JimBowie1958
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Once a platform has 80%+ of the media of that type cornered, it is a monopoly and needs to be broken uip like Ma Bell was broken up.
This is the kind of bullshit that happens if you let them continue their monopolistic practices.
Delingpole: Silicon Valley Is Killing Free Speech. Only One Man Can Save Us Now...
Everyone on the right knows better because they have all experienced at first hand what itâs like to live in a culture where you cannot speak your mind without being punished for it.
Sometimes â speaking up for Brexit or Donald Trump at a London dinner party, say â it merely leads to social ostracism; or losing friends who probably never deserved to have you as a friend anyway.
Too often, though, the consequences are far more serious than that: loss of work; denial of promotion; the destruction of your business or your income stream; a full scale social media bullying campaign orchestrated by the SJW hate mob followed by the curtailment of your career; police investigation; even arrest and imprisonment.
But itâs not just individual freedoms which suffer; the very future of Western liberal democracy is at stake here, as governments start copying the tactics of totalitarian states by using censorship to silence voices which dissent from their preferred progressive narrative.
If you want an insight into just how bad the problem has got and why it urgently needs addressing, I strongly recommend you listen to my podcast with Ezra Levant.....
What he told me about the censorship he has experienced from Silicon Valley â aka San Francisco: âthe most left wing city in the U.S.â â didnât surprise me but it did shock me.
He described how YouTube, for no clear reason, demonetized his Rebel Media content.
This capricious decision could have killed his company. In 2017, YouTube advertising was generating $1 million a year for RebelMedia. Then: nada.
Businesses live or die by the market and rightly so: itâs the most efficient and fair way to ensure that scarce resources are allocated towards services and products that people most want.
But Rebel Media wasnât being punished by the market for failure: on the contrary, it was clearly creating product that many people like to see, otherwise it wouldnât have made that million bucks in advertising....
No, it was simply being punished by the left-liberal commissars who police YouTube for having the âwrongâ kind of politics.
Young Turks donât get demonetized for talking politics; Eminem doesnât get demonetized when he makes second-rate rap songs full of sophomoric attacks on President Trump.
You only get demonetized if you contradict Silicon Valleyâs left-liberal narrative.
Given that free speech is one of the bedrocks of liberal democracy, how can any industry be allowed to wield such power that it is able to censor the views held by perhaps half the population?
This is the kind of bullshit that happens if you let them continue their monopolistic practices.
Delingpole: Silicon Valley Is Killing Free Speech. Only One Man Can Save Us Now...
Everyone on the right knows better because they have all experienced at first hand what itâs like to live in a culture where you cannot speak your mind without being punished for it.
Sometimes â speaking up for Brexit or Donald Trump at a London dinner party, say â it merely leads to social ostracism; or losing friends who probably never deserved to have you as a friend anyway.
Too often, though, the consequences are far more serious than that: loss of work; denial of promotion; the destruction of your business or your income stream; a full scale social media bullying campaign orchestrated by the SJW hate mob followed by the curtailment of your career; police investigation; even arrest and imprisonment.
But itâs not just individual freedoms which suffer; the very future of Western liberal democracy is at stake here, as governments start copying the tactics of totalitarian states by using censorship to silence voices which dissent from their preferred progressive narrative.
If you want an insight into just how bad the problem has got and why it urgently needs addressing, I strongly recommend you listen to my podcast with Ezra Levant.....
What he told me about the censorship he has experienced from Silicon Valley â aka San Francisco: âthe most left wing city in the U.S.â â didnât surprise me but it did shock me.
He described how YouTube, for no clear reason, demonetized his Rebel Media content.
This capricious decision could have killed his company. In 2017, YouTube advertising was generating $1 million a year for RebelMedia. Then: nada.
Businesses live or die by the market and rightly so: itâs the most efficient and fair way to ensure that scarce resources are allocated towards services and products that people most want.
But Rebel Media wasnât being punished by the market for failure: on the contrary, it was clearly creating product that many people like to see, otherwise it wouldnât have made that million bucks in advertising....
No, it was simply being punished by the left-liberal commissars who police YouTube for having the âwrongâ kind of politics.
Young Turks donât get demonetized for talking politics; Eminem doesnât get demonetized when he makes second-rate rap songs full of sophomoric attacks on President Trump.
You only get demonetized if you contradict Silicon Valleyâs left-liberal narrative.
Given that free speech is one of the bedrocks of liberal democracy, how can any industry be allowed to wield such power that it is able to censor the views held by perhaps half the population?
