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How I’m Responding to Facebook and Twitter Censorship
The previously clandestine and now quite overt censoring of conservative voices on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Platforms has now reached dangerous levels. This is not just about Trump. Social media is critical to modern political discourse. The censorship must be resisted. That means targeting profitability, and that means boycotts. But I won’t cut off my nose to spite my face.
I will continue to use these platforms in the short term while taking the following measures to abandon them as soon as it is practical.
1. To the greatest extent possible, I will try to post nearly exclusively on Parler and MeWe
2. I will post on Twitter and Facebook only links to those Parler and MeWe posts
3. You are not forced to join those sites to view my posts, but I hope once you are on the sites reading my stuff, you will take the opportunity to join those communities. Please join/follow/friend me when you get there.
4. Eventually, once those alternative communities have reached the critical mass needed to function as effectively as Twitter and Facebook once did, I will abandon those legacy services entirely. Ironically, with their recent actions, those legacy companies may have accelerated the realization of that network effect functionality.
In the meantime, here is what else I am doing:
To the extent possible, I am viewing my favorite video podcasts on Rumble instead of YouTube. They don’t censor political speech and their terms are financially much more appealing for content creators. Also, they have plans to incorporate live streaming in the new year.
I have abandoned Google as my search engine on all platforms. I use Duck Duck Go
I am researching my options for switching email providers to jettison G-Mail. Looking at Protonmail which offers end to end encryption. They don’t mine your emails for data about you to sell. Even if privacy isn’t your primary concern, you’ll be incrementally robbing Google of a source of revenue.
I’m @Exaeroman at Parler https://parler.com/profile/Exaeroman/posts
I’m Jesse McVay at MeWe https://mewe.com/i/jessemcvay
https://Rumble.com https://rumble.com
https://DuckDuckGo.com https://duckduckgo.com
https://Protonmail.com https://protonmail.com
Feel free to comment on this post if you have other suggestions for alternative social media platforms.
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Hopefully that’s because he went into hiding, not because they found him.
Amazon owns ABE
He’s not in hiding. He’s been imprisoned a few times on really lame charges and has been poisoned twice, the 2nd time with intent to kill. But he isn’t hiding.
Sounds like maybe he should be. At least physically, while continuing to have a protected online presence.
If he hides he will be labeled a coward, and that will destroy his effectiveness.
<Me also, please! I already have a small list of members for whom I have outside info like email address and phone number-that’s the beauty of in-person meetups.
Thanks for following RushBabe49.com! Everyone else also welcome!
I need an invitation, too. Somebody please? PM for the info you’ll probably need.
Amazon Prime canceled right now. And a few keystrokes later, I found what I wanted to buy – without Amazon. Imagine that!
It’s been known to happen. :-)
MeWe.com has a group named Castle Ricochet, where a few of us are lurking.
Does MeWe allow you to block or kick out certain people?
Yes.
Sounds like a big improvement already!
I’ve been trying to use MeWe. Posting photos is buggy, to say the least. It’s not ready for prime time, but I’m going to keep with it and hope that critical mass builds up there.
I haven’t spent a lot of time there yet but for some time I’ve belonged to two groups where the main activity seems to be posting of photos. I haven’t posted much myself, though.
Twitter is a public traded company who just made a decision that cost it 5 billion dollars in Market cap.
Which means it and Jack are about to be facing a class action lawsuit by the Shareholders, who dont give a crap about principles but want there money.
This is why I told my broker to divest me of all my Big Tech stocks months ago.
You mean Beardie McWeirdbeard?
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person!
Does the big tech market slide continue, or are there signs of a totally-unjustified “recovery?”