Facebook Bans Zero Hedge
Readers of Zerohedge who tried to share content on Facebook were blocked this weekend. According to the social media giant, those posts violated the "community standard".
This came without warning to Zerohedge and its readers. The reason this was triggered remains a mystery. Facebook did not issue any warnings nor have they responded to inquiries.
Zuckerberg and Facebook are under a lot of scrutiny over its censoring of dissenting opinions along with privacy violations. This is all putting the company in the crosshairs of regulators.
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Oh boy, it begins. I've actually been wondering why more of this hasn't been happening. I had sorta concluded that sites as popular as ZeroHedge were too hot to suppress, but it looks like I was wrong. There've long been predictions that corporations were eventually going to replace governments as the ruling bodies projecting power to control society, but that also has been less than complete. Corporations have largely retained the shield of democracy and government to reduce resistance to their hegemony.
I see these two memes both factoring into the present censoring of ZH. There's no doubt that a lot of material from ZH contrasts and contradicts the narrative Fakebook is intent on controlling, and that advertisers profiting from both platforms have been preventing this action heretofore.
At some point, however, the expenses from dealing with content from ZH become greater than some given portion of ad revenues for Fakebook. There's a considerable buffer beyond mere dollars, which can be conceived of as goodwill, but that seems also to have been exceeded.
An interesting dynamic is that corporations like Netflix, CNN, and other media entities aren't actually profitable. As revenues have fallen short of compensating for the suicidal censoring and banning of users of these platforms, the companies haven't backed off. Rather, they've doubled down, and intensified their oppressive attacks on the segment of society that offends them.
I think this is because the majority stakeholders in those corporations also hold equity in other outfits which produce compensatory returns from repressing dissidents, but the losses they're willing to bear are limited. I expect they're doubling down to achieve maximal impact on the target market in a short time before the vehicles being expended to effect that impact are sacrificed.
As larger platforms are now entering the list of casualties, we get a glimpse of the more overt corporate warring to come. Tommy Robinson, Sargon of Akkad, Andrew Anglin, and etc., serve substantial markets. Similarly CNN, Fakebook, and so on, do also, but the markets are being stratified deliberately.
We are going to see more of this happen quickly I think, and cooperative metaplatforms rise to enable the markets for censored outlets to profit from serving those markets. The dramatic weakening of leftist platforms will compel them to circle their wagons as well, and mayhap we'll start seeing the corporate wars more vividly going forward. The shield of government being eschewed, it's relevance will continue to abate.
All the millions of ex-Fakebook people are out there, and their numbers will continue to increase. They still are in the market for content that suits their sensibilities, and the multiple banned sources of that content are possessed of nominal profit potential to support a metaplatform that can attract users legacy networks have rejected. New payment processors are not only highly viable with such scale, but long overdue. Think Hatreon, for example.
Thoughts?
Well put. I think these platforms will continue to collapse under the weight of trying to be everything to leftists and oppressive nation states, while being nothing to the silent majority.
There's a pretty strong divide and rule strategy being employed I think. The huge divide between fascists and libertarians is being made worse, as the conflict between them more strongly diverts attention from the skullduggery of overlords the more confrontational it is.
The cure for rabid disagreement is, and has always been, dialogue. Censorship prevents dialogue, and this increases the power of overlords by making disagreement worse, or at least making it more difficult and unlikely to lessen.
Competing metaplatforms doesn't resolve this issue very well, but it does avoid creating an oppressed minority, which is another tactic used to foment concentration of power by overlords.
I see signs around the world and across issues that indicate we are being positioned to fall into global war. Profiteers couldn't get a better business opportunity than war, so they always want it. The worse the war, the more desperate the customers, and the more profitable it is.
Anything we can do to stave that off, or prevent it completely, is a good thing, IMHO.
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Maybe one day, this will produce a wave of new users into platforms like steemit... following
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Well, obviously not the type of company-user and customer service experience one would like to experience...
What!!!!!! You see. This is because everybody got their pitchforks out and was going along with banning Alex Jones. I never watched the guy I don't know who he is but my 1st instinct is you should not be taking away his freedom of speech. What is this man saying that you don't want us to hear??? Not one person asked themselves that every person grabbed the pitchfork. It's ridiculous sorry about that
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