Richdude wrote on Jun 18
th, 2019 at 5:23am:
Yep that's why the online alt media is being censored by the thought police. Suppress all contrary opinions to the official - worked well for Joseph for almost 40 years!
Can't have the 95% opinion makers contradicted. Got to be 100% - Nazi style.
That's another popular lie going around. They're not being censored...
The platforms they post on, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter etc, are private companies where those who use the platform are the product being sold.
Those who are buying are advertisers wanting to sell their products and services.
Those who use these platforms have not had to spend any money on them and in fact, earn money from them, but they feel entitled to this "free" money.
There are terms of use that anyone using these platforms needs to abide by. Those claiming they're being censored are mainly the ones who tell lies and promote conspiracy or do any of the other unacceptable actions counter to the rules of the platform.
In a free market capitalist world, the one you and those on the right advocate for Rich, advertisers find this content toxic for their brands and will pull their money from the platform if the platforms can't prevent their ads showing on said content.
Demonetising it not censorship.
These bloggers and vloggers aren't owed anything. Their entitlement on display around this subject is eye-opening. A lot of these same posters attack the poor for not trying hard enough or having their hands out, claiming people should lift themselves up by their bootstraps and that government regulation and intrusion in our lives is bad, but once something impacts them, they abandon all of that.
There are calls for government regulation of these platforms and bringing the constitution into this.
Government regulation of how private businesses operate and generate their profits. This is, EXACTLY the type of thing many of these cry babies argue against when attacking the lower classes, but now want for themselves.
The reality is, the "alt media" are better characterised as "alt truth" or "alt reality".
They have an audience because some people would prefer that they didn't vote for a buffoon without a plan, experience or the skill to be President who lies more than any other President on record. Rather than being reminded of all the terrible things he's done, actually done, the lies he'd told, the negative impacts of his policies or even the truth about them, these people look elsewhere.
This is where the "alt media" come in.
In order to keep this audience, they have to keep getting more extream in their narratives which take them further from the truth and closer to conspiracy each and every day.
This is toxic to advertisers, the people who pay their bills.
Do you think a Project Management platform online wants their product and brand linked to a conspiracy that Hillary Clinton started the California wildfires using space lasers to clear a path to build a high-speed rail line to help her traffic children for an even deeper conspiracy?
No, of course they don't.
Rather than being removed from the platform (with a few exceptions in the likes of Infowars etc who exploit mass shootings and the conspiracies around those) they are simply demonetised. They're still given a platform to spew their hate and lies, but they can't profit from it without seeking their own sponsors.
They profit from lies and fake news.
And you now paint them as the victim Rich?
Nah mate, that's not how it works.
These outlets that are claiming censorship, they're exploiting
you.