Posted on 09/06/2018 6:15:50 PM PDT by davikkm
Don’t forget Saudi support as well.
There are only alternatives if you want to set up a conservative ghetto, where we are only talking among ourselves. That is what the Tech Masters WANT. Their objective is not to silence us as much as to prevent our thoughts from being received by regular people. They want the eyes of all the moms and teens, and they want the only narrative they see, to be the Left's narrative.
Facebook may have peaked, but that doesn't mean that young people are any less glued to their phones. It doesn't matter if people use less of FB, and switch to SnapChat (or whatever is currently trendy) if the same group of California techies (whose strings are pulled by the same set of venture capitalists) still control who does and who doesn't get to speak to a wide audience.
I don't just post to FR. I communicate elsewhere, and lock horns with leftists there daily. To have an effect on society, you have to get out of the FR echo chamber.
What I use FR for, is to get interesting data that I can use to cross-pollinate elsewhere.
No. It doesn't work that way.
If every conservative left, liberals would be free to get their message out to hundreds of millions of people without their messages being challenged by conservative viewpoints. This is exactly why conservatives are getting kicked off!
The inability for FReepers to comprehend this, as is evidence by the complacency on the many Infowars threads, does not bode well.
FReepers used to be the tip of the spear on these matters. These days, not so much.
There are solutions that don't require the heavy hand of government regulation.
These companies want to have their cake and eat it. They want the protection against liabilities that platforms enjoy under the DMCA, the same protections afforded to cellular carriers, and at the same time they want the right to police content that publishers enjoy (and sites like Free Republic).
They can't be both a platform and a publisher and a wall of class-action lawsuits levied by competent firms might force them to choose one or the other.
Wonder if there was an alternative to TWITTER, and Donald J. Trump pulled his account and asked all his friends to do the same. HOW LONG WOULD TWITTER be able to keep on gaming the system.
“There are solutions that don’t require the heavy hand of government regulation.”
Wise words.
Never, never, ever involve government, police or lawyers.
If they lost half their audience, what would happen? Libs would be singing to the choir - who cares? Their advertising revenue would shrink, and their stock would crash. Alternative media would grow. Remember My Space? It could be that quick.
At the rate he’s going, he’s going to have to send out typewritten newsletters by mail by Thanksgiving
Paul Watson and Mark Dice will be next.
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