But these tech companies are now heavily censoring the services we use to make sense of our world.
Do you think it's okay for tech companies to censor what you can say or what you can see?
In the case of PragerU being censored, of course I can't deny that I am personally happy that YouTube is doing something about their inflammatory hate speech, but that is just my opinion. Perhaps next time they decide that something that I personally agree with should be banned from the platform. How will I react then?
The major difference between Youtube and taking it to the streets is that the latter is protected by the law and provides a clear legal recourse if your right to express your opinion is denied. If private corporations now change how we take our opinion "to the streets", then the inevitable consequence will be that we're going to be censored one way or another. So to change all of this, perhaps we could
1) turn platforms such as YouTube owned by private corporations into public forums, 2) embrace a more federalized/decentralized web (web 1.0 self-host-style), where we put out our opinions on our own domains that we can call our own, 3) go out on the streets (difficult because covid-19)
The fact that people tend to flock around opinions and communities will never change, but what we might consider changing is how these communities (Facebook, YouTube, etc.) are organized.
Bullshit. People need to stop treating facebook and others as if they’re impossible to compete against. Dream big and build it.
Will it be hard? You bet. Impossible? Nope. And I certainly agree with you, censorship is the new norm. That also creates opportunities for others.
They aren’t just a business - those that censor are absolutely the enemy of the people.