Reality Check: Internet Purge of Dissenting Voices?
Is there an internet purge of conservative voices or voices of dissension online? Some say yes, and that the purge is being pushed by several social media companies. We’ve heard about censorship before… but is what is happening now an all-out purge? This is a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
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Join alternatives such as D.tube!!!!
This is why Steemit is going to be the future. The market demands to be free.
Congrats on getting top comment!
If you can get D.tube to work reliably for you anyway...
This is still a developing platform
The sky is the limit.
I don't need the sky, just a reliably functional platform for uploading videos. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of decentralization and appreciate what DTube is trying to do and I wish it all the best. I just got tired of uploading videos that ultimately failed half the time with no rhyme or reason that was obvious. It's just too frustrating and time consuming. Trying to watch videos often isn't much better. I'll revisit it when it has matured a little.
Love your name, Azrael is my favorite archangel. My facebook name used to be Anpu Azrael
Plus anything that promotes a decentralized alternative of companies that abuse the power they have to control narratives.
For Google, besides D.Tube:
Yeah, also search engines are heavily modified now.
I remember when google used to be a good search engine. Now, after you page through the ads, you're still lucky if you find what you were looking for unless it is something painfully obvious.
Important message Ben!
There's some irony in your last sentence -
maybe it's time for an update? Steemit and DTube ;)
Since I saw first hand how Cisco Systems was used to buy out tribe.net back in the early days and then quickly moved to destroy it, I saw how the controllers of this planet intended to shut down free discussion online. I have documented (see my DTube and Steemit posts) recently how my comments on Facebook were deleted in realtime, how I lost the ability to post at all and how Facebook never even gave a reason. I have seen similar on Youtube and G+. Even Steemit has sadly shown a similar pattern for me after the technical manager 'Sneak' stated openly he will heavily flag anyone dissenting from the government position on vaccinations. This is an ugly situation, but the good news is that even the tech manager of Steemit cannot silence those who concentrate power in the name of free discussion and transparency. The worst he can do is insert functionality into Steemit which surreptitiously shuts down free speech - however, other sites can replace Steemit.com if that occurs. Many others have commented on this and it is clear that numerous people are well aware that this could snowball into a major problem.
I will be posting a detailed new post on this over the weekend.
Are you going into the rabbit hole of why one of Steemit's key admins is promoting a NWO agenda?
Next Q - what else is he doing and is he alone? - but that is the catch with rabbit holes!
Looking forward to reading your post.
I am not able to comment on the exact motives for his actions, but I will be making a detailed post covering the topic, yes. I have higher priority work to do currently though.
Other work? LOL... Somehow I believe you!
hehe - if only it was that comfortable and sunny! :)
Interesting. Myself I've been virtually fenced off from the rest of the internet for years.
My experience so far on Steemit and DTube has showed me the extent of the suppression. My message is exploding again.
Yes, the same for me. I actually created my own social network and it was delisted by Google Search. Google received a 2.1 billion euro fine for exactly this behavior a few months ago and I am considering legal action myself.
YT has been going downhill in many ways for 10 years now. Upgrades that were actually downgrades, year after year. Functions removed. Virality controlled. G+ required to comment.
Hell, they went as far as to make my ratings stop counting. First, about 4 years ago, my downvotes stopped registering. Then about 2 years ago, my upvotes went too.
The censorship is rampant and blatant. It's like they aren't playing a long game anymore. They know we know they're up to no good, and they know we can't stop them... yet. Steemit is a gamechanger just like internet-at-home was 25 years ago.
No one controls anything, lest you actively give them that power.
To change the world we must begin with ourselves, and the way in which we believe the worlds operates. 🙏
If I believe I have a golden escalator, do I?
I said change the way in which we believe the world operates, that does not equate to regurgitating a popular malconception.
What I believe about the world doesn't matter a bit, unless I'm such a damn fool that my mistaken ideas make me an easy target.
I hear a lot of folks that seem to think that they can think or speak reality into existence. What you said sounded like that.
Still does.
If you meant something different, you should say it.
If you say that you do not matter, then you don't, and neither does your thoughts nor the words that they can form.
But verily do I state, what you believe is PARAMOUNT to how you experience "actuality".
What I believe does radically inform my perceptions of reality.
My beliefs don't matter squat to you, or anyone else, who have their own to suffer.
