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originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: HunkaHunka
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
When will people understand that freedom of speech is only freedom from government censorship. All other kinds of censorship are perfectly legal and fall under the auspices of the freedom of Apple, FB, Spotify, etc.
Hmmm, and when those companies cease to become the massive near-monopolies they are, maybe this will be far mess of an issue.
But until the government decides to break them up, we're more or less stuck with the massive, near-monolithic platforms we have and they are now into playing gatekeeper as we can see.
One might almost think the government has no interest in breaking up such a convenient means of thought control.
And you call the whiny SJWs weak-minded, overreacting teacup people? Are you prevented from buying a domain and building a functional social media platform to your specifications?
YES OR NO.
I'll save you all the trouble -- No, you are not prevented from doing that. Instead of posting like broken records because someone somewhere said "Enough of this s#, one straw too many for this site", maybe you should consider actually doing something and building your own nuthouse SM service that caters to the fringe. You can stipulate whatever the flying eff you want for code of conduct and so forth, and ban accordingly to your heart's content.
Until the day nobody is allowed to go to ProBoards and make their own bat guano forum, or have their own forum or SM site hosted elsewhere, you're spewing nothing short of just plain hot air.
Again, nobody is preventing Jones from making his own website, he already has it. Nobody's preventing him from starting his own SM venue, either. The hard part is simply DOING IT instead of complaining about mainstream kicking you out. Aw, poor ego, got to blame like a SJW, but simply can't be bothered to rectify any user demographic gap by taking any initiative himself (or yourselves)
Need a safe space to feel less attacked in? Then go make it. It's that simple.
originally posted by: celery
a reply to: introvert
And there is no culture war. Culture is changing. People are changing, as is always the case and always will be the case.
The problem is that they are not changing to fit the culture that you have created for yourself. And that you see as a threat.
Make no mistake. It is ALEX JONES who is telling them we are in a culture war.
It is HE who has insisted we are already in a new civil war, falsely. Anyone encouraging this lie is an accomplice to whatever violence is doled out by his followers.
originally posted by: MonkeyFishFrog
a reply to: Sublimecraft
Find me a podcast currently hosted by Apple that promotes child marriage and honour killings.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
According to Jones his site gets millions of views a day so he hasn’t lost out if his words ring true. I’m sure all of his YouTube videos weren’t providing him any ad revenue due to YouTube’s advertiser disaster so it’s not like he was making money off them anyway. I dunno how the other services work as far as being paid for a podcast, if there’s money to be made at all?
Jones still has his show and his phone app where he streams live daily. I think he’s still broadcasted on radio, maybe elsewhere too? Either way, he’ll be fine but I’m sure he’s already making himself out to be the victim while viciously attacking Silocom Valley, Liberals, Democrats, George Soros, college kids, Hillary, crisis actors, pedo’s, Hollywood, and aliens while all praising God for the strength to somehow still carry on.
Alex Jones gets exactly what he deserves.
originally posted by: MonkeyFishFrog
a reply to: Xenogears
The poster is claiming that those kinds of podcasts would go unrestricted on Apple. A quick Google search brings up podcasts denouncing child brides but none advocating them on mainstream hosts.
Well they have podcasts up glorifying Christianity and Isaac, a prophet, married Rebekah (Rebecca) when he was 40 and she was 3. I guess we should go harass Apple about Christian podcasts too and have them removed for fairness sake.
originally posted by: Arnie123
YouTube just banned Alex Jones as well.
Don't care for Alex, but this was a collaborative effort by the liberal tech giant medias, using all the language within its power to limit speech in any of all capacities.
Terrorists Are Still Recruiting on Facebook, Despite Zuckerberg’s Reassurances
Searches quickly turned up evidence of extremist activity in plain sight.
bloomberg 2018 source
He should have played by the rules of the game. If not, you do not get sympathy when you lose.
originally posted by: Xenogears
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: HunkaHunka
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
When will people understand that freedom of speech is only freedom from government censorship. All other kinds of censorship are perfectly legal and fall under the auspices of the freedom of Apple, FB, Spotify, etc.
Hmmm, and when those companies cease to become the massive near-monopolies they are, maybe this will be far mess of an issue.
But until the government decides to break them up, we're more or less stuck with the massive, near-monolithic platforms we have and they are now into playing gatekeeper as we can see.
One might almost think the government has no interest in breaking up such a convenient means of thought control.
And you call the whiny SJWs weak-minded, overreacting teacup people? Are you prevented from buying a domain and building a functional social media platform to your specifications?
YES OR NO.
I'll save you all the trouble -- No, you are not prevented from doing that. Instead of posting like broken records because someone somewhere said "Enough of this s#, one straw too many for this site", maybe you should consider actually doing something and building your own nuthouse SM service that caters to the fringe. You can stipulate whatever the flying eff you want for code of conduct and so forth, and ban accordingly to your heart's content.
Until the day nobody is allowed to go to ProBoards and make their own bat guano forum, or have their own forum or SM site hosted elsewhere, you're spewing nothing short of just plain hot air.
Again, nobody is preventing Jones from making his own website, he already has it. Nobody's preventing him from starting his own SM venue, either. The hard part is simply DOING IT instead of complaining about mainstream kicking you out. Aw, poor ego, got to blame like a SJW, but simply can't be bothered to rectify any user demographic gap by taking any initiative himself (or yourselves)
Need a safe space to feel less attacked in? Then go make it. It's that simple.
The pro free speech alternative to patreon was demonetized.
Master card, PayPal, Stripe, have been shown to oppose free speech, iirc.
Over half a dozen domain registrars, cloudflare, GOOGLE, GODADDY have killed those trying to host their own private forums with controversial offensive speech. ICANN itself is basically blocking by proxy.
Here with alex jones we see vast collusion from conglomerates, the left is targeting search engines, advertising, financing platforms, hosting platforms, the whole enchilada.
You need to create an entire ecosystem, and basically take control over the internet at it roots. This is not happening, short of attaining enough power to basically overthrow all nations. Not happening any time soon.