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Vanity: Ideas on how to crush tech tyranny
Free Republic ^ | August 6, 2018 | AAABEST

Posted on 08/06/2018 3:41:55 PM PDT by AAABEST

Okay, I'm the biggest anarcho-capitalist on this board, but this is what happens when capitalism starts producing zombies. The zombies must be put down.

Legions of users subverting the platform can cost them greatly. Maybe a friendly judges or pols can shove something HUGE up their ass.

They have budgets larger than entire nations, and they've basically declared war on us.



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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
FR could have been what FB is now, and it still can be.

No, it's going to stay just like it is. That conversation has occurred before with FReepers begging, offering tech assistance for free.

41 posted on 08/06/2018 4:30:36 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Mariner
I see no existential danger in any of those things.

Look closer. The danger is from misleading the masses, not from misleading us. We will find information. The masses will not look for it, and will simply accept whatever the big companies tell them.

Right now they are telling them that Queers and Transgenders are normal and we should accommodate them. Later they will be telling people that Christians are evil because they oppose Queers and Transgenders.

My point about Hitler's radio broadcasts is apt. What matters is that the bulk of the people hear/see the propaganda, it doesn't matter if we refuse to look at it or not.

42 posted on 08/06/2018 4:32:24 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: discostu

Occasionally you say something which I regard as sensible.


43 posted on 08/06/2018 4:33:24 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Try this. https://d.tube/ Make sure you don’t have a script blocker blocking you from seeing the site.


44 posted on 08/06/2018 4:34:50 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Till you solve that problem, the rest of your "solutions" are irrelevant.

You apparently have never heard of the terms "investors" and "public stock offering."

You must still think this is 1994 or something.

Says the poster with a pre-BC screenname.

45 posted on 08/06/2018 4:34:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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To: Mariner

Then you’re willfully ignorant.

there were plenty of people in Nazi germany or Soviet Russia that still held their own thoughts and ideas.

Acting on those thoughts meant loss of livelihood and then death.

Web services and social media are very much income producing entities. That these companies colluded and arbitrarily force off conservative voices - in unison - is a direct attack on people’s livelihoods.

Kristallnacht in all but deed.


46 posted on 08/06/2018 4:35:38 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: AAABEST

I know next to nothing about anti-trust laws but it seems whatever laws were used to break up the telephone company would apply to these near monopolies.


47 posted on 08/06/2018 4:36:58 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Boomer
Try this. https://d.tube/ Make sure you don’t have a script blocker blocking you from seeing the site.

It doesn't work. I have Noscript, but I've turned it off for D.tube, it still doesn't work. All I get is a blank screen. I'm running an old system, and I can't update my browser because they no longer support my platform.

48 posted on 08/06/2018 4:39:15 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You apparently have never heard of the terms "investors" and "public stock offering."

I don't think that will work. There are a lot of companies out there offering a similar product, and if they can't break into more market share, I doubt an upstart can.

49 posted on 08/06/2018 4:41:32 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The problem isn’t making a social media network. There’s tons of those:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

The problem is gaining UBIQUITY. These companies have their power because they have come to be synonymous with their section of the market. There are many Facebook like sites. There are many Twitter like services. The problem is they will always be “like” the ubiquitous competitor. If you look on that list Google+ (I know, still Google but stick with me) which is generally considered in the market to have been a failed attempt to clone Facebook has 300 million more users than Facebook and yet nobody calls Facebook a Google+ clone. It’s about owning the mind space. Investors can’t do that for you. Really nobody can do that for you. You either catch the buzz and become a synonym or you don’t.


50 posted on 08/06/2018 4:52:52 PM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: AAABEST

thought it said tech “Trannys”. Im like whaaaaaaaaat? evelynn wood did me no favors....


51 posted on 08/06/2018 5:10:34 PM PDT by Ikeon (Getting emotional about something doesn't make your point of view right. emotions are not logical.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Waiting for the first person to make the argument “they’re a private company”.

Right here.”

Can AT&T tell you that can’t phone your mother and tell her that Trump is great?


52 posted on 08/06/2018 5:16:16 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: donna
"divided into independant companies"

One of those bells was South Western Bell.

They bought out AT&T and took the AT&T name.

53 posted on 08/06/2018 5:19:27 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Mariner

“Quit using their sh!t.”

Great idea. If the Jews in Nazi Germany had only set up an alternative kosher government, WW II could have been avoided.


54 posted on 08/06/2018 5:24:51 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: AAABEST

We could always start enforcing the Sherman Act again. It worked once.


55 posted on 08/06/2018 5:29:45 PM PDT by Eisenhower Republican (Welcome to Colorado. Now go home!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byvu5k9oupU


56 posted on 08/06/2018 5:42:11 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
FR could have been what FB is now, and it still can be.

I agree, however it would require taking advertising, which won't happen. I'd love to see firearm ads on FR.

57 posted on 08/06/2018 5:54:12 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton; AAABEST

I saved that one immediately for that reason myself. Thanks for posting.


58 posted on 08/06/2018 5:56:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I don’t get your video reference. Frank Zappa sucks BTW.


59 posted on 08/06/2018 6:02:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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To: donna

And their history of reconsolidation is pretty interesting. This chart is about 10 years out of date, it’s only gotten more concentrated.

http://gallery.burrowowl.net/index.php?q=/image/11642.jpg


60 posted on 08/06/2018 6:06:08 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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