I don't generally post memes, but this one image I found so compelling that I really wanted to share. All those who have seen 1984 remember poor Winston Smith's anguish, huddled in his corner, trying to preserve his sanity by writing in his diary.
Our modern day planetary diary is Facebook and Zuckerberg sees everything you post and when he is not pleased you will feel his wrath.
We're living very dangerous times when efforts are made to curb free speech, be it on Facebook, YouTube or Google. Users whose political views contradict the official narrative are being taken down one by one.
Yesterday, for instance, seemed like a good day, as one of the FB pages I follow, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, reappeared online, after a month's long ban. However, Big Brother Zuckerberg decided to take down two other conservative pages as off today.
Oh, and also on Facebook today I was presented with an ad for a “no-bias moderated news” page, because why bother my silly little brain reading whatever news source I like and decide for myself when someone is kind enough to offer to do the thinking for me and tell me what to believe.
Getting the Facebook refugees on Steemit
Free thinkers vow to stay on Facebook and spread their views as long as they can, but they are also establishing themselves on other alternative platforms. All of these hope to overtake Facebook one day, just as we, here on Steemit, dream of doing.
This got me thinking than we need to do more to attract free thinkers on this platform and I don't know if us just posting random comments on FB is enough to get the attention needed to attract all those fed with being told what to believe by Zuckerberg.
I know that many fellow Steemians are doing their fair share of spreading the news and getting new users on this platform, but maybe the big guys up there should also get involved, getting some ads running, on Facebook and other platforms.
Once people get established on alternative platforms it will be harder to get them invest time and money to come on Steemit.
