All the purpose-built websites are missing the point. Don't get me wrong, it's great for us, but generationally this aint good. Live by private industry die by private industry I guess. Pretty disgusting. I wouldn't want them censoring gun-control propaganda either. As what has become a major media source I think the responsible thing would be to be as "open" as possible (obviously not showing human exploitation). They don't give a shit about that. Just another group of useful idiots who want to push an agenda.
Mike
There's a general arc for all these large social media platforms. When they are relatively small, they often have a hands-off approach to content. They generally only ban illegal content that would get the site shut down. Sometimes they ban porn, because they don't want the site to become a dedicated porn site which often happens. Initially the costs of running a small site are quite manageable. But as the site grows, they need to rely on an income source, which is almost always ad revenue. But ad revenue always leads to content crackdown. Big companies don't want to run their ads before controversial content. So eventually, every open forum site becomes disney land. Squeeky clean, non controversial family fun that advertisers throw money at. Twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. They all have become more content restricted as they have grown in order to protect their ad revenue.
Compare youtube to liveleak. Liveleak is basically a website for stuff not allowed on youtube. Their website is garbage though, likely due to lack of ad revenue. Most of their ads are the low grade internet spam. Toyota doesn't want to run an ad before a video of a cartel member chainsawing 3 guys heads off or before a video of a skinhead explaining why Hitler was right. They also don't want to run their ad before a video explaining how to make a zip gun from Home Depot supplies.
Youtube has been gradually exerting more control over content. This anti-gun content order does not exist in a vacuum. There's no money in running a public forum. They want to be Disneyland.
Websites that stick to their guns about being an "anything goes" forum often have trouble with funding. Places like 4chan and voat are constantly under threat of closing down shop because they can't pay the server bills. Video is much, much more expensive to host.
People on this thread are raving about this crackdown being some political coup or government censorship program, which is absurd. Social media sites are first and foremost businesses. A cabal of liberals headed by George Soros didn't pull the plug, some PR manager looking at a spreadsheet of ad revenues did.
