There are other choke points, all controlled by Google/Amazon/Apple:
https://medium.com/unsafe-space/welcome-to-the-digital-reign-of-terror-b0c7e8d7c3a5
Oh sweet summer child, your hopes are dandelions in soft breeze...
God, that has "bad plan" written all over it.
Yep. Our "whoever's-most-lawyered-up-wins" legal system.
DUDE! They are able to pressure DNS look-up providers!! They can pressure payment services!! They can control the Internet. PERIOD.
https://medium.com/unsafe-space/welcome-to-the-digital-reign-of-terror-b0c7e8d7c3a5
Please read and understand. Laren worked in Silicon Valley and has a good grasp on how the Internet works. If Big Tech wants to characterize YOU and YOUR SPEECH as "dangerous domestic terrorism" or "domestic terrorism-adjacent" or even "possibly, maybe slightly encouraging unacceptable thoughts"...they can block you.
And they will.
I understand that principled argument, but the thing is, they can CRUSH any potential competing platform, donated or not.
https://medium.com/unsafe-space/welcome-to-the-digital-reign-of-terror-b0c7e8d7c3a5
It isn't even hard for them, and they will always have (or pretend to have) the excuse that the people who want some other platform are "spreading disinformation and that's dangerous" or "inciting violence" (ref. the amazingly imaginative Twitter rationale for deplatforming DJT).
It's worse than you think and "principles" aren't going to get anyone very far in this climate.
They cheated when they loosened up voter verification in 2017. HR1, the first bill in the House after Trump was sworn in. Not climate, not economic fairness, not health care...putting in a LEGAL fix to get a permanent Dem government.
And SOMEHOW CNN got wind of it and is there to film!!
Waitwaitwait...when you refer to racists as BI-gots, are casting negative asparagus at our gender indecisive brothers and sisters??? REEEEEEEEE!!!
The Dems have achieved levels of absurdity that are not readily subject to rational analysis.
Seriously. Like there are kids today who ask "What's all this about 9/11?", there will be kids, long about 2040, who will say "Why do people always reference 2020?"
I envy them.
Perfect.
If only it really worked that way.
"He likes oxygen? <puts on bag> REEEE! REEEE!! Reeee! reeeee...." gasp. expire.
"Now with patented new RETARD+PLUS! Buy today and 5% of purchase price goes to Black Lives Shot By Cops Not By Other Black People That's Not What We're Talking About Matter."
Not sure people "wearing the same clothes" give us much of a timestamp for that evening. Or that week, for that matter.
Thanx. Also, cool username.
sigh. Can we repay evil with good...and THEN heap literal coals of fire on his head?
It's like that Gillian Welch song (wildly different context)
"Oh well I wanna do right, but not right now."
You've heard of the lovely South African tradition of 'necklacing' right? I mean, there's lots of old tires laying around...
Defund Black Studies Departments! And STOP GUARANTEEING THOSE STUDENT LOANS! I mean, these cucks don't reproduce, so their only source of reinforcements is indoctrination. We need to stop financing our own downfall.
You're referring to Ruth "Palpatine" Ginsberg?
She's about as "alive" as the Emperor was in that last Disney/Abrams abortion.
Speaking of which, I never thought I could hate a movie that shit on Rian Johnson's head, but here we are.
I've recently seen it called "the mainstream misleadia".
Pretty apropos.
And then, after that, I'd double-check to see if they'd redefined the word "blue".
Or "sky". The fucking weasels.
He reminds me a lot of myself too. Being really, really, really good-looking and...oh wait, that wasn't me, that was Derek Zoolander.
Dirty good-looking MAGA hippy.
He may not be perfect, but how many of those do you think there are?
What bugs me is when people preface their statements with "Well, actually..."
At least throw it down in front of them and invite them to have one of their clerks shit on it.