Who survives the great purge on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and who does not?\u00a0 It\u2019s an interesting question.\u00a0 If being banished from YouTube is the end of your career then I guess the ranks will be significantly thinned next year.\u00a0 Apparently, the powers that be want to go this way.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if anyone steps into the breech with a platform that functions enough like YouTube to provide a revenue stream to those dispossessed from the mainstream sites.\u00a0 As demonstrated by the YouTube shooter, some people can make a living (of some sort) from YouTube popularity alone.\u00a0 I myself, not having a presence on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, am currently outside the influence of the conventional social media networks.\u00a0 But there are quite a few people who earn a living off of the advertising that a YouTube site generates.\u00a0 Will these people simply disappear or will they attempt to self-monetize via paid subscriptions or some other mechanism?\u00a0 This is a pretty important question.\u00a0 People talk a lot about building new platforms for the right but actually getting one up and running is much easier said than done.\u00a0 Being forced to do it will be a painful and difficult ordeal.\u00a0 But if anyone does make the transition it will be an important beachhead that will provide that person a significant advantage.\u00a0 If he can make the service available to others it will be a virtual monopoly since I doubt a second conservative social media entrepreneur will spring up to challenge it.<\/p>\n
Or maybe YouTube once put outside the reach of conservatives will be bypassed as a concept.\u00a0 After all, podcasts and website-based subscriptions are easy enough to do.\u00a0 No one has to use the YouTube model.\u00a0 Personally, I like the idea of a podcast type arrangement.\u00a0 I don\u2019t currently do anything behind a paywall but I actually think it\u2019s the arrangement that makes the most sense.\u00a0 If you have something of value people will be willing to pay something for it.\u00a0 The negotiations will of course be how much.\u00a0 I have in the past subscribed to a few of these.\u00a0 But I am very interested to see which way all this goes.\u00a0 In some ways, it seems the folks at YouTube and Twitter may be making a big mistake.\u00a0 If they do force the Right to become self-sufficient on their own platforms it might actually strengthen them and remove the leverage the Left currently has and uses against the Right to great effect.<\/p>\n
I really feel the Right Wing has been very ineffective up until now exploiting the power of the internet commercially.\u00a0 It\u2019s shocking how little has been done to challenge the media monopoly the old media enjoys even over the internet.\u00a0 Basically, a handful of sites make up the bulk of right wing opinion.\u00a0 Hopefully this will improve in the next few years and we can hope to see less reliance on Fox News and Drudge.\u00a0 Even Real Clear Politics seems to have way too much left wing editorial positioning and not enough interesting voices from the Right.\u00a0 American Greatness is good but voices from even farther to the Right should be included to capture the range of ideas that need to be considered.<\/p>\n
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