I agree that you cannot use the public infrastructure and the abuse of it led to the current telecoms myriad of rules and regulations that did, at a certain point, overstep their bounds and should be pulled back somewhat. Even if it is just to say we want to end the massive data mining and wholesale copying of communication for "later purpose use" that has been going on for over 50 years, at the least.
that's what will be interesting about seeing if it changes. the nice thing about considering "big tech" individual platforms as NOT the public space, is that we can move on and migrate with the times. nearly nobody would be talking about this particular video if it were not censored, in that conflict it has brought massive attention. facebook didn't overtake myspace as defining what "social media" was overnight. facebook is in clear decline, at very least in the US. twitter has taken up the mantle of the thing to use since trump came about, but it will also start to decline as people realize "twitter commentary" isn't fucking journalism. it too will decline, naturally. Going to "other" media and HIGHLIGHITING these abuses is what drives that. DJT JR. is going to sell a fuckton of books over this etc.
for the interesting 4pol post, it starts off reasonably and makes some good points about it being naturally abandoned by the 'dissenters' but his notions that libertarians must or should end up as white nationalists or national socialists, if they want to be non-race based, is wholly absurd. race-qualified humanity is fucking stupid and it is pretty damaging. I don't have the desire to go there and chastise a bunch of fuckwits over there, but they seem to be doing a good job making themselves look like fuckwits, so that is fine with me. I am MORE than happy knowing that they have a platform to say what they want so that others can reach their own conclusions. they are no better than any other [race] nationalist and, as we see with the Texan "libertarian" killed over pointing a gun at a car he was blocking while protesting in support of BLM, race nationalism and liberty for all cause are highly attractive to people capable of only partial thought who desperately want to shed responsibility for their actions onto some "other".
Just because they are attractive, doesn't mean they are good. race nationalists are collectivists, every form of collectivist ideology is wholly at odds with individualism and liberty which is and should be the pitch of libertarians. JoJo is a shit ambassador for the brand, yet again :(
You naturally glommed onto the race aspect of the 4pol post, which was really about the evolution of free speech on a given platform. I kind of figured you'd strain yourself on that point, and you did.
The point of the post is that 4pol did not kick people off for hating racists or being Commies. They left on their own. They also had somewhere else to go.
By default, you cannot leave Google, which is a government-sanctioned search monopoly with vast power. And by default you cannot leave FB and Twitter.
"facebook didn't overtake myspace as defining what "social media" was overnight. facebook is in clear decline, at very least in the US. twitter has taken up the mantle of the thing to use since trump came about, but it will also start to decline as people realize "twitter commentary" isn't fucking journalism. it too will decline, naturally."
Reports of Facebook's death are greatly exaggerated. MySpace was the largest social media platform for 20 months. Facebook has been the largest social media platform for 9 years.
Your idea that FB must certainly decline and be replaced is Gambler's Fallacy. Just because something happened before, does not mean it will happen again. Facebook isn't going anywhere, you are seriously out of date with that. It might, but there is no natural cycle as you are contending. Hopefully the visual will help you see it. People stopped saying "Facebook will die soon!" about 6 years ago
Twitter has in no way 'replaced' FB, they are completely different platforms. Twitter popularized a new TYPE of social media, FB competes with that with IG.
Just because Twitter is down the scale does not mean it's 'losing influence'. Far from it, it's just that other platforms are rising up, usually for outside US. In the US, Facebook, with Instagram and Whatsapp, is BY FAR the king of social media. Twitter and Google are right there.
So, to cap off this history lesson, Facebook (with instagram and whatsapp), Google, and Twitter are the Big 3 of social media. They have been for years, they are not going anywhere, and overall, their influence is GROWING.
Unfortunately I've used up the post because of a common (and old) misconception about how we let Facebook go because "soon it will be replaced". We're past the age of Olds and Studebaker and Nash and Chevrolet and Ford and Chrysler and Dodge and Plymouth and Pierce Arrow and Duesenberg and Cadillac and Packard and DeSoto and Tucker and all the others, and we are in the age of the Big 3.