Big Tech has been dramatically increasing censorship against conservatives since the election. They don’t want anyone hearing about it having been stolen. The censorship had been going on for several years, since Trump won the 2016 election. That was something the progressives in tech and big business never thought possible, and they resolved that it would not happen again. Apparently they have been successful.
With Trump having been banned from Twitter and Facebook, I finally decided I had had enough. How long are we supposed to tolerate the abuse Dorsey and Zuckerberg were throwing at us daily? I deleted my Twitter accounts yesterday. My Facebook account has been deactivated from many years back and never gets used.
It is time to realize we are in a war, one we did not ask for or want, and it is time to begin fighting back. With that in mind, here are some thoughts for people concerned about the power these plutocrats wield and who want to stop supporting them and get out from under their shadow.
There are several Twitter replacements. The best, IMO, is gab.com. It is good and getting better. They just started a video hosting site and they have a smartphone in development. Gab is good because you can start Groups, to separate feeds by subject. This is the closest thing to Twitter’s Tweetdeck interface, though you can’t as yet run multiple columns at once.
Most conservatives seem to have gravitated to Parler rather than Gab. I think that’s a shame, because I can’t make heads or tails of its interface. And it has some terms of service that are concerning.
A new kid on the block in Clouthub.com. It’s in its infancy and could use a lot of work, but it is up and running.
A good facebook replacement is MeWe.com. It’s interface is quite developed. Like the others, it has had a massive influx of users over the past couple of weeks.
Another is usa.life.
Search
Google is one of the most dangerous companies on earth. It decidedly is NOT your friend, contrary to what everyone used to say about it. Google wants to know everything about you, and wants you to know only what they want you to know.
I used DuckDuckGo for years, but I found it censoring a “biden gropes girls” image search in the USA region – the very region where it mattered – during the campaign season about four months back. I approached them on it through two avenues, and they did not respond. They’ve corrected it now, after the election, but I’ve switched to:
Qwant.Com. Very clean searches, nice features and interface, no tracking, etc.
At this point I still have a gmail account, but I’m weaning off it. For personal use I’ve gone to the free webmail at vivaldi.net. Very nice service, and it even has an easy to set up implementation of end-to-end encryption.
Browser
I don’t trust google’s Chrome. A far better browser is Vivaldi. It is feature-loaded, and is still developing. It is built on a Chrome base, but the folks at Vivaldi cut out the tracking and what-not. They have a long history of respecting privacy, going all the way back to the original Opera browser.
E-commerce
Amazon is unconscionably huge, and constitutes a threat to the economic wellbeing of our nation. And now it has gotten very serious about censoring conservatives as well, by kicking them off its massive web server structure.
I’m giving some biz to Walmart. It’s not great but better than Az. I use Az as a research tool and then go out on the web to find where to purchase. Vitacost is pretty good for supplements.
*Just today Walmart announced it would not donate to any politician who supported President Trump’s challenge of the electoral results.
Youtube
Youtube is owned by Google, and has become extremely censorious of conservatives. They started by demonitization, now they’re deplatforming. Some alternatives are Bitchute, Brighteon, and Rumble. Rumble is a nice platform, but it requires your mobile phone number if you want to leave comments
Operating system
I’ve also been on Linux for a few years now. It’s a better OS than Windows, and its built by folks that like privacy as much as you. Tons of free software are available, to suit most peoples’ needs. There are many good flavors of Linux, but the one I recommend is MX Linux. They do a fantastic job developing and supporting the OS. Most machines take to Linux very nicely.
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