political correctness.Property rights are now being eroded at every turn, as i
Oregon's banning R1 housing inside city limits, with only farming outside the city and forest lands (which they will not clean). Wash. state will likely follow, and who knows where else. Our daily lives are becoming controlled by need to save the planet from the faux disaster of clamate change, while no one looks to the Sun for the answers.

you are not the only one...

I speak my mind, but I don't engage in insults or foul language. Generally, I find that civil speech, delivered without anger, is accepted by most people. Do some people get upset with my view of the world? Absolutely, but I refuse to react in the same manner. I usually start asking questions when someone reacts unfavorably, telling them I'm open to hear other views, and will consider changing my position if their counter argument is sound.

I seem to be able to post pretty conservative positions on Facebook that others have been punished for. I can only assume that my manner of discussion isn't triggering any of their automated censors.

Is there an effort to stifle any views but far left? Unquestionably, but civil discourse is so foreign to the instigators minds that they don't recognize what a rational person is saying. If your exchanges are kept rational and dispassionate, they're invisible to the radical left.

No. I think we all see this happening.

Something I see infecting the Internet... the When Did You Stop Beating You Wife subject line on topics...