Alt Social Media, Corporate Fascism, and related matters

Alt Social Media

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Right on, right on.

I've started publishing in Gab on my laptop.  Works fine.  It is Alternative Social Media, or an alternative to mainstream social media.  

Yes, first we had Social Media.  Then the Corporate Fascists used it to promote and normalise their sociopolitical agenda and basically turned it into a tool of propaganda and a platform for corporate beliefs.  So it became a platform not for the people to express their views, but a platform where the Corporation could express their views through the people by ensuring only those that agreed with them stays on it.  So in other words, 'big tech' as they are increasingly being called, don't need to say a word on 'Social Media', they just have to ensure that only those who say what they think are allowed to keep their accounts.  So most of the people on Facebook, Twitter, etc, become the voice of the Corporate Fascists.  Corporate fascism and censorship, whilst getting rid of Trump, also gets rid of Free Speech, thereby getting rid of the means by which you can challenge and get rid of corporate fascism.
  

Corporate fascism and censorship, whilst getting rid of Trump, also gets rid of Free Speech, thereby getting rid of the means by which you can challenge and get rid of corporate fascism.

It's very 'zen' isn't it.  Do by not doing.  Say by not saying.  Overthrow a president by not overthrowing him.  That's what been happening for a while.  'Community Guidelines' can now silence anyone from you to the president.  In this respect, it supercedes the law, the constitution, or anything that stands in the way of the Corporate Fascists.  

Man, how is it that a platform like Gab, that champions free speech is 'alternative' now?  So not having 'free speech' is the norm?  How has that become a selling point?  

Yeah, let's join Facebook, where if you speak against Jewish terrorism in Palestine; stating that the British are pet lovers because they are too aloof to form warm down-to-earth relationships with people; stating that David Bowie was globally famous because of western cultural hegemony; saying that Chinese treatment of Uighurs is inhuman and the chinese should upgrade their humanity to include empathy and appreciation of difference; you could get banned.  (which are some of the various reasons why i was blocked and banned quite a few times) 

I suppose Facebook is largely built for the easily led, or shallow of mind enough to think anything from Friends to The Big Bang Theory is 'great entertainment'.  If you just want to like some lamebrained celeb, worship the pope, like The Big Bang Theory, post up pictures of your dinner, or abide by what the mainstream media and elite want you to think, you're fine.  You'll get by without a, 'Warning' on your 'Account Status' pending a couple of strikes before you're out.  

But i can understand what is going on here.  Corporate fascism is getting rid of free speech, free thought, and free listening, and directing people's energies towards that which they approve of.  When they do that long enough, people will be dumbed down enough to think 'free speech' nothing more than criticising apple for not including a 3.5mm port for overpriced airheadpods or whatever it's called. 

I first observed this phenomenon amongst the chinese in asia whom viewed free speech as troublesome and those who spoke freely, and thought freely, as 'troublemakers' - which is why, for instance Indians and Malays are marginalised in Singapore, and Uighurs are incarated in China.  I realised that they too believed in free speech, as in being free to order a bowl of noodles with speech.  I'm not being funny or insulting here.  They believe in every right the rest of us do, but the arena wherein it is applied to them is highly contracted.  So they too believe in democracy, which to them, metaphorically, the availability and freedom to purchase different type of noodles in different locations, as opposed to the existence, according equal respect, and appreciation of different cultures, religions, ideas, races, and political parties. 

So the same thing is going on with Corporate Fascism.  They are trying to reduce and redefine the human mind to narrow its aspirational arena to the point that they can feel free and unhindered simply because they can start a subscription with Netflix, camp outside of an apple store overnight, and 'like' the next asinine Hollywood gore-drenched and depravity-doused production.  

Marx said that all history has been the history of class struggle.  Well, integral to this 'class struggle' is the effort to redefine the human and identity of the people so that they would content themselves with an app game or two and a year's subscription to Amazon prime and little besides so that the upper class can have full control and profit.  Mainstream Media and Social Media is part of the upper class struggle to keep the common wo/man dumb and docile.  Mainstream social media is one of the tools.


So now i'm on the misnomic, Gab, where you can talk and gab, so long as you do it with text.  

