Whether or not he’s comfortable in the role, Dorsey seems to have realized the necessity of being less ambivalent about what he’ll allow on the service he created. [More]Another Keeper heard from...
It's a real bind for we small fry "content producers" talking about stuff the DSM won't. I tried MeWe as a Facebook alternative and Gab as a Twitter replacement and can't say I've seen any resulting article traffic worth my time to deal with either, and that's the only reason I bother with "social media." I do, however, seem to attract an inordinate amount of sex spammers using voluptuous avatars to mask that they're probably Chechen hackers or Nigerian phishers.
Add Google News moderators removing my stuff from their feed and guys like me are pretty much limited in reach to site visitors, only a handful of whom take it on themselves to share links. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop and find blogs like this are targets of complaints and not only no longer "welcome," but removed without notice. It's happened before.
Ah well, things'll probably run a lot more smoothly without extremist malcontents trying to gum up the works and when the tolerant diversity of approved groupthink rules the day. We'll certainly avoid a lot of unnecessary unpleasantness for all parties concerned:
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You all know about the "boxes" that are the supporting pillars of American freedom, or should. Those boxes are the Ballot Box, The Soap Box, the Jury Box, and the Cartridge Box. The left is doing everything the can to limit the usefulness of those boxes, or to limit our access to them. The recent changes to content policy at Google, Facebook and YouTube are only the latest examples of "social media" titans limiting our access to the Soap Box. The "no guns allowed" policy at eBay is another. Unfortunately, they currently control the tactical, but not the moral, high ground on this one. Until or unless someone comes up with a politically neutral and equally popular alternative, we're going to be stuck preaching to each other.
Perhaps what folks on our side need to do is start our own boycott. Pull your traffic off of their sites and let them know in no uncertain terms why you're doing it. Write your congress critter and demand that Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and the others explain under oath why they're OK with Russian troll farms using their bully pulpits to swing American elections yet are not OK with firearm related traffic from law abiding Americans.
I wan't even aware of the terms "Shadow Banning" and "De-Platforming" until a month ago.
I'm tired of those who still even today do not think we are in a civil war.
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