[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.

[Zhang Fei]

[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.]

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These are natural monopolies, and the natural free marketeer’s reaction is to impose regulations. The simplest would be to require them to remove all bans on anything other than illegal material, on pain of large fines - perhaps $1m per violation.

[snarkpup]

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.

[xzins]

Amen.

I’ve tried gab, but it isn’t very user friendly