I know i'm in 'enemy territory', with lots of right-wingers - but then again, the corporate fascists are right-wingers too. 

But i have one thing in common with right-wingers.  I know of the natural right of human beings to burp when they need to.  Hence, similarly when it comes to free speech.  It is a God-given right, that is pre-built into the human operating system.  And no fascist firewall, governmental, corporate or otherwise must be allowed to inhibit its natural expression, because with Free Speech, i get to know what i didn't, i get to challenge my ideas through the consideration of, or challenging, another's ideas, i get to listen to what i'm not accustomed to, cross-check my ideas with other better or worse ideas to determine which i should keep or kick; and it is also the means by which i can oppose another.  That, in essence, is education.  Contrast, comparison, and critique develops a more astute conscience.

Social Media is Strengthening the Right-Wing

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Like i said a year ago, social media is thinking out of its arse.  The more they kick out people who don't think along their discriminatory 'community guidelines', the more they are going to drive them all into other locations.  And what do you think is going to happen then?  These alleged miscreants are going to get stronger, be flanked with largely similar views, and become even more entrenched in them.  

My approach is, keep you enemies close so that you can convince them to be your friend.  If not, they are all going to gather, grow, and germinate elsewhere without any weed killers about to keep their population low through debate. That is logic.  Live long and prosper. Nanu nanu.

This is so simple.  Either Big Tech and Social Media are a bunch of morons who don't know something as simple as this, or they know it, and actually want it to happen.  Which is it?  

Anyway, i like bad company, like right-wingers.  They make me think, and challenge me in ways those whom agree with me won't.  An axe is sharpened by something of a rougher texture so that it can get smooth right.  

Love Your Neighbour more than Celebrities

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Too bad i'm not someone famous.  If i was, people would be paying attention and the world will be changing for the better, and Big Tech would be sending out drones after me, and governments would be wetting their beds till said drones get me.

That's another thing, i'm sure there are other ultra luminescent luminaries out there as well.  But we never hear of them because we are too busy paying attention to celebrities - i on the other hand, am constantly hunting gems amongst the people.

Listening to each other is the first salvo in the battle against fascism.

People should realise that the wisdom of all the Mr Nobodies out there put together is a million times more than the worth of all celebs put together.  If the celebs out there have achieved anything, it is to get people to discount the oceans of wisdoms amongst the people, and live off the puddle of murky muck that is their wisdom to the point that we become too withered in the head to handle anything more.

And what happens over time is that the oceans dry up as people outsource their thinking to corporations, governments and celebs.  That is when Fascism, governmental or corporate, will have its way.  They don't need to dumb you down.  They'll just get you to ignore each other till you don't find any point in getting smart.  And they do it by getting you to ignore each other in favour of celebs.  Listening to each other is the first salvo in the battle against fascism.  

The Error comes after the Trump Era, not WITH It

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We are living in a new era people.  Previously, Corporate Fascism has existed.  Well, it has since time immemorial, in different forms.  It's just like in that movie Fallen, with that excellent Denzel, where the devil can't be killed because it is constantly inhabiting one form to another.  In singapore, for instance, the government functions as a corporation and have married the Corporate and Fascism in the form of the State.  In the west, Corporate Fascism is the most powerful lobby in the governmental foyer and porch.  

But now that they have silenced even the President of the United States.  Now they they have 'community guidelined' Trump out before his term ended, they don't need to put up any pretense.  They have come out of the closet, from under the bed, out from under the rock, out of the telephone box, and now stand with cape and codpiece with arms akimbo looking at human civilisation with a knowing smirk.  Antifa must be confused as hell in being faced with Trump on the one side, and the Corporate Fascists on the other, and now knowing what to do.

As unelected entities, they actually arrested the president of the United States, and incarcerated him till his tenure was over.  They didn't do it physically.  Like i said, things have been getting very zen lately with the corporate fascists.  They can do without doing.  They did it in result, by silencing him.  And in that, that was a clear cut muscle flexing in the face of not only the people of America, but the world as well.  They became the kingmakers, the lawmakers.  All the profits they have been making from us are now in effect 'taxes' paid to them to run the world.  

I didn't sign up for that.  And never will.  My mum and God didn't put me here to kow tow to anyone other than the truth.

edX

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