What the hell is going on?
This past week has seen yet another blatant purge on the part of the Marxist platform YouTube, the second most viewed website on the internet after Google (its parent).
The prominent victims-du-jour this time are two Canadians who were decade-plus YouTube veterans, namely Dan Dicks from Pressfortruth.ca and Stefan Molyneux.
Though Dan Dicks is arguably more well-known in the truth community for his years of exposing harsh truths, Stefan Molyneux - a philosopher - may perhaps not seem as a threat to the Marxist-Socialist establishment that is gate-kept by Big Tech giants. Mind you, Molyneux was no small potatoes and, after Alex Jones of Infowars, had the largest number of followers and views. In his own words:
I logged into my channel. And, eh, well, there was nothing there. Just a message that says you've been a bad-thinking guy and your 14-15 year history, 3700 videos, billions of comments, 300 million views+, almost a million subscribers...as far as I know it's the second biggest YouTube erasure in history.
As you can see, those numbers are quite impressive.
So why did YouTube purge Molyneux who is merely a philosopher who only expresses his views?
Simple. In order to be the subservient puppet to the implementation of a Marxist-Socialist state, YouTube has now reached the point that it cannot allow people to challenge the mainstream narratives.
What Molyneux brought to the table was his ability to bring a no-nonsense approach to public discourse with simple questions that challenged the Marxist ideologies of those on the "far left".
As we have seen in recent months (and years for that matter) is the inability of the educationally and intellectually inept leftist youth to employ and demonstrate modicum of critical thinking skills and formulate arguments to justify the ideologies they adhere to; as they cannot do so, they resort to immediate tantrums, labels, cancellations, and calls for banning anyone that challenges their beliefs.
The backbone of a Marxist or Socialist system is to crush any dissent or voice that goes against their system of oppression.
Therefore, as YouTube (and Twitter and Facebook for that matter) are facilitating the desired implementation of such an evil system as per their masters' orders, they must toe the party line and ban those who post a threat.
This will continue in earnest until enough of the masses migrate off these platforms.
The good news is that there are already movements that indicate this. For example, in the period of less than a week over 500,000 left Twitter to go to Parler - a platform that encourages free speech and doesn't suppress it as is done on Jack's platform.
Josh Sigurdson - another Canadian - has recently advocated for a mass migration of truth tellers from YouTube to other platforms such as Bitchute, LBRY, Flote, and so on. I think this is a great idea. YouTube, Twitter, et al - as well as their investors - will certainly take notice should such a mass migration occur. You can hear Josh interviewing Dan Dicks in his recent (July 16) interview THE LATEST PURGE! - Dan Dicks of Press For Truth DELETED From YouTube!
The crux of the matter, I think, really bowls down to what Molyneux stated. Namely, i.e., that ultimately, they want to crush any kind of discourse.
This began with the usurpation of educational institutions.
As a long time educator myself having taught at the collegiate level, I strongly agree with this sentiment. Too many American and Canadian universities have been overtaken by these ideologies and their faculty have tragically been coerced into indoctrinating them in their curricula and students; for without obliging, they will be themselves subject to cancel-culture, of not outright dismissal from their duties (you can find tons of examples of this at www.thecollegefix.com/ and www.campusreform.org/).
Stefan was recently interviewed on Modern Wisdom Podcast #195 - Stefan Molyneux | Why YouTube Deleted My Channel and elaborates on this and other points regarding the overall direction that this mess is headed into. You can watch the video and for these points you can start around the 1:03:00 mark:
This 5-6 minute stretch is packed with a powerful punch; definitely worth the watch.
Keep Supporting Dan & Stefan
As these amazing voices for truth and reason have been purged from YouTube, we need to keep hearing them. You can do so via the following:
Dan Dicks
His main website is pressfortruth.ca. He is also on other platforms such as Minds, LBRY, and Flote. And his videos can be seen on Bitchute.com.
Stefan Molyneux
Stephan's videos can also be seen on Bitchute. His websites are www.freedomain.com/ and stefanmolyneux.com/.
Time to Migrate / Move on...
I deleted my Facebook account years ago. Twitter is a cesspool of hatred (even though they shamefully state that that is what they try to prevent) and really is toxic. YouTube, though it has the masses, needs to be put out of business.
Alternatives exist for all of these. Parler.com instead of Twitter. Bitchute.com instead of YouTube. Minds.com, Flote.app , and LBRY.tvinstead of Facebook.
Freedom.social is yet another remarkable freedom-oriented platform that also has an alternative to YouTube called FreedomTube; it has its own marketplace where buyers and sellers can exchange in their own native 1776 cryptocurrency token, an encryption-based messaging system, Groups, Blogs, Crowdsourcing capabilities, and more. This site has amazing and incredible potential; so, be sure to check it out.
In the end, people will always migrate towards freedom-oriented environments. Let these toxic platforms kill themselves and let us all build more truth- and freedom-loving communities that have not been overtaken by the Marxist-Socialist-Communist establishment.
Freedom will prevail.
In Peace & Liberty,
Marxis? Haha. :P
Beware Dan Dicks as he is a profiteer, religious nut, and ardent supporter of cannabis "legalization" ie the state.
