Posted on 01/19/2022 5:56:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
If you don't like censorship across social media, then go "build your own” platform, the traditional conservative attitude goes. After all, we can't have the government dictate what content is acceptable. It is foolish to get the government involved because the government can also use that power against you later. Unfortunately, the government is already moderating content, and even Biden is speaking about it openly.
The "build your own" attitude downplays the extremism radiating from the left. This is what makes it so disappointing when prominent conservatives, independents, or libertarians like John Stossel (whom I like) still cling to the "build your own" attitude as if they're ignorant of the radical nature of today’s Democrat party. The John Stossel "build your own" attitude assumes the left values free market competition as much as he does. For what reason does the "build your own" personality think the left will sit back and allow conservatives to build anything? The left is insatiable. No amount of censorship will ever be enough.
Large big tech companies colluded to take down Parler. Web hosts have banned conservative websites like Bare Naked Islam and Illegal Alien Crime Report. Payment providers like Paypal have banned countless conservatives from Gavin McInnes to Ian Miles Cheong. Banks have banned Mike Lindell and Dinesh D'Souza. And like locusts seeking their next meal, the left has moved onto their next avenue of censorship – telecommunications providers.
Back in October, CNN's Brian Stelter complained about the conservative network, One America News (OAN), suggesting that cable providers should not carry OAN on because it "is not just a conservative channel. It's a conspiracy channel, and there's a big difference."
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And? Let them scream.
I’ve been registered in DISQUS for years, but rarely comment using it, not because it’s clunky, but mainly because I don’t want my comments spread all over the Internet. I never feel any affinity or friendship with random strangers on sites supported by DISQUS unlike on FR.
I ran the President Trump Channel on DISQUS from 2015 to 2020 until we were deplatformed. 275k followers. There was plenty of affinity and friendship but the platform impeded every aspect of that.
Cool. I didn’t know you ran that. Well done. I hate this “deplatforming” crap. I just watched a Bogart movie “Deadline USA” about the importance of a free and independent press. Great movie. It’s about a newspaper buying out their rival to control all of the press in one city. It was very prescient about this current situation of all of our press being owned by a few oligarchs.
I would rather see such companies burned to the ground than allow them to do this.
The nation is better off with no big communications companies than to have such controlling public speech.
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