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"Big Tech has no obligation to give you a platform. If they kicked you out, go build your own!"

Builds own...

"NOoooOOO!!!!!11! You must be shut down and silenced, heretic!"

This is why you don't run from commies. You must stand and fight, or they will eventually corner you.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-pandemic-censorship?source=patrick.net

The Folly of Pandemic Censorship
As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works
Matt Taibbi

Censors have a fantasy that if they get rid of all the Berensons and Mercolas and Malones, and rein in people like Joe Rogan, that all the holdouts will suddenly rush to get vaccinated. The opposite is true. If you wipe out critics, people will immediately default to higher levels of suspicion. They will now be sure there’s something wrong with the vaccine. If you want to convince audiences, you have to allow everyone to talk, even the ones you disagree with. You have to make a better case. The Substack people, thank God, still get this, but the censor’s disease of thinking there are shortcuts to trust is spreading. ...

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/contingency-plans

I don’t think Substack will give in to the hate brigade anytime soon. Their business model depends on subscribers, and a great deal of censorship is driven by advertisers. Also, Chelsea Clinton retweets aside, they’re not exactly sending their best.

Nevertheless, I’ve gotten a lot of advice, and I wanted to send a brief update about contingency plans. I’ve registered the domain eugyppius.com. Right now, https://www.eugyppius.com/?source=patrick.net points to my Substack, but if anything happens to my presence here, that same URL will take you to my new home instead. I want to stay at Substack as long as they’ll have me, because there’s a good community of like-minded people on this website, and it’s here that most of you found me. If I do get kicked, though, I own (and regularly export) my entire subscriber list. It’s a simple matter to take that to an alternative platform like Ghost, and everