There are very few places on the internet where you can:
speak freely
be surrounded by reasonable people who have the power to effect change
Notice that 2nd point. There are still places where you can speak freely but they are filled with edgelords who are in many ways unreasonable.
Its very hard to find an online outlet where a reasonable, constitutional protest could be organized... without some kind of tyrannical action coming down on you.
The most important part. TPTB will let you have whatever little conservative corner of the net that you want, so long as you don't affect election outcomes or other policy. The second your online behavior starts moving the real world in a rightward direction, you'll get banned. We now see that the once-egalitarian chorus of internet pioneers never really wanted free and effective speech. Rather, they wanted free and ineffective speech for our side, while their side was free to be as effective as they wanted.
There are very few places on the internet where you can:
Notice that 2nd point. There are still places where you can speak freely but they are filled with edgelords who are in many ways unreasonable.
Its very hard to find an online outlet where a reasonable, constitutional protest could be organized... without some kind of tyrannical action coming down on you.
The most important part. TPTB will let you have whatever little conservative corner of the net that you want, so long as you don't affect election outcomes or other policy. The second your online behavior starts moving the real world in a rightward direction, you'll get banned. We now see that the once-egalitarian chorus of internet pioneers never really wanted free and effective speech. Rather, they wanted free and ineffective speech for our side, while their side was free to be as effective as they wanted.