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posted ago by LeftistsAreInsane ago by LeftistsAreInsane +46 / -0

You're attacking the purpose and existence of this very website, all while using it! This website was created to get away from Reddit and be free from censorship. How can you be against Twatter and Youtube competitors based on the idea that conservatives should "stay and fight" and redpill liberals, when you fled to this site already? Besides, what are you going to do when you end up like Carpe Donktum and get banned? How will you stay and fight at that point?

Nothing is stopping you using a new and free platform while also seeing what you can still do on the old websites. They're not necessarily mutually exclusive.

And I'm not against pointing out the flaws in the new websites that need to be addressed such as postings not being publicly visible and requiring a phone number to sign up. Great! Let's get those flaws fixed.

But how can anyone honestly be against the very nature of the free market when you're obviously availing yourselves of its benefits on this very website?

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ShrikeDeCil 1 point ago +1 / -0

The best "enforcement" we can hope for is something like insisting they're all "Virtual Company Towns."

A Company Town ... yeah they "provide food" and "services" and ... But they tend to do it in ways that are fundamentally not respecting of the Bill of Rights.

"Cruel and Unusual" would mean they need to make punishments proportional to "crimes". Think "$1" instead of "Permanent banning for some word that was fine yesterday".

"Jury of Peers" (and the associated rabbit holes) would mean "No, you can't just have the Karenwaffen do the judging arbitrarily!"

"Face your accuser"/"Habbeus Corpus" - Carpe Donktum had some outrageous number of videos (300+?) and was "Permabanned" for "Copyright infringement" - no indication of even which video, who made the claim, plausible remedies or any defenses...

Sure. Everyone can "Just leave" - and that's an option. People did that under Company Towns too - voting with your feet.

But sticking around until kicked out is piling up ammunition for the (already alluded to) investigations. And a solid court case, with honest attempts to figure this out would end up applying to multiple places. Corporate America has basically been sliding in the direction of the "Dutch East Indies Co" ... simply, practically unavoidably large.

They aren't focused on the money so much as they are the control of the eyeballs

If everyone that had ever voted Republican left tomorrow they'd take a hit. But you'd never see a Democrat walk off the plantation again.


Yes, "Here" is a retreat from Reddit. And thus ironic. But we (or you all, I never was a Redditer) were mostly pushed out in an era where there wasn't any legitimate hope of fairness.

Free markets aren't "Free" when you have people with their fingers on the scale, clipped coins, the Karenwaffen controlling what passes for the courts, and no legitimate appeal.