Posted on 06/13/2019 9:44:09 AM PDT by Heartlander
The thing is, we DID build our own platforms. These Communists built nothing on their own - they took over the institutions we built.
The people who built our tech infrastructure were overwhelmingly libertarian. The Left had no interest in any of it until it became successful.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert Children of Dune
The platform is not important. It’s the texts that are.
Massive texting ability, rather than networking or seeing others’ texts on a single site, are most important.
gab.ai - closed system - can’t see anything unless you register/login
mewe.com - closed system - can’t see anything unless you register/login
parler - closed system - can’t see anything unless you register/login
https://www.ts.today (Jordan Peterson’s ThinkSpot)- closed system - subscription based
Basically conservatives are locking themselves in a room while proclaiming Free Speech.
A "conservative" media platform might be a flop, but one with minimal censorship -- and ZERO political censorship -- would likely be a success.
Should there be a conservative phone company, a conservative internet service provider, a conservative letter and package delivery service, a conservative bank card and payment company too?
I just thought off something- do ya remember when dear leader said “You didn’t build that”?
Well, if that’s the case, facebook and twitter belong to everyone, and WE set the rules! So let’s start firing everyone- and hiring new help to run those sites!
Almost every conservative principle I hold actually stands on its own in the real world. When it comes to politically contentious issues, I've reached the point where I'm more interested in letting people fail than in showing them how to succeed.
I hope Twitter and Facebook are filled with losers like this before long:
The bastards would hound the ISP that hosts the site and claim racism, homophobia, hate speech, etc. So the site must be hosted by normal humans, not wimpy faced social justice warriers.
It ain't rocket science. And it can't be set up as an echo chamber exclusively for like-thinking people. It needs to reach out to everyone and allow misguided people to have the opportunity to receive a conservative or libertarian perspective.
The only reason I was on twitter is that I liked to mock and insult celebrities.
Liberals got me twitter banned for life twice
Nazis got me banned from Gab. I don’t react well to bullying.
Good points. Im ready to sign up but there are no viable alternatives.
If you think any site has to stay on the top of the heap just because it’s currently the king of the hill, I have two words for you;
myspace -> facebook
Here, let’s try two more;
yahoo -> google
How about something more recent and still occurring;
skype -> discord
All you really have to do is be better, easier, more fun, or sometimes you just have to catch a little bit of good luck in how you end up catching the attention of popular internet culture.... usually a combination of all of the above.
There is absolutely NOTHING that says Twitter wont get surpassed. No facebook.
What the author doesn’t get is that you can do both. You can continue fighting them in their arena while also having your own sanctuary to take comfort and strength from.
When you’re in a war it’s good to have your own safe zone.
A platform is either commercial advertising based or it is subscription based. We cannot compete in the open with subscription based platforms. Major companies won’t advertise on conservative platforms until they are big and they won’t be big until they get advertising because corporate America fears the Left and panders to the Left for good reason and would lose liberal customers wholesale if it advertised on conservative platforms. Conservatives buy what they want regardless of the politics of the seller. Liberals make a “statement” every time they buy socks or a car. That shoves sellers into making mucho leftist propaganda and shunning of conservative web activity.
But Twitter and Facebook are also closed systems.
Before FOX and before Limbaugh and before AON and O’Reily and Hannity...... nobody thought of the need for conservative TV and conservative radio and conservative voices all over the airwaves and over the internet.
So, what happened? FOX was built, and THEY CAME. It became the most successful of all the cable news networks around. Some would way that is was/is more successful than the over-the-air TV network news (ABC/CBS/NBC).
So, why not follow the same path towards building the conservative internet (not just competitors for Twitter and Google and Facebook and Instagram, etc). If FOX was able to do it, I’m pretty sure that the conservative internet can also overtake (in due time) the liberal internet. After all, most people are NOT LIBERAL and there are more conservatives and libertarians around than democrats. It’s just a matter of having the courage and the means to get it done.
BTW, CWitter is a no-no for a name.
Alynsky rule #4...
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Sad but true.
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