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After Trump’s 2016 victory, Dems and their media blamed ‘misinformation’ on Facebook. The resulting censorship wars fundamentally altered the balance of power on social media and the state of conservative media. While some conservative news sites were already dealing with headwinds that may have been inevitable, Facebook ceased to be a viable platform for much of conservative media. There was an explosion of vlogs and podcasts helped by influencers of various degrees of credibility.
If Trump wins again, Musk and Twitter/X will be obvious targets, but there are signs that the establishment will be going another route and targeting podcasts and vlogs. The New York Times story teeing up accusations that YouTube is hosting ‘misinformation’ by top conservative shows is already making waves. The Jeff Bezos op-ed at the Washington Post that set off premature conservative celebrations made no actual commitments but did warn of the dangers of misinformation from vlogs and podcasts.
There are signs that the next wave of purges will be less about X (which they can only do so much about anyway) and vlogs and podcasts which, especially when hosted on low-hanging fruit like Google’s YouTube, that are highly vulnerable. Dems see them as the new ‘talk radio’ but much more vulnerable because of the small number of platforms compared to the AM band.
This isn’t so much of a pre-election move as a potential post-election one. Stay ‘tuned’.
The new talk radio needs to fully move to Rumble. There are already people there, like Steven Crowder. Ditch YouTube already.
NO ONE who wants truth and the ability to speak freely ever goes to shootube anymore, and the ads are out of control…
YouTube is where the D-Bags and other gaylords go to show how much they hate America.
I 100% agree… and was going to make the same statement…
The next War of Independence should be a technological one. We need a new internet infrastructure that frees us from the censorship and manipulation of the techno-tyrants. Such a project would require funding of colossal proportion. And that’s just for starters. We also need world class hi-tech people to build and manage it. Coming up with the cash is problematic, but the tech talent is out there, and they’re not all left wing weenies. Trump’s Truth Social and Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a modest start but there needs to be a continuing push in that direction.
Pluto in Aquarius. VERY much about overcoming censorship (See Catholic Church in the 16th century for starters.) Also about individual sovereignty within the larger collective and about decentralization. Should be an interesting couple of decades to be sure.
We do have a SCOTUS…..
BIG BROTHER GO AWAY SKREET SKREET SKREEEE
I would advise people move to rumble. Don’t even mess around with youtube.
Didn’t it just come out via whistleblower that the dems, the UK government, and a prominent UK NGO, were conspiring to “kill” X, and were going after X adverstisers?
No doubt they’ll get around to really going after the other platforms they don’t control.