Internet Censorship is Nonpartisan
Dec. 12th, 2018 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
causticusUnless of course we consider the Global-Oligarch establishment to be a party, which they are in a sense. But for the sake of this entry, let's stick to the conventional definition of partisanship, i.e. that of official political parties and ideological factions.
Anyway, in the face is what's now an unrelenting assault on independent political commentators with internet-based platforms, many voices on the dissident right are trying to claim that it's only right-wingers, conservatives and libertarians who are the ones on the receiving end of this censorship, demonetization and de-platforming frenzy being carried out by Big Tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, and now even smaller tech companies like Patreon.
What the independent-right content creators are ignoring is the fact that independent creators on the left are getting it big time as well. I've heard plenty of stories about Progressive Facebook pages being taken down, their videos being shadowbanned or removed altogether, and all other sorts of shady censorship shenanigans the Zuck machine has been pulling. In the video Below, Jimmy Dore (one of the few voices on the left today whom I find tolerable) has on as a guest a young anti-establishment Progressive media activist whom Facebook has majorly censored.
So we know this is not a conspiracy to stuff out conservative voices online, but rather a coordinated effort to harass and scare off ALL independent political commentators off the big platforms. The reason why Big Tech is doing this is painfully obvious and shouldn't have to be explained. But to be brief: Any and all political commentary that doesn't 100% shill for the oligarch-establishment narrative is seen as an existential threat to the establishment. What they're particularly scared about is that independent media appeals to a much younger demographic than the god-awful Corporate Propaganda-spewing MSM (Mainstream Media) can ever hope to garner. MSM networks are the dinosaur media and they're left with a rapidly-aging and dying audience. I believe the average age of CNN viewers hovers somewhere around 70. Ouch. Other corporate networks like Fox and MSNBC aren't faring much better. And of course the dinosaur alphabet networks like CBS, NBC and ABC all have geriatric audiences as far as their news programming is concerned. Tune into the hyper-vacuous "Nightly News" on any one of those networks and wait until commercial time; they're all pharmaceutical ads. This is a telltale sign that the primary viewing demographic is on death's door. And look at the big-name news personalities these networks have been keeping around for years; many of them are geriatric as well. Many of the best-known news magazine "journalists" (think of shows like 60 Minutes) work on-air until the day they die. Take everything I said above and see how all of these facts together fail to present a very appealing face to younger audiences.
In a nutshell: with ubiquitous high-speed internet, we information consumers now have a seemingly-infinite amount of choice. The old limitations of broadcast bands and cable channel slots are now totally irrelevant. The internet is now the equivalent of what the printing press was in 16th century Europe. Young people don't want to watch an incestuous gaggle of grey-haired, Washington-insider (Deep State) media pundits spinning stupid establishment narratives that no truly-intelligent person falls for any longer. The establishment must know this in the back of their hive mind (I'm being a bit hyperbolic here) and as a result, are in censorship-happy panic mode. But of course, overt censorship just ends up revealing their hand even more to those who are actually paying attention. This won't end well for them unless they figure out a way to adapt to the rapidly-shifting cultural paradigm.
In summary, the establishment oligarchy and their mega corporations are coming after every new media voice who pushes a competing narrative to that of their own. And it's not the fringe voices they care so much about; they love keeping a few alt-right idiots around as a convenient boogeyman to scare the sheep. Like wise, the horde of screeching SJWs and anarcho-crazies (ANTIFA goons) are quite convenient for the elites as well, as they provide an inexhaustible supply of red meat to distract and enrage the dissident right. The voices the establishment really finds to be a threat are those commentators closer to the middle; the ones who offer sane and rational anti-establishment content. People like Sargon of Akkad, Tim Pool, Styxhexenhammer666, Computing Forever, ect., are the real threats; they are the commentators best equipped to steer normies away from establishment narratives. They'll be coming for Tim next, but he's super careful and meticulous about everything he puts out, so if the Big Tech giants does nab him for some tiny little technicality, it will look supremely awful for them. Who knows what'll happen though. My best guess is that it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Anyway, in the face is what's now an unrelenting assault on independent political commentators with internet-based platforms, many voices on the dissident right are trying to claim that it's only right-wingers, conservatives and libertarians who are the ones on the receiving end of this censorship, demonetization and de-platforming frenzy being carried out by Big Tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, and now even smaller tech companies like Patreon.
