RE: Dangerous Hypocrisy, Censorship, and, Oddly Enough, Alex Jones
The answer is blockchain and decentralization.
Google and Apple and Facebook and all corporations are prone to bow to the bullshit from ALL sides because the only backbone they have is financial. They have no tether to free speech. If the right or the left or the government make noises, they kowtow immediately.
The banning of Alex Jones, or athletes taking a knee, or crypto ads cos Bitcoin is the devil, then unbanning them, cos maybe it isn't, all you will ever get from corporations is fear of losing customers.
So on the one hand, if enough people care about free speech and make a noise about it, campaigning to not support these corporations, then all these things will return in a heartbeat. All this is fickle stuff.
The real backbone is blockchain, something untethered to national politics. For this reason, if you love crypto, you should actually welcome corporate cowardice, as it will supercharge the speed of blockchain takeup. :)
That is why I choose to post here and not somewhere else. Most of what I write would be fine but I think my weed and psychedelic content would probably get me banned on sites like YouTube and all that.
That is a good way to look at it. There will come a point where people will start to seek this type of place out because it will be their last refuge.
I am more worried about the embracing of censorship in the culture. It ammounts to the population working against its own interest but a lot of people are happily doing it.
"It amounts to the population working against its own interest but a lot of people are happily doing it." Like lemmings jumping off a cliff.
Haha Truth.
"all you will ever get from corporations is fear of losing customers." I wish that were true; unfortunately, what you get is the measures corporations take to ensure a consumer base. Many of those actions and their ramifications result in the fearful shit. "Redbaiting" after WWII comes to mind. Manipulating elections in Italy because the US government and US corporations feared the effects on their influence in a Europe that turned away from capitalism. The overthrow of Mosaddeq in Iran, etc. The list goes on and on and on.