Also beware Bitchute as it is heavily censored. Just another YouTube! LBRY is the decentralized YouTube alternative. And beware Parler which is owned by Google and requires you to identify yourself to use messaging etc.
Oh man I tried to listen to Molyneaux but he uses thousands of words to say almost nothing. He loves to hear himself drone on.
Nice to hear from you again my friend. I personally don't think Dan is a profiteer. I mean, do you really think he makes a fortune making these videos and reporting truth? Same for many others like Luke at wearechange; independent journalists obviously don't get rich. They do this day in and day out. So, I guess we'll have to disagree on this one.
All platforms have issues. Where did you hear (verify?) that Parler is owned by Google? I have did some quick research but have found nothing to this effect. All I've been able to find so far is that Dan Bongino invested a stake in the company as did the two founders. As it is a private company, this information does remain obscure (and should also definitely be taken with a large caveat).
For Molyneux, as a philosopher, he can definitely tend to stretch a thought into what can result in a 20-minute utterance. But that's his style. To each his own.
The main idea here, is to have places where people can express themselves freely without being shadow-banned, censored, or banned. So, far these alternatives seem much better even though the masses aren't there yet. Will they likely change when the masses do get there and start censoring? Probably. As the bigger a platform gets, the more likely it is to be bought/taken over by these corrupt interests. Been like that for thousands of years and ain't gonna change. But for now, in our fast-moving society, it's the best we've got. And if you can suggest some better alternatives, I'm all ears.
Respect. Cheers my friend.
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Does Parler work on laptops? I was trying to do Parler. Maybe I will try again.
Who owns Parler?
Why do they require your phone number in order to use most features?
That also worries me. I did want to sign up, but refuse to give my personal phone number to any platform. So, I will not sign up. Each person has their own level of what personal info they are willing to give up. I guess a lot of us here are more cautious, as we should be.
You are wise! You probably remember the internet of 2000, when you could sign up for a website without a phone number. Hell, you didn't even need an email address. Just a username and password, which you provided upon logging in. Why would your real life persona need to be "verified" in order to read things, rate posts, watch videos, make posts and comments? Yet now it's all about proving you are who you say you are, and about using real first and last names. I remember in 2010 or so when YT began getting shitty. 2012 or so was shadowbanning, and also the start of the "tell us who you are" nonsense, which led to Google+ and the loss of comments unless you had it, and then the removal of Google+ because nobody used or liked it and just had it to make YT comments. Then the 2018 admission of shadowbanning, and the deplatforming of anyone not towing the line. Nightmare.
Easy. Control my friend. That is what they always want. Just like in China.
I've emailed to support at parler.com and asked them to justify why they need the phone number for sign-up. I also mentioned that this requirement is holding back a lot of potential users from entering their platform. In addition, I told them that many are holding back not just because of privacy, but also safety; since they cannot 100% guarantee they won't be hacked (and hence their users personal phone numbers) then this pretty much amounts to an absurd requirement. Lastly, if they tell me that phone is required for 'authentication' then I call BS on this, as it can be done adequately via email (this is only a platform for posting info/comments, after all). Perhaps, arguably, only 2-factor authentication should be required with phone such as banking/brokerage/crypto - in that case I think it is "justifiable" - otherwise, not so.
Yes, they require a phone verification via text when creating an account but no, you don't need a phone to use Parler. I forgot I made a Parler account in 2019. I must have forgotten my password or who knows. But I reset my password, did a phone verification, and was able to get back into my Parler account a second ago. So, I guess I was able to answer my own question regarding Parler. Who owns Parler? I don't know.
Okay, so you're aware of the lack of privacy. Myself, I don't bother with platforms that blatantly destroy my privacy like it's some sort of safety feature. It would have to do some pretty amazing things to make me want to verify a phone number. I'm curious... what can it do that other platforms like Flote can't?
Yeah. Agreed. I prefer Flote, Gab, Hive.
I'm like you on this. Not gonna share my phone #. The smartphone is the #1 spying device use by gov't & the technocratic elite, bar none.
Yeah. A big Trojan Horse like Windows and Apple.
Good question. I'd also like to know why they require the phone number. If they say it is for 'authentication' purposes, then email authentication/verification can do just fine. For this reason, I haven't signed up. Wish their team would consider removing this obligation for sign-up.
Technically speaking, you can buy a burner phone, a pay per minute SIM card with an unlocked phone that can take 2 more SIM cards simultaneously plus the ability to remove the battery and SD cards on top of that. A phone is simply a computer. So, have multiple phones. Do verification on one phone and do the talking and the texting on your other phone. Keep one of your phones at home at all times.
Email and phone is the same in many ways. There are phone apps that let you talk to people for free when you have WIFI. You can also get pay per minute SIM cards that can be removed and taken out of the phone. Don't get the phones that lock the SIM cards and the batteries inside. They still have phones out there that let you take the cards and the batteries out of your phone freely. Also, people should root their phones to remove the Android or Apple operating systems (OS) and replace the OS with Linux, with Ubuntu, with something that could be better in some ways.
A bit more on the point of the decline in our education systems:
Just came across a wonderful video by a mom who explains why critical thinking skills are not taught in schools.
Schools Don't Teach Critical Thinking. Here's Why.
Bright mom!