The Rise of AltStream Media
I've been highlighting the issue of the consequences or marginalising alternative thinkers by MSM for a couple of years now, but thanks to the increasingly belligerent censorious actions of Mainstream Social Media - twitter, facebook, instagram - the rest of the right-wing whom are at loggerheads with the aforementioned are starting their own sector on the net, and it is now growing and perhaps set to become as, or far bigger than the denizens of Mainstream Social Media.
It was given a great push with the deposing of Trump in the US by the Corporate Conglomerate. Masses are now flocking into this Altstream Media, buying office space, servers, etc.
But it is going to grow even further as Traditional Religionists, True Left-wingers as opposed to the incorporated 'left' and 'liberals', Catholics, anti-abortionists, those who aren't aligned with western culture and perspectives throughout the world, all flock to, and become a part of, Altstream Media.
A silent and mass revolt is now taking place online, and it is all because Mainstream Social Media thought they can control and demand global assimilation without consequence. And the worse thing is, it isn't going to stop there. They will probably face actual attacks by organisations that are militantly anti-fascist, given that they being unelected by the people, actually took it upon themselves to silence Presidents and peoples. Antifascist organisations out there who have taken issue with far less, aren't, unfortunately, going to be pleased about it.
What ought to have been done is, instead of marginalising those who don't agree with the views of the MSM or flout their arbitrarily and self-servingly imposed 'community guidelines', they should have kept them within the Mainstream Social Media. If you send you enemies away, they'll discover each other and form a bigger force, and with time, compare notes, and produce ideologies, constitutions, nations, and basically a whole eco and egosystem that supports their vision, or enables the co-existence of their perspectival inclinations within an alternative internet and world itself.
My preference is to keep my enemies closer so i can convince them to be my friend through offering them different points of view. But when you send them away, they'll be faced with only their point of view, become more entrenched in it, and draw in those whom are similar, thus making them even bigger.
And when most thinkers, be they right or left or whatnot, have left Mainstream Social Media, MSM will only be left with those who go about 'liking' asinine sit coms to the latest overpriced Sam-shite or Apple product. This will have knock-on impact on life itself, and the Altstream might very well become Mainstream.
All these cretins who just go about 'liking' things, following celebs, k-popper dopes, etc, etc, will be the ones populating MSM. They basically don't do anything other than engage in pointless pastimes, consume designer nonsense, and are generally ignorant and apathetic. MSM and the Corporate Conglomerate wanted that, as they would be easy to control and siphon money off. And to encourage that, they went about silencing people who thought, and did not readily say 'ahhh' to whatever biased bollocks Mainstream News and Culture spewed.
However, those migrating to Altstream are people whom are active, and they are more inclined to do something about society, and they are growing. MSM started just as a platform for people to connect, and became a tool for consumption and turning the people shallow. It was pluralistic getting people of all sorts from thinkers to consumers. And MSM propped up the consumers with the shallow posts of Mainstream News like the BBC, ads, and watched as MSM was inundated with the juvenile and shallow, which in turn incorporated all new young signups on a daily basis into the realm of 'don't worry, be happy and stupid'. And to bolster this and the views of the Mainstream News, they banned and blocked anything that countered their Gospel According to MSM.
ASM, however, is getting its definition from being political, rebellious, anti-establishment, and taking things more seriously than a 'gamer' or a 'k-pop' fan.
If they grow enough in numbers, society is going to be faced with active Altstreamers on the one side, and on the other, intellectually deficient K-poops, fanboys and fangals, including those whose agenda are supported by the Mainstream elite, and so on from Mainstream Social Media. Other than those whose agenda is endorsed by the MSM, like the LGBTwits whom are very politically active for instance, Altstream is being populated by those whom are equally active, but from a far wider range of persuasions, and many of them have cross-cutting interests and political, perspectival inclinations as well.
I myself am donating to the Altstream sites like Gab, and so are many others despite my being in ideological disagreement with them. But we are united in one thing. We will not be told whom we can listen to, what we can consider, what we can realise, by an oligarchy comprising Mainstream Social Media, Mainstream News, and their colluders in governments.
So Big Tech ought to do some thinking before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even Amazon, becomes a thing of the past as the global movements of all sorts, marginalised by the Mainstream Elite and supremacists, began to move against these unelected powers who not only enforce their agenda, but support racist and fascist governments in silencing those such governments want to censor.
The Altstream is growing by the minute, and Mainstream News is remaining silent about it, and fearing it, as they too will be supplanted along with the MSM whom they support. With time, the Altstream will gradually be defined not solely by other western right-wingers, but by anti-colonialists, antifascists, anti-white supremacists, anti-jewish supremacists, anti-chinesesupremacists, etc, etc, and so many others silenced daily by the fascist elitecentric Mainstream Social Media.
What's going to emerge from Altstream is yet to be seen, and is certainly a sociological and intellectual curiosity for those who get their kicks out of living and studying life as opposed to killing it in 'app games'. There is going to be an ideological battle there too, but at least, it is going to be a battle, instead of what goes on in MSM, which is people who dissent being quietly taken out the back and shot by way of blocks and bans. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have been subjected to that. And MSM justifies that by pointing to a handful of people who call for unjustifiable violence against peoples to justify their arbitrary action against millions.
The main difference between MSM and ASM is similar to the difference between the Corporate Conglomerate vs Trump. In the Trump debacle, the Corporate Conglomerate took control of the MEANS by which anyone, including them, can be challenged. Trump, whatever he had to say, left the means by which he could be removed in the control of the people. Those 'means' is that of Free Speech. MSM wants to trademark 'free speech' and own it through the ownership of minds through the ownership of the platform wherein it develops. And more and more people, including myself, aren't having it.
In a nutshell, the altStream aims to hAlt Corporate Ctrl and Del of Free Speech, Free Listening, and as a result, enable a more well-rounded consideration of things. The Mainstream News has been attempting to demonise the very idea of Alternative by associating it with far-right killers and sociopaths, but the actions of MSM against all sorts of thinkers, and thinkers themselves, will very likely contribute to the evolution of ALT to be more than what the MSM self-servingly presents it to be.
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