Breaking through the Big Tech censors

 Just the 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. Both platforms recently attacked "Thin Blue Line," a pro-police comic book project from Mike Baron, without evidence it broke any existing rules of either platform.

Even right-leaning satire, courtesy of The Babylon Bee, has faced chronic punishment from Facebook for its mock news headlines.

The future for alternative platforms like GETTR is brighter than some suggest, Miller says, despite how entrenched existing platforms are in the culture and an early security breach that brought sour news to its 2021 debut.

"The big tech social media platforms are ceding effectively half of the world for potential clients," he says.
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Censorship should lead to a diminishment in the reach of Big Tech.   There are also likely to be further legal assaults on Big Tech censorship because of their collusion with the Biden administration to suppress opposing views.  What is being exposed is how out of touch the West Coast geeks are on the mode of the country.  California is becoming an outlier when it comes to political thoughts.