Conservative Media Must Die (or Big Tech Loses Money)

 

It's all about power and money.

So why is Big Tech targeting new political censorship free social media that competes with the Big Tech approved Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram coalition??? Dennis Prager pointed out in a recent interview that leftists are children. Freedom frightens them. They want to be taken care of instead.

So Big Tech, prefers the more easily manipulated, more vulnerable to advertising, more lucrative demographic made up of the leftist snowflake generation. It therefore feels it must squash social media for adults. "Why?" you ask.

You see the trouble is that the snowflakes are quicker to change brands or political direction in response to clever advertising, but they don't have any money. If older, more conservative consumers move to more freedom friendly, free market social media they would lose the eyes that actually have money to buy things. If those eyes are moved onto conservative friendly social media in large numbers, then the Big Tech supported social media giants lose a vital income stream.They are already seeing massive loss of revenue as conservatives bail on Twitter and Facebook and the rest in favor of new more friendly social media like Parler, MeWe, Minds, and others. Parler in particular with its easy to use interface was pulling millions from Twitter and Facebook and had to be shot down in a hurry, costing Twitter billions in falling stock value.

Leftist social media like Twitter and Facebook need conservatives to give them money because most young leftists don't have any. More than 75% of the liquid cash assets in the United States are in the hands of older decision-makers - a group that becomes notoriously more conservative with every year they age. Young leftist snowflakes, a group less well off financially, therefore less able to contribute to the ad-based economy, are motivated by promises of free stuff from politicians. In exchange they obligingly vote for "progressives" and they obligingly get angry at conservatives who seem to stand in the way of their getting free stuff. Thus the temper tantrum rioting and looting we've seen this past year.

At the heart of it, Big Tech is trying to force conservatives to depend on liberal media. They must shut down any particularly successful conservative and so-called unmoderated (i.e. leftist) social media like Parler, Minds.com, Blabberbuzz and others. If they don't crush the competition, it costs them dearly as Twitter and Facebook have seen with the massive migration of conservatives to these other media.

Sadly, new conservative media must rely on Big Tech controlled resources to operate on the Internet as it currently exists. The servers they exist on and the technology they use is infested with Google, Microsoft and other Big Tech code that will make their platforms fail if access is blocked as Parler found out to its chagrin.

There is a possible solution to the problem on the horizon. Tim Berners-Lee 30 years ago, he wrote the codes that made the world wide web possible. Berners-Lee believes that "Too much power and too much personal data reside with the tech giants like Google and Facebook. Big Tech's darlings are basically silos for amassing enormous stores of data. Tim envisioned the web as a tool for an interconnected world. Instead, Tim says they have become surveillance platforms and gatekeepers of innovation.

Tim wants to restore his original vision for the Internet. The project is called "Solid". The key to his new connectivity vision are PODS (Personal Online Data Stores). PODS store the records of what websites you visit, what you buy, what you view or listen to online. The information stored in PODS would be under the control of the user. Anyone who wants access to your information would have to have your permission through a secure link and would not be allowed to store it. This allows you to control your own data and decide who gets to use it and how.

Big Tech and other corporate bullies would, under the Solid version of the Internet, find it difficult to categorically remove a rival website as they did with Parler and are trying to do with Minds.com. And your data would remain your own throughout.  Members' data would not be salable to just anyone. This would screw up the financial model for some of the more predatory social media sites, but it would certainly keep your data under our own control.

I, for one, plan to sign up as soon as its ready. I am heartily sick of the way the Internet is being tied up to be safer for leftists to continue their overthrow of the American way of life.

© 2021 by Tom King