http://archive.is/10OqI

Friends don't let friends click nytimes.com links

around 5 years ago i thought mark dice was an arrogant idiot, but i think of him as an intellectual now by todays standards

i grew up on the perception that the NYT and the Guardian were bastions of free and independent press

how have perceptions changed....

well my perception of that changed back when i became a conspiracy theorist

>By Cheryl Strayed
oh dear

https://cherylstrayedisaliar.blogspot.com/

Apparently alex got suspended

I guess Jack felt the need to maintain the appearance of propriety and not be part of the 12 hour completely coincidental ban wave.

I'm wondering if part of the reason Lauren Southern says she's no longer uploading YT videos is to try to avoid being unpersoned.

in that case it's having a successful chilling effect

this is the moment when people should be loud, imo, but on the other hand i guess it's easy advocating for martyrdom when you're not the martyr

^ exactly.

Lauren is probably skirting the edges of being unable to make a living.

@NativeInterface being loud is good i agree but you paint a target on your back

yeah

Banned from patreon, demonetized/sandboxed on YT, speeches cancelled or levied with massive security costs, can't get hired for a regular media job ever again.

@Atkins or any job almost ever

I guess the worst case scenario would be doing the trad thing and being a stay-at-home mom for some regular schmoe.

but if we can get social media companies to overdo it, employers and society will likely stop taking them seriously

then she becomes a ward of the state and helps destroy the useless social programs as lefties desperately try to get her to starve to death.

Has Gavin McInnes been removed from any other platforms yet? I know he's on CRTV which is still untouched, probably because so many other well known run-of-the-mill conservatives are part of it.

twitter didn't give a reason about why gavin was banned did they.

Half the people on CRTV are Fox contributors, so they're well known to normies and taking them down would cause a massive shitstorm.

are entrepreneurs not conservative? there is a growing market here.

Nope, blank form apparently.

i dunno, i'm starting to get the impression that market actors have no fundamental understanding of the role they play in the market, and just believe whatever

@Grenade123 there's a massive barrier to entry in creating a successful social media platform. It ain't free and even if you do get the investment to build something you're still at the mercy of payment processors, hosts, registrars, ad companies, etc

there is more here than social media

real life's better than social media.

tbh, social media its kinda useless. people use it to bitch and complain then do nothing. the people who will do something, are not generally stopped by lack of social media

its why the left loves it so much

say something that sounds nice, click share, then sit back and enjoy my good feels while nothing actually gets done

yeah it's just like this chat channel

kinda

youtube is the only one i think which actually has some value

in the same way radio does

but people have been making money from TV and radio long before the internet age, and companies like Rooster Teeth took off before youtube was even a thing and they are going strong while still offering free viewing of a lot of there stuff

Well, democracies are kinda driven by public opinion, and social media is a tool for influencing public opinion. So yeah there's an aspect of like, share, and do nothing, but then there's also an aspect of making people aware of things they wouldn't otherwise be aware of.

yes, its a way of influencing public opinion and its own by private companies with agendas