The Battle for Free Speech
It is no secret that mainstream social media platforms are censoring voices and fiddling with the results to favour certain opinions and ideologies and eliminate others.
These Silicon Valley masters appear to be globalist and post-modern in their biases.
Conservative and more traditional opinions favouring the family and national sense of identity are being silenced.
This has now worked itself into a battle for free speech.
Many advocates of free speech are calling for government regulation for these near monopolistic social platforms to be regulated to ensure parity among all citizens and allow all voices and opinions to be heard.
A smaller group claim that social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are private businesses and should be allowed to ban, censor and discriminate as they please.
I have always argued for the latter position, despite holding opinions that these platforms would like to suppress if not silence entirely.
The argument was perfectly encapsulated by James Corbett of the The Corbett Report. So without further ado, I would urge everyone interested in this issue to listen to James Corbett's take on social media censorship and what we should do about it.
In a nutshell he argues that calling for government regulation of these platforms would cement in their monopolistic positions and it is precisely what they want.
The best response to a a social platform that is turning itself into a progressive echo chamber is to leave it for freer, and decentralised platform like steemit. Let the Silicon Valley giants of today become the MySpace dinosaurs of tomorrow.
