Yes.
Thanks,,,
Many years ago, I worked with a woman (call her Magda, not her real name) who grew up in wartime Germany. She related the following story (I paraphrase)
We civilians were cleaning up after an Allied bombing raid. As people do, I was having a conversation with another teenage woman. It went along the usual lines, where are you from, what do your parents do.
She told me her parents were in Auschwitz. I asked her where that was. She replied "That's where you go in through the gate and out through the chimney." I had no idea what she was talking about.
Magda then said to me "You have to remember that we had a controlled press. Nothing the government did not want you to know was ever reported.:"
Keeping in mind that the Democrat Party controls the press, could it happen here?
The digital battle is not lost yet. Remember Alta Vista?AOL? Palm Pilot? The current incumbents can and probably will be replaced in the future. How fast that happens depends entirely on how quickly consumers adopt the newcomers. One of the biggest mistakes Trump made was not cross posting to other services. He should be on Gab now, but he seems to be content to just sit there. I guess we will have to wait until Parler comes back, and they will. They will come back harder and stronger and in order to shut them down they will have to resort to tactics that are more akin to bullying the power company into shutting off their juice. Then things will get interesting.
In the mean time, every company with an IT department worth their salt is thinking about what they would do if Amazon or Microsoft decided to shut them off.
Yes - digital first.
But it won’t be long until it becomes a PHYSICAL reality.
Be prepared. It’ll come on quickly once it starts.
The core of the problem.
“Of course, there are many cold steps to traduce between angry boycotts and deplatformings based on political differences and calls for elimination on the same grounds. But it is useful to remember that Twitter, Google, Amazon, and Apple have eclipsed the power of some nation-states. While many companies have a global reach, these conglomerates negotiate with foreign governments on their own terms and in their own interests. They market a form of tyranny that exploits American preoccupation with social conformity and acceptance. Conservatives are the new “other.” We are said to have violated these shared spaces by having expressed beliefs we have been informed are offensive.”
Ping. Limbaugh cites American Greatness now and then. It is a credible website.
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