Posted on 05/07/2020 5:26:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
How ironic that the 1984 iconic advertisement that Apple used to introduce the Macintosh computer "played on imagery from George Orwell's 1984 novella [sic] presenting Apple as rebels fighting a technocratic elite. The spot certainly was a lot gloomier than the company’s previous commercials, that used Apple celebrity spokesman Dick Cavett." In truth, "there was nothing cuddly about the new Macintosh ad, which was firmly rooted in the burgeoning dystopian cyberpunk aesthetic."
Ostensibly the advertisement's intention was "to remove people’s fears of technology [.]" In fact, Apple claimed that they "wanted to democratize technology, telling people that the power was now literally in their hands.”
How things have changed as the tech giants have morphed into near-totalitarian giants controlling far too much of our lives. Like serfs, we bend to their will or are punished. Thus, Candace Owens is suspended from Twitter for challenging Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer while Facebook flags the Declaration of Independence as '"hate speech."
In 2016, Aaron Renn reported that both conservative and leftwing groups are pulled down at Twitter. In 2019 "YouTube blocked some British history teachers from its service for uploading archive material related to Adolf Hitler, saying they [were] breaching new guidelines banning the promotion of hate speech. The video-sharing website announced that it would remove material glorifying the Nazis from its platform in an attempt to stop people being radicalised. In the process however, it also deleted videos uploaded to help educate future generations about the risks of fascism."
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I’ll bet the AMISH don’t see this as a problem!
while Facebook flags the Declaration of Independence as ‘”hate speech.”
Heck, Wikipedia calls the Oath Keepers a hate group. The Oath Keepers. You know, guy who promise to remember and keep the oath they took to our law.
Only because Conservatives lack imagination and energy.
Free Republic was built from the ground up by a middle class father and son team.
The fact that wealthy Conservative investors and Conservative executives cannot figure out how to compete against Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Wikipedia, is downright embarrassing.
There’s no contradiction.
Wealthy “conservatives” have no choice but to play ball with the left. They lose their grounding and their principles.
Only individuals have the spirit of freedom and fight.
There’s an unpredictable point where they will spontaneously act in what appears to be a coordinated fashion.
It might be just one guy yelling “Freedom” or it might be millions.
We’ll see.
Summation: Big Brother is a corporation cabal known as Big Tech.
Yes, we have already known that for some time now.
Absolutely.
Death by computerization.
Living by mindless programming that is drowning us in needless complexity and destroying all sense of natural balance.
Yes, we know. Facebook, Google/YouTube, Amazon, Twitter and their minions must die so that freedom has a chance to survive in America.
Contact your congressmen and women and have them introduce bills that turn all communiticaion platforms into utilities.
FB, Google, Insta, Facetime, Reddit, Utube, Twitter, and other national and international platforms as well as all the cellphone providers, and all the cable providers need to be regulated as utilities
Have them sell the service and they can even sell censoring tools for users, but all censorship is user driven.
This needs to be done now and done by pressureing Congress.
Only because those who profess to be conservative patriots keep supporting Big Brother Tech because they can’t do without cat videos.
Cancel your accounts, people, or your complaints mean NOTHING.
We might finally have one. https://clouthub.com
They plan to have the features of facebook, twitter and youtube all rolled into one and to not censor people based on their political views.
https://mewe.com is facebook like
https://parler.com is twitter like
All three are censorship free.
The real problem is getting people to make the switch. That and having a system ready to go that has all the features that people want and/or are used to. Many people on facebook, my wife included, are there for the games. Now they have Marketplace for local classified ads. Facebook Groups. Facebook Pages, complete with the ability to monetize.
Twitter is easy to replace because there’s not much for features. Tweet/post, follow, like, retweet/post, comment.
Youtube has a huge advantage in monetization because it’s by google, the conglomerate of internet advertising.
Facebook and google/youtube have big head start because they’ve been at it for so long. You can get share buttons and add the ability for people to register and log into your site with their facebook/twitter/google account, on pretty much any kind of site/software. Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and dozens of others. These newer social networks don’t have all that yet. I did manage to find one wordpress plugin with a MeWe share button. Some things just take time.
As for a wikipedia replacement, there are quite a few. The problem is, conservatives are too busy with real life to write content for an online encyclopedia.
I will say, out of all the alternatives I’ve tried, MeWe, Parler, Gab, Clouthub. The latter seems to have their shit together as far as quality of the software. The others all seem to be glitchy or sluggish at times. Clouthub isn’t real busy yet so that could change.
I think the all-in-one solution is going to be the ticket. A lot of people have both a facebook and twitter account, plus maybe some other account like LinkedIn.
Conservatives also tend to not like change which doesn’t help when these new social networks try to get off the ground. People in general are lazy of course. What’s really needed is for some big names to make the move, especially PDJT. If he left twitter, millions would follow him. Of course then he’d be blamed for putting twitter out of business. Could any of these other systems handle millions signing up all at once? Unknown.
Facebook has banned two of my accounts because I keep exposing leftists lies. And when I appeal...they say due to COVID there are no appeals...they may do better in the future though.
A friend of mine had a post removed for saying “If you can be safe at home depot and stand 6 feet apart. Then in November you can be safe and stand 6 feet apart and vote.” They said it’s misinformation about.
It may be in their hands,
but it is stored in big tech's cloud,
which only big tech controls and has access with which to control others and make money off of it.
Their model is China, and its social credit system of monitoring.
Re: Wealthy “conservatives” have no choice but to play ball with the left.
I disagree.
I am thinking about start up investors and entrepreneurial management.
Every great tech company begins with a couple of inspired and impassioned individuals.
If we can’t find a couple dozen of them who have the courage to publicly stand up against the Political Left, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
Amish or Amash?
I’ve tried websites like Mewe and Spreely, but they lack any kind of controls that let the user decide who posts on their account. I don’t want to see everything people post, just posts from people I know and allow. Until any of these websites give the user more control over what they see, they won’t be very popular.
Ping to #5.
Don’t you pretty much see everything anyone posts here?
I’m noticing on this clouthub, the web app lacks many features and tools that the phone app has. That’s going to kill it for me. We don’t get a cell signal here so I don’t really use the cell phone much. We mostly got it for when one or both of us are out and about. I also can’t stand trying to type on a phone. I suppose I could use voice to text feature. Don’t even know if the phone has it. We’re laptop people.
Competition for those things is about name recognition more than anything else. Those names are known. That’s where people go. There’s tons of alternatives in all those market spaces. Many conservatively oriented. But nobody knows their names. So nobody goes there. So they don’t matter.
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