WTF are you on about?
My expressions, my voice, doesn't have reach because I believe it will. It has reach, or lacks it, for reasons that have nothing to do with my feelings or thoughts, except insofar as I act on those thoughts to effect my voice.
YOU value, or fail to, my words, based on your beliefs. Just like errybody else.
Pretending to have some magic power to effect everybody, or anybody's, valuing of your words is not only deranged, it's without productive value. It's demonstrably a false proposition, and you might as well believe in a lucky rabbit's foot.
Haha, deranged, I'll proudly wear any such ignorantly judgemental definition.
Be well, and may you prosper within the confines of your asylum, in order so that I can do likwise. 🙏
I really can't believe this is happening in America. I left all those platforms a while ago. I figure continuing to use them is enabling them, and I become part of the problem. Steemit/Dtube and Bitchute are all I use anymore.
Same for the most part. It has saddened me to have to "disconnect" from some of my favorite content creators, but the Youtube crackdown is horrifying and I will not give them any more clicks from now on. I cringe a little when I see people on steemit linking to YT instead of Dtube videos.
Well I have to say it irritates me when creators complain about the censorship, then continue to only post over there. And yes, posting over here but linking YT is quite silly. I guess it will take time.
D.tube ain't perfect(yet)(low res, can be slow at time, low userbase, etc...) so I understand the creator who are still between both. Let's not forget this is still beta software.
I believe DTube just finished the upgrade to HD video.
I understand too, it's the people who only post on the platforms who are censoring. If you want to complain, fine, but at least make steps to move somewhere else.
With "America", which is the name of two continental plates, I take it you mean "United" States?
Yankeeland is nothing but an example of how NOT to run a country for the rest of the world.
It seems rather obvious that the nation was created intentionally to breed generation after generation of gun-tooting patriarchal ignoramuses in order to so perpetuate warfare opportunities world-wide, thus ensuring steady monetary flow for the corporations that created the states. "Gotta protect someone's freedom through the end of a barrel, ma'am."
sigh
The future is decentralized. End the censorship. Long live freedom of thought.
Hopefully Steem can replace facebook and youtube. The future is bright. All aboard.
The First Amendment is under attack, thank you for doing a great job Ben!!
Definitely, it's looking more and more dystopian. By creating a boogeyman, the media have allowed ppl to bend their values and allow censorship in order to protect themselves from this "scary" boogeyman
Excellent as usual, and a great act of defiance to watch it on Dtube! All this censorship is just empowering the decentralized media revolution. It won't be silenced!
They are not only spying on us... They are blocking us.... we have to keep fighting the media silence. Every day is even more obvious. i hope steemit doesnt get trapped on this information war..
@benswann This is happening in Venezuela, we have a information manipulation that is so outrageous that even for the venezuelan people is hard to understand. They are so deep into their day by day issues that they are not alowed to think about the main issue. Is not only the goverment, private companies, the "opossition" thats playing as the good guys when they are the ones that are getting richier.
I really would like to express everything that is happening there in a fluid and correct way as you do, find the words to describe what is happening in america (All of american countries). I've been traveling a lot and theres evidence that the news are not the same in every place. Not everything that is going out from each country is as the media says.
From Panama, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, all center america everything is connected, our histories are being repeated, same patherns, same companies involved.
We already had the root of all the evil that is happening right in our face. The internet made this possible and now they are covering everything they can.
they want us dumb... we cannot let them!!!
It's not just the Americas. Europe is having a terrible time too, with forced migration from Syria and other middle eastern countries. The Powers That Be are completely ignoring the Brexit vote. They'll just keep postponing until they insist on a rigged re-vote. 1984 has arrived.
you'r right... but still they are softer in Europe.. And definitly.. 1984 is here.
but you know what? even if 1984 is here some people is not consume by the media. you and i are talking about this, not letting ourselves to be drag to this media manipulation!
I wish I could do more for Venezuela than making people aware of the destabilization-warfare that Zionist Yankees have been waging ever since they deposed Chavéz and attempted the coup d'état in 13'.
Exactly!
but people is so into their own problems that is impossible for most of them to understand the real issue!
Thanks for this Info Ben. I agree Steemit, DTube, Steepshot, and any Decentralized Platform will be the NOW for those who want True FREEDOM.