Stanley Holditch
The best thing about conservative censorship is the way conservatives get butt-hurt about being excluded from platforms.
First it was Alex Jones, who took to starting fights at fried chicken joints after his insane bullshit got booted from YouTube, Facebook, and basically everywhere that matters.
Then you have the hilarious attempts at Congress to “catch” Google at censoring conservative results in their searches. And ever more hilarious, this guy that doesn’t understand how his iPhone works. The pervasive and illogical belief in being somehow targeted by allowing an app location access is kind of a window into the whole “conservative persecution” mindset.
When McConnell’s account was briefly suspended (legitimately) it set off the loon alarm and conservatives believed that they had mounting proof of a systemic campaign to erase conservative presence on the big three platforms.
Of course the answer is not a liberal technospiracy to flout conservative thought — it’s simply that the brains in tech largely align on left-leaning thought. Their hub is San Francisco, most come from liberal arts backgrounds and affluent families. The right simply isn’t producing a whole lot of hot social platforms. And given that conservatives generally skew older, less educated, and rural (where internet access lags the rest of the country) it’s a fairly natural progression of events that there aren’t tons of outlets that are organically right-leaning.
The ones that do exist seem to have major problems just getting the basics right, like allowing you in. I tried to join Gab to see the one platform that has gotten national attention as a haven for right-wing thought, but I can’t get past the login screen because the confirmation email never shows up.
So how pissed should conservatives be? Plenty, but pissed at themselves for having built virtually no platforms other than StormFront where their views can be heard.
