Censorships: The Revolution is Slow

in #blog5 years ago

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It has become quite clear that Facebook, Twitter, Google and most major mainstream platforms have completely sided with a single political narrative to the detriment of others. The mass censorships, open attacks by top mainstream platform shareholders are just some examples of the current battle we face for the future of free speech.

One would have thought that with the constant attacks on, I dare say – Conservative politicians and values, there would be a more urgent rebuttal of the status quo and mass movements into alternative voices. I expected the blockchain, and steemit in particular to benefit greatly from such a rebuke, but that has not been the case.

So What’s Stopping them?
I don’t really have the answer so I can at best try to rationalize why it makes more sense to remain on a platform where ones voice is silenced or an alternative that is free for all. It is quite obvious that protests have little or no effect on the operations of the mainstream so expecting a miraculous change of heart will likely not happen.

It could be that the alternative platforms are yet to have sufficient money to Launch a challenge. If you look at most mainstream news stations for instance, a lot are left leaning and only Fox seems tend to the right among the bigwigs. It works the same for mass adoption of a decentralized news system – there is most likely an absence of a well funded platform that can match in size and credibility.

The power is in the audience, and as long as a listening ear is given to siding with these platforms they will just keep doing whatever they like.

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It's funny steemit has google built in as a search tool, way to fight the establishment, ha ha... Maybe it's time some dev built their own search function, it's not that hard I think i built a simple search function in ASP like a 100 years ago...

/FF

You're in all the places I go! Glad to see you around. Lol 😄

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Dont need stoping them. Its enough, if you dont choose them.

Theres a lot of option to share content, information and data. Just choose the censorship-resistant. At time, they're, the today giants going to atrophy, just matter of time.

So yes, the revolution is slow. As the moving of continents. But still happen.

I can't wait till the day

If you make the right choice, then this day is that day. They cant force us to nothing. We make our own decisions.

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howdy empress! I'm surprised that the major players are still doing so well, I thought with so much censorship it would drive people away but I guess not, maybe not enough people know about the censorship.

All I know is, they need to come to steemit but now that's hard for new accounts too!

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