That's why places like .win give me hope. Once there's a demand, it will be filled. Even if it drives us further into echo chambers for now, I want to believe human innovation and demand will continue to draw us back together, if only because we will know how to find each other even if not on one monopolized central forum.
I always thought of Alex Jones as kind of a loopy extremist, but I also sought him out as a unique and authentic view. I realize I'm going to disagree with him at times but I think he holds his own views rather than being someone's talking head with a hand up his ass, and I think it represents the view of a lot of people. That's worth taking into consideration. Why do they think this way, and why do I disagree when I do, what values do we share?
I also saw his banning as a canary in the coalmine. Extremists of all wings need a place to be heard and challenged. Alex Jones had a persecution complex that was heard, ridiculed, then proven right, to my surprise and I'm sure the surprise of many moderates who now scorn places made "safe" by his removal.
Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro types are completely moderate right wingers speaking for a far larger chunk of the population. Hell, she was a leftist not that damned long ago trying to run a site to harass people who said naughty things online. She was also a young kid with a lot of ideas and not a lot of world experience.
You gotta let people speak their views, be communicated with, to change their minds. Humans want to argue and converse with those idiots on the other side, no matter how much it frustrates us in the immediate moment.
Far left monopolistic Big Tech became a risk to our free speech and democratic processes, far more than any Russian or Chinese troll.
That's why places like .win give me hope. Once there's a demand, it will be filled. Even if it drives us further into echo chambers for now, I want to believe human innovation and demand will continue to draw us back together, if only because we will know how to find each other even if not on one monopolized central forum.
I always thought of Alex Jones as kind of a loopy extremist, but I also sought him out as a unique and authentic view. I realize I'm going to disagree with him at times but I think he holds his own views rather than being someone's talking head with a hand up his ass, and I think it represents the view of a lot of people. That's worth taking into consideration. Why do they think this way, and why do I disagree when I do, what values do we share?
I also saw his banning as a canary in the coalmine. Extremists of all wings need a place to be heard and challenged. Alex Jones had a persecution complex that was heard, ridiculed, then proven right, to my surprise and I'm sure the surprise of many moderates who now scorn places made "safe" by his removal.
Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro types are completely moderate right wingers speaking for a far larger chunk of the population. Hell, she was a leftist not that damned long ago trying to run a site to harass people who said naughty things online. She was also a young kid with a lot of ideas and not a lot of world experience.
You gotta let people speak their views, be communicated with, to change their minds. Humans want to argue and converse with those idiots on the other side, no matter how much it frustrates us in the immediate moment.