{"id":32613,"date":"2018-03-21T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32613"},"modified":"2018-03-21T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:08:19","slug":"why-i-disagree-with-the-strategy-of-exiting-facebook-twitter-and-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32613","title":{"rendered":"Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And\u00a0YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And\u00a0YouTube<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Earlier this month Ben Swann, an important voice for whom I have nothing but respect<\/a>, expressed a sentiment in one of his excellent Reality Check videos that I\u2019m seeing more and more in anti-establishment circles, and I happen to strongly disagree with it.<\/p>\n

In a presentation<\/a> titled \u201cInternet Purge of Dissenting Voices?\u201d on the recent increase in censorship of anti-establishment voices by large social media corporations, Swann said the following:<\/p>\n

The problem for any dissenting voice is that if you are using your voice on someone else\u2019s property, i.e., YouTube or Facebook, you will never have control of it. Which is why the next frontier must be decentralized platforms. Platforms like Dtube and Steemit, built on blockchain, will be future of how content, the good the bad and ugly, will be stored. And the efforts to silence dissenting voices, will actually be the undoing of YouTube and Facebook.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I disagree not with Swann\u2019s endorsement of decentralized platforms like Dtube and Steemit (which are both excellent and essential weapons in our revolution against the establishment oppression machine), but with Swann\u2019s assertion that the social media giants\u2019 censorship of dissenting voices will be their undoing. It will not.<\/p>\n

\u201c2017 was a strong year for Facebook, but it was also a hard one,\u201d said<\/a>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month. \u201cIn 2018, we\u2019re focused on making sure Facebook isn\u2019t just fun to use, but also good for people\u2019s well-being and for society. We\u2019re doing this by encouraging meaningful connections between people rather than passive consumption of content. Already last quarter, we made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people\u2019s time is well spent. In total, we made changes that reduced time spent on Facebook by roughly 50 million hours every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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