Google, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, PayPal, Apple, Microsoft, Kickstarter, etc., etc., etc.\u00a0 The internet giants will be doing everything in their power to shut down the opposition to Dementia Joe.\u00a0 They will de-platform, ban and demonetize everyone on the right they can think of.<\/p>\n
Will this work?\u00a0 No, not really.\u00a0 What it will do is change the basis of how things will work going forward.\u00a0 Conservatives won\u2019t be able to free ride on the social network platforms and monetize their popularity through Google\u2019s monolithic stranglehold on the flow of information and internet advertising.\u00a0 The Right will be forced to set themselves up as Mom-and-Pop shops doing their advertising in places like Parler and Gab.\u00a0 Well, so what?\u00a0 That\u2019s probably a good idea.\u00a0 Being under the thumb of the Tech Giants means having to pass their ever more biased speech codes until you\u2019d end up either sounding exactly like the Left or completely silent.<\/p>\n
The harder challenge will be the banks and credit companies.\u00a0 PayPal and some of the other e-commerce payment processors have also been cancelling out the accounts of people whose politics they don\u2019t approve of.\u00a0 The last I heard there are some alternate processors who will serve instead.\u00a0 There are probably problems associated with the alternatives but right now those are the breaks.\u00a0 It can be expected that the Left will continue to put pressure on these alternate providers to close ranks to try to starve out the Right.\u00a0 And for that reason, in the future it should be a priority of any organized front on the Right to build up financial platforms of our own to protect us from the Left\u2019s blockade actions.<\/p>\n
Up until now I haven\u2019t monetized my site at all.\u00a0 I really want to find out if I have anything worth selling.\u00a0 But I have noticed a few folks making the first moves to putting in paywalls around some content and accepting a few reasonable ads on their sites.\u00a0 I like what the ZMan is doing. \u00a0He gives a plug for businesses that are owned by conservatives.\u00a0 That makes a lot of sense.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to have to have a lot more of exactly that.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ve been threatening to finish a book I\u2019ve been working on for months.\u00a0 Well, the excitement of the last couple of months has set me back at least that long but one day I\u2019ll be peddling my opus magnum and I\u2019ll have to decide whether I will use Amazon exclusively or try some other venue.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll even have a store of my own.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
But the thing about all this is that it would go a lot faster and easier if we had a billionaire who had the wherewithal to set something up that catered to us.\u00a0 A combination Facebook, YouTube, PayPal and Kickstarter just for the Right.\u00a0 No more deplatforming, no more banning no more doxxing.\u00a0 Basically, a place of our own.\u00a0 And meanwhile the billionaire would make money hand over fist doing it.\u00a0 Think of the merchandising and other opportunities available from having almost a monopoly over about 150 million Americans.\u00a0 Now that really is worth the trouble of setting up.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re reading this Mr. President think about it.\u00a0 Building that would feel like a revolution all by itself.<\/p>\n