Thank God these platforms are finding a way to break through the censorship brigade..
It’s really alarming to see what’s happening on Twitter and FB..TOTAL lockdown on free speech that doesn’t cow tow to the “100% far left, all the time” viewpoint of the day.
If you’re: a) white; b) patriotic; c) Christian; d) support Trump and/or don’t just parrot the “approved” mantra of the far left, you’re at high risk of being banished - possibly forever - from Twitter. FB less so, but check THIS out..
Saw an article the other day that FB is going to introduce AI algorithms that will automatically determine if content you post is “political” in any way. If so, they won’t necessarily flag or label it - they just won’t display it in other people’s feeds. Basically, you’ll apparently get NO notice whatsoever that whatever you posted has gone into the digital never, never land..
This total lockdown on free speech (and presumably, anything critical of the Biden/Harris “regime”) should terrify the blue blazes out of everyone. Communist China literally has more actual “free speech” than we seem to have nowadays.
So, thank God that Parler is coming back - and that Gab and Telegram appear to be thriving. We need all the alternatives to Twitter and FB we can get.
I absolutely agree that it’s essential social media alternatives find some space to grow organically. It’s disturbing that both Parler and Gab (I believe) have to resort to homing themselves on Russian servers because they’re persona non grata by US hosters.
Yikes.
Political censorship aside, the enormous privacy concerns regarding Facebook should be more than enough for average people to abandon that platform. I have my issues with Apple and particularly Tim Cook’s decision on Parler, but he’s absolutely correct when he describe the existential threat to privacy that Facebook is.