Sam Harris Drops Patreon - Other Creators Follow

[Mr Puggsly]

SpokenTruth said:

Then were are the major right leaning platforms?  Or can only left leaning people create such things?

I don't know what happens with these companies. They probably had left wing people from the start, but they kept politics out of it as they were growing.

Once they became major platforms, maybe they felt a need to be virtuous and silence views. Maybe other powerful companies encourage them to silence people which is the collusion aspect we've already seen. These companies tend to be in left leaning cities so they're in a vacuum of thought.

We've also moved to a place where the ToS are completely arbitrary and convoluted. Instead of simply controlling speech on their platforms, they've gone as far as banning people simply for things they've said elsewhere. Sargon of Akkad is a good example, it appears he was banned from Patreon due to video that was no way related to Patreon.

Due to all of this, we need new platforms for creators. This is what left wingers are pushing, free market and what not. The only problem is you have major companies colluding against competitors and creators.

Essentially, right leaning people/skeptics/etc are continuing to work on platforms they aren't wanted on because that's where viewers are. While these same platforms are trying to silence them in various ways like cutting their funding, shadow banning, changing the ToS to work against them, etc. But people have to fight back and keep exposing what major platforms are doing. The end goal of these platforms is controling what views we are exposed to.

Last edited by Mr Puggsly - on 18 December 2018