Posted on 03/06/2022 9:24:04 PM PST by NetAddicted
Latest Statement on TMTG by the 45th President Donald J. Trump Last week, I announced the creation of a major new company that will challenge the dominance of the Big Tech giants and Big Media bosses. Today I want to explain more about what I am doing and why. For me, this endeavor is about much more than politics. This is about saving our country.
America has always been a nation of smart, spirited, and independent people who take pride in thinking for themselves. We admire those who aren’t afraid to speak their minds, or go against the tide. Yet suddenly, we find ourselves being censored and dictated to by a small group of self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters of what everyone else is allowed to think, say, share, and do.
Nowhere is this censorship more dangerous and brazen than on social media, the public square of our times. We have seen renowned medical doctors being banned from platforms for contradicting “health authorities” or questioning the political narrative of the moment. We’ve seen scientists blacklisted for sharing evidence that the pandemic began in a Chinese lab.
We’ve seen vital reporting about Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings—information that voters needed and deserved to hear—ruthlessly suppressed and erased from the internet just weeks before a presidential election. And as everyone knows, we’ve seen a sitting president of the United States effectively silenced by a small oligarchy of tech titans and “mainstream” media corporations.
The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored. We have fallen far down the “slippery slope” of censorship in our country, and the topics that Americans are increasingly forbidden to debate are among the most important issues of our day.
This wildly aggressive censorship and “cancel-culture” is not only un-American—it has direct, real-world consequences. Most obvious are the many catastrophes unfolding under the current administration: the calamitous Afghanistan withdrawal, the disaster at the Southern Border, runaway inflation, and the multi-trillion-dollar socialist spending nightmare, just to name a few. In a country that had free speech and a free flow of information, none of this would ever have happened—and no one understands that better than the people doing the censoring.
Yet the silencing and cancellation also affects our country in more subtle, but equally destructive, ways. How many Americans no longer trust a word they hear from their leaders, media, or public health officials, because the one thing they know for certain is that they are not getting the full story? How many ordinary citizens have sadly come to resent their neighbors, feeling that they now live in two entirely different realities? And how many millions of Americans silently oppose so much of the nonsense being inflicted on us, but see the heavy hand of the cancelers, and conclude that their voice can make no difference, or that the cost of speaking up is just too high?
The new age of censorship is a disaster for our country. Things were far better in the days when we had our debates fiercely and openly, and then we could move forward together, as Americans, with both sides knowing that their voice, and their best arguments, had been heard.
The more I looked into this problem, the more I realized that to restore free speech, a major new platform would have to enter the market, with an ironclad commitment to protecting vigorous debate from all sides.
But since it is both hard and expensive to build a new platform totally independent of Big Tech’s infrastructure, it would have to be an extremely well-funded, multi-year undertaking. In addition, such a platform would need the ability to rapidly attract millions of users, welcoming not only Republicans to join, but Independents and Democrats as well.
It’s a tremendously difficult set of challenges—and I realized I might be the only person in America with the megaphone, the resources, the experience, and the desire to make it all happen.
So with the same “can-do” spirit that has always allowed Americans to persevere, that is exactly what I am doing.
To take on Big Tech censorship, we are creating a “Big Tent” platform: Truth Social. We are inviting people of all political stripes, and all different viewpoints, to come and participate once again in the great American debate.
That’s what our country is supposed to be about. Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation. We will not be treating users like lab rats for social experiments, or labeling alternative views as “disinformation.” We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans “can’t handle the truth.”
It will be as free, vibrant, lively, and diverse as America itself. And Truth Social is only the beginning of our plans. The Trump Media and Technology Group will also be launching an on-demand video streaming service that competes with the increasingly “woke” and politicized ‘entertainment’ programming created by Big Tech and Big Media players. TMTG also sees opportunities to create “cancel-proof” alternatives in other key areas ranging from web services to payment processing.
In the end, a small number of powerful people who all think the same and wish to silence anyone who thinks differently cannot be trusted to control almost every major media, technology, and entertainment company in America. I am determined to break their chokehold over the voices of the American People—not just for myself and my own supporters, but for the United States of America!
All I ever got was a 405 Not Allowed error when I tried to submit my info. I checked the site two days ago, and the box to submit your info isn’t even there anymore. There is a link to “Help,” but it only for people who have already joined. I don’t download apps to my iPhone, because I won’t use it for anything but calls and the rare text message. If they ever allow access via the website, I’ll check it out.
That was my main reason for not submitting my info last year when the site was first announced. I didn't want to be bombarded with emails from them.
Yup,
I plan to join.
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My thoughts and words exactly.
I’m in. It’s working.
I have the same ID I have here.
I was waitlisted at 105k, but my account went live and functional yesterday.
~Easy
I get around that by clicking on “log in” and then x’ing out of it on the next page, which returns you back to what you were looking at and you can scroll on down. I refuse to get a Twatter account.
I am at 107,000 wait list so MAYBE I will be on soon also!!
Because it would be inundated with attacks by BIG Social Media whose sole purpose would to disrupt free exchange. The requirement for an account is just a way of keeping track or at the minimum have a means to identify how much interference there is. It isn’t foolproof because there still would be a lot of fake accounts set up but it’s a start, IMO.
I got on thursday at 106,xxx.
Soon
I’m #592,782.
I guess my wait is far from over, but I’m glad something is happening for the earlybirds!
Trump!
Excellent point. To paraphrase Nanzi Pelousy, "You have to sign up to find out what's in it."
How many Free Republic members lurked for a while before signing up? I would say very close to 100%.
Good luck, you should be in already....
I posted my experience over here in the Truth Social thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4042040/posts?page=146#146
~Easy
Profanity is not censored. F#$% Joe Biden included. LOL
Actually nothing is censored except for porn and certain nudity.
There is a screen placed over the sensitive post, all ya gotta is tap the reveal button.
For example………pictures of war dead that are partially clothed would have a screen.
I’m a Beta Tester. Truth Social is the most Free Social media site I’ve ever seen.
“ I have the same ID I have here.”
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Yes you do young man.
I was going to follow you but not sure how you’d feel about that.
To some here, I’m radioactive as ya know………but I do find you interesting.
I’m #512,614 and still waiting. The first thing that will happen when the site goes live, the hand picked cadre of hack federal/feral judges begin their series of BS temporary restraining orders to be overcome.
President Trump should become a Freeper.
I’ll wait for it to be available via an internet browser.
Yes, 405s were all I got the first week. Then I gave up. I just read an FR article, comparing Truth Social to Twitter. Author talked to Nunes, and he said it is going to be available on web. Main release will be later this month.
Are you going to post what you think of it?
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