Quote: (05-03-2019 06:33 PM)budoslavic Wrote:
POTUS has been paying attention.
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Edit. "Action" please, not "monitoring". We'd like to see Silicon Valley Tech Giants squirm by shitting their pants.
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The censorship actually works in favor of Trump's campaign in some way. It gives his base "proof" of MSM being against him and reinforces the notion that Trump supporters are being oppressed. In some way, Trump stands to benefit by playing the victim, identity-politics card. And he doesn't have to put forward any solutions. It is in his best interests to stoke the conflict until the election is over. It diverts attention anyway from his failure to build the wall, foreign wars, as well. Keep in mind, everyone loves to play identity politics these days, despite their supposed opposition to it... Even white people. Unless there is some paradigm shift that happens in politics, or black swan event, this is the new normal. Expect levels of distrust and overt hostility of being of opposite political inclinations to continue, and possibly worsen.
The fatal flaw was big tech's strategies in 2016 against Trump. Blinded by their elitism they thought Trump had no way to win. Despite that, the evidence is pretty clear that they manipulated their platforms (maybe an argument can be made that they're allowed to do that because they're companies), but despite this they didn't do enough to halt Trump's momentum. By ratcheting up the censorship after the fact, they let Trump get his message out for free. Once followers were latched onto it, it is no longer relevant if he's shut out of these platforms anyway. He's already set the stage for a Media takedown, round 2. Any more censorship or no-platforming at this point gives him vital ammunition for 2020. The funny thing is that they were slow to go after him (I'm thinking of twitter especially), because he brought so much free publicity, ad dollars, attention to the platforms, despite the fact that they could have gone after him. There profit motives will prove to be their undoing...