Conservatives, Independent Voices Build Own Platforms To Counter Big Tech Censorship, Managed News

Conservatives took critics to heart when they said, "build your own platforms," in the wake of digital censorship claims.

Twitter competitors like Gab, Parler and now GETTR offer a "safe space" for those frustrated by the former's inconsistent rules. The video platform Rumble, active since 2013 but experiencing a massive boost over the past year, is a haven for voices like conservative talker Dan Bongino recently silenced by Google-owned YouTube. And GiveSendGo.com lets clients denied access to GoFundMe crowdfund without compromising their values.

Bongino, with ties to both Rumble and Parler, launched AlignPay last year as a competitor to PayPal, "free from the threat of Cancel Culture," as its mission statement declares. Bongino is now working with another alternative payment platform called paralleleconomy.com, a competitor with Stripe.

The wave of alternate platforms, part of an emerging parallel economy, may receive its biggest boost yet with the advent of former President Donald Trump's Truth Social, set to launch in the first quarter of the year, with Feb. 21, Presidents' Day, targeted in an App Store listing. The new, Twitter-like platform will let the banned leader back on social media, likely joined by his considerable base.

Jason Miller, a former Trump aide and CEO of GETTR, calls 2020 the "the worst year for political censorship in U.S. history," citing citizens and news outlets alike punished by social media for sharing the Hunter Biden laptop story and the theory that COVID-19 stemmed from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.

The former proved accurate, while the latter has gained at least equal footing as the most likely explanation for the origin of the pandemic.

"We needed an alternative solution," Miller says of GETTR, which launched last year.

Claims of digital censorship extend across platforms, from major players like Facebook to smaller, but still influential sites like Reddit…..






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This is awesome! They told us to go out and build our own. Now it’s being done. Alternate platforms for everything, a parallel universe with nothing in common with the existing big tech one. Independent with redundancies to prevent cyber assault from the existing order. Pay pal, stripe, go fund me alternatives as well as news aggregation sites and separate cancel culture free everything. Diversity is a great thing, right?

 

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Censorship of conservative, libertarian, and Christian voices continues

 

The selling point for GETTR is that conservatives need a safe space. Oh what delicious irony.

 

It's undeniable Top Dems and big tech systematically and thoroughly censor any opposing viewpoints.

These authoritarians can't stop the signal.

 

So conservatives need a safe space. Remember why safe spaces are needed. It's because they're in a weak position and need protections. So are conservatives so weak they need special privileges and rights?

 

Its not just a platform that they'll need to escape big tech's control. They'll need hosting, payment processing, domain registration, and app stores, all things also controlled by big tech. And the fight wont end there. Because big tech also operates the DNS resolving mechanisms that route our traffic and, when it comes down to it, they own the very services that deliver the internet itself. This is the mother of all uphill fights.

 

I'm old enough to remember when right wingers were the ones accused of favoring censorship. Now it's the exact opposite. If you stray from the leftist path it can get you banned from FB, Instagram, and the rest.

 

Conservatives aren't the ones who need a safe space. Snowflakes are the ones censoring and banning conservatives.

Snowflakes like this man who dresses as a woman and claims to be a wolf...


Can you even imagine?

 

Trump’s New Free Speech App Prohibits Users From Making Fun of It

With Truth Media, you are free as long as you don't criticize Trump....

 

The selling point for GETTR is that it's a safe place. If conservatives need a safe space then it means they're in an incredibly vulnerable position. So tell me,are conservatives bluffing when they say they're all powerful and capable of taking on the Democrats?

 

I say this as someone who believes that freedom of speech should have necessary limits but there is an astronomical difference between whats happening with big tech and with what the origins of these college campus 'safe spaces' were. The oppression that technology enables is undeniable. Not just for the millions of American voices that big tech suppresses but all over the world where even more people have even less freedom to communicate than we do. This cannot begin to compare with packs of delicate college kids whining that they need places to go do more whining - which obviously no one was saying they couldn't do all along.

 

Its like what the left, from the Whitehouse to big tech, to frothy leftists here are doing to Joe Rogan.

They try to imply he's a racist because he quoted someone else using the n word.

Then clips of Joe Biden quoting the n word over a dozen times and they have no problem with that.

Situational ethics, it's the lefts thing.

 

No. We are simply creating our own parallel universe on line where your kind can’t content control or censor what my kind says or believes. The left always said we should.build our own if we don’t like how we are being treated on social media so those of us with the means to do so did just that

 

It is that. Things are being set up on alternate servers and conservative controlled ones and with multiple redundancies to avoid cyber ware denial of service attacks and server shutdowns. There’s some big money behind the conservative side now and the alternatives to pay pal and to stripe are positive developments that are just the beginning of what is planned.

 

And it's true.

If you can't follow the rules of Facebook and Twitter - unlike billions of people on the Internet - just create your own social networks.

Stop whining and take charge.

 

Yeah, a safe space. Because conservatives are so vulnerable.

 

It would be a great thing, but I doubt its going to take any significant portion of conservations/independents. Though I would love to be proven wrong.

But organizations work together to ensure these things dont ever take off. For instance, you cant really create another youtube (atleast not one that goes anywhere) because youll never get this new youtube to be featured on xbox or playstation or any of the other things that feature it. You wont be able to do that because your alternative will be considered a nazi alternative (or something equally stupid lol).

This makes it so you have less access to the population than youtube, and people will default to youtube.

Same thing goes with just about everything else. I hope I am proven wrong but currently being conservative makes you a 2nd class citizen and the fight to get equal access to things is going to be a long one.

 

Aren't GOP governors censoring CRT views in their states?
Both sides play that game.

 

Boy, conservatives sure do love playing the victim card.

 

Rules directed at limiting the expressions of Christians and conservatives. Why should we accept 2nd class status and being muzzled for saying what we believe? Better to go elsewhere than to accept that.

 

Honest question, why should these platforms allow conspiracy and misinformation in violation of their ToS?

 

Why is such censorship unjustified though? PF has had 'censorship' rules in place for years and it seems silly to say that conservatives wouldn't be allowed to post here. Heck PF recently said that trans people are protected from slurs. Does that mean that conservatives can't talk about trans people anymore? It seems to me that what these platforms are doing is making sure that misinformation doesn't spread and hurts their service. In terms of freedom of speech, Americans don't have freedom of speech. All they have is the government not infringing on free speech with reasonable exceptions. Now I get what you're saying, but it really does appear that this isn't a free speech claim. So much as a "I want to be allowed to say bad things even if they're the reason why we have limits on freedom of speech".

The word of the day is moderating influence. Spotify by censoring Rogan is forcing him to become more moderate, ie not say extreme things. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. And even then, you have to justify why safe spaces for conservatives are needed. So do that. Why can't conservatives control these big tech companies if they're so powerful in their own right?

 

Sadly, the established platforms are infected with Leftist decision makers that squash the Marketplace of Ideas and views not held by the Left far too often. We can't have balanced and open conversations, because Leftists won't tolerate such a thing. They want to divide everyone in every way they can.

 

Says the oppressor holding the whip over us…

 

Do you mean to prove his point or do you just say things because the obvious has escaped your post?