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To: Behind the Blue Wall
It’s getting more and more ridiculous that the supposedly free-market oriented right has not stood up an alternative to Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Instagram/etc.

The free-market oriented right is creating such alternatives. So many of the people I follow on Twitter and YouTube have set up presences on alt-tech platforms (to use during the times they get suspended or banned) that I have to maintain a spreadsheet to keep track of them.

The first problem that alt-tech faces is that when someone gets banned from Twitter or YouTube and has to move to Gab or BitChute, their potential audience drops by a factor of several thousand; and no one will hear them but their die-hard fans. The second problem is that the big-tech companies are natural monopolies and unless they screw up badly enough to kill themselves, they won't be unseated. That, however, may be happening now.

12 posted on 07/31/2018 11:26:32 AM PDT by snarkpup ("The rules don't matter when you're infected with political rabies." - The People's Cube)
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To: snarkpup

That’s great and I have an account there, but this problem probably needs a big high profile solution starting with a massive amount of capital.


18 posted on 07/31/2018 12:19:25 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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