A discussion in the comments reminded me why I set up this website in the way it currently exists, namely a multi-subject blog.\u00a0 Full disclosure, I\u2019ve never had a Facebook or Twitter account.\u00a0 I have a Gab account but I\u2019ve never noticed much if any activity there, so I\u2019ll generalize by saying that my presence on line has been mostly a matter of membership on various websites.\u00a0 And this is an artifact of my generational identity.\u00a0 My children are members of the cohort that interacts on Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, etc.\u00a0 I never got around to all that.\u00a0 So, for that reason, shadow banning isn\u2019t something I have experienced.\u00a0 But I do know what regular banning is about.\u00a0 I have been on websites (specifically photography websites) that obviously took sides in the culture wars and allowed the lefties to bait the non-lefties.\u00a0 And when these non-lefties responded in kind they got censored and eventually banned.\u00a0 This is a demoralizing state of affairs.\u00a0 Eventually I decided that if I wanted to have a place on-line where I could talk about photography or movies or books I would have to make a space of my own where conservatives could interact on a level playing field with the Left.<\/p>\n
I was tempted to separate my political and non-political subjects onto separate web addresses but on further consideration I decided to keep them all under one roof.\u00a0 I did this for a couple of reasons.\u00a0 The first was, let\u2019s call it, truth in advertising.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t want photography or science fiction enthusiasts to come to my site and not know up front that I sat on the right side of the fence.\u00a0 Otherwise they might get comfortable but then one day discover that they had been tricked into associating with the unclean.\u00a0 That would be a source of irritation for both parties.<\/p>\n
The second reason was because I shouldn\u2019t have to separate them.\u00a0 Photographers assume that all photo websites are automatically politically leftist.\u00a0 Almost all literary websites are rabidly leftist.\u00a0 Trying to separate my subjects from my philosophical\/political identity seems like an apology for what I believe.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t want to do that.<\/p>\n
So, the interesting aspect of having a multi-subject website is the way it is handled by search engines.\u00a0 What I\u2019ve noticed is that Google will never link to any of my political stuff, period.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll get a substantial amount of organic search linkage for my photography content.\u00a0 Interestingly, a good amount of that is from Europe and East Asia.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to know what these folks think of my political content.\u00a0 The science fiction stuff is somewhere in the middle.\u00a0 Because I review mostly non-leftist sf content I probably don\u2019t get as much search activity as I could if I were more politically correct in my coverage.\u00a0 But so be it.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the whole point of this post is that I am using this site as an avenue for pursuing my interests on-line without sacrificing my right to be myself.\u00a0 I also hope to attract a readership that is interested in the subjects that I provide regardless of their political persuasion.\u00a0 I think that discussing photography should be possible for both left- and right-wing individuals without resorting to character assassination.\u00a0 Of course, on the political topics I assume there would be much more occasion for debate and even argument but I still contend that people can argue in a rational manner or at least agree to disagree and move on.\u00a0 But most importantly, my point of view isn\u2019t one that can be stifled by the powers that be.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get my say.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, with the recent acceleration of social media acting as the ideological gatekeeper of the internet maybe it\u2019s time for right-wing websites to once again become meeting places for those on the right who are tired of being threatened, brow-beaten and banned from the electronic town square.\u00a0 Vox Day says we must build our own institutions and infrastructure.\u00a0 This is my experiment in that direction.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see how the experiment works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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