I came here because I don't want to be told what to think. I believe this is the most evil year the world has ever seen and I think the most important thing right now to the common man/woman is freedom of speech. don't like 4chans format so here I am.

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[–]magnora7 19 insightful - 3 fun19 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Not even just communist, but authoritarian technocrats.

There's all shades of authoritarians pushing their censorship. If you want to see right-wing authoritarian censorship, go to thedonald.win and post something like "Zionists control this website" or a factual negative thing about Trump, and watch it disappear.

The left-backed censorship is just more obvious because they have control of more major websites, like reddit. But sites like thedonald.win and voat show that the right is doing the same thing if given the chance.

So I think it's really an authoritarian vs anti-authoritarian thing, more than a right vs left thing.

It's like this political cartoon: https://grrrgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/march_of_tyranny1.jpg

[–]PresentableSonInLaw 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Might wanna look at it from a technology perspective. Digital technology generally leads to centralization and monopolization, which are naturally authoritarian. The remedy being the balkanization of the internet, what I expect to see in the coming years.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Digital technology generally leads to centralization and monopolization

no it doesn't. patent trolls through 2000-2010 is what caused that

[–]PresentableSonInLaw 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It does, due to cheap scalability and distribution, general uniqueness of digital products, and sustainable competitive advantage of being the market leader, most digital markets will end up as a monopoly/oligopoly. This is in contrast with manufacturing and services industries.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

no