I didn't want to be insensitive to a plight I've myself faced, and comment on this situation when the whole debacle started, BUT I'm convinced - inconvenient and dejecting though it may be now - that the bannings from Amazon, Paypal, etc. - are going to prove a net positive for you in the long run, Roosh.
And for RVF and the red pill community as a whole.
Not only does cleaving away from the platforms that use their politics as a club to arbitrarily shut down livelihoods a step in the direction of antifragility, it fosters the creation and sustainment of alternate platforms that don't censor people simply because they have unpopular opinions, much less put them on blast in public.
It also incentives the creation of assets that you own, like Vox Day with his publishing house (although admittedly he sells via Amazon), InfoWars (they're getting banned from everything left and right but they're still moving forward).
It's very early stages but I think we'll see more use of crypto in these situations. I already pay one of my Ukrainian team members in crypto because it's the cheapest and fastest way as Ukrainian Paypal accounts can't even receive money. We'll also platforms like Freestartr come to life (which seems to be down at the moment).
And we'll see a move away from reliance on third party platforms with huge user bases (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) to a greater degree of self-reliance and ownership of assets.
One of the things I've seen in my business over and over again is various business owners losing their incomes overnight at the behest of Google (e.g. sites monetized by Adsense, or Adwords ads getting too expensive), Facebook (FB ads becoming less effective and more expensive over time), Amazon (banning, change of algorithm, change of policy), Stripe / Paypal (arbitrary, indisputable banning and withholding of funds), etc.
It always sucks when it happens but call me old fashioned, I believe that resilient, honest and hardworking people end up ahead eventually.
And for RVF and the red pill community as a whole.
Not only does cleaving away from the platforms that use their politics as a club to arbitrarily shut down livelihoods a step in the direction of antifragility, it fosters the creation and sustainment of alternate platforms that don't censor people simply because they have unpopular opinions, much less put them on blast in public.
It also incentives the creation of assets that you own, like Vox Day with his publishing house (although admittedly he sells via Amazon), InfoWars (they're getting banned from everything left and right but they're still moving forward).
It's very early stages but I think we'll see more use of crypto in these situations. I already pay one of my Ukrainian team members in crypto because it's the cheapest and fastest way as Ukrainian Paypal accounts can't even receive money. We'll also platforms like Freestartr come to life (which seems to be down at the moment).
And we'll see a move away from reliance on third party platforms with huge user bases (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) to a greater degree of self-reliance and ownership of assets.
One of the things I've seen in my business over and over again is various business owners losing their incomes overnight at the behest of Google (e.g. sites monetized by Adsense, or Adwords ads getting too expensive), Facebook (FB ads becoming less effective and more expensive over time), Amazon (banning, change of algorithm, change of policy), Stripe / Paypal (arbitrary, indisputable banning and withholding of funds), etc.
It always sucks when it happens but call me old fashioned, I believe that resilient, honest and hardworking people end up ahead eventually.