What the independent-right content creators are ignoring is the fact that independent creators on the left are getting it big time as well. I've heard plenty of stories about Progressive Facebook pages being taken down, their videos being shadowbanned or removed altogether, and all other sorts of shady censorship shenanigans the Zuck machine has been pulling. In the video Below, Jimmy Dore (one of the few voices on the left today whom I find tolerable) has on as a guest a young anti-establishment Progressive media activist whom Facebook has majorly censored.
So we know this is not a conspiracy to stuff out conservative voices online, but rather a coordinated effort to harass and scare off ALL independent political commentators off the big platforms. The reason why Big Tech is doing this is painfully obvious and shouldn't have to be explained. But to be brief: Any and all political commentary that doesn't 100% shill for the oligarch-establishment narrative is seen as an existential threat to the establishment. What they're particularly scared about is that independent media appeals to a much younger demographic than the god-awful Corporate Propaganda-spewing MSM (Mainstream Media) can ever hope to garner. MSM networks are the dinosaur media and they're left with a rapidly-aging and dying audience. I believe the average age of CNN viewers hovers somewhere around 70. Ouch. Other corporate networks like Fox and MSNBC aren't faring much better. And of course the dinosaur alphabet networks like CBS, NBC and ABC all have geriatric audiences as far as their news programming is concerned. Tune into the hyper-vacuous "Nightly News" on any one of those networks and wait until commercial time; they're all pharmaceutical ads. This is a telltale sign that the primary viewing demographic is on death's door. And look at the big-name news personalities these networks have been keeping around for years; many of them are geriatric as well. Many of the best-known news magazine "journalists" (think of shows like 60 Minutes) work on-air until the day they die. Take everything I said above and see how all of these facts together fail to present a very appealing face to younger audiences.
In a nutshell: with ubiquitous high-speed internet, we information consumers now have a seemingly-infinite amount of choice. The old limitations of broadcast bands and cable channel slots are now totally irrelevant. The internet is now the equivalent of what the printing press was in 16th century Europe. Young people don't want to watch an incestuous gaggle of grey-haired, Washington-insider (Deep State) media pundits spinning stupid establishment narratives that no truly-intelligent person falls for any longer. The establishment must know this in the back of their hive mind (I'm being a bit hyperbolic here) and as a result, are in censorship-happy panic mode. But of course, overt censorship just ends up revealing their hand even more to those who are actually paying attention. This won't end well for them unless they figure out a way to adapt to the rapidly-shifting cultural paradigm.
In summary, the establishment oligarchy and their mega corporations are coming after every new media voice who pushes a competing narrative to that of their own. And it's not the fringe voices they care so much about; they love keeping a few alt-right idiots around as a convenient boogeyman to scare the sheep. Like wise, the horde of screeching SJWs and anarcho-crazies (ANTIFA goons) are quite convenient for the elites as well, as they provide an inexhaustible supply of red meat to distract and enrage the dissident right. The voices the establishment really finds to be a threat are those commentators closer to the middle; the ones who offer sane and rational anti-establishment content. People like Sargon of Akkad, Tim Pool, Styxhexenhammer666, Computing Forever, ect., are the real threats; they are the commentators best equipped to steer normies away from establishment narratives. They'll be coming for Tim next, but he's super careful and meticulous about everything he puts out, so if the Big Tech giants does nab him for some tiny little technicality, it will look supremely awful for them. Who knows what'll happen though. My best guess is that it's going to get worse before it gets better.
