Well. Alex Jones is a nutcase. And fuck him, but it's harrowing that the internet tech giants can simply agree to institute Damnatio Memoriae at will. What's worse is that so many see this as an attack by 'the Left' on 'the Right'. Again, displaying a lack of political intellect in the assumption that Google or Youtube are in anyway somehow 'Left'.

It speaks to the consequences of open information. All ideas are freely consumable without any criticism or debate. Ideas are reduced to information without any mechanism of society engaging with them and growing or moving forward. The internet atomizes, continuing the post-modern crisis of identity, continuing the neoliberal strategy of isolation and containment.

That Vitalik quote is bullshit. Try and make a living off 'social capital' and not real capital. Influence can't pay the power bill.

As Harlen Ellison says, "cross my palms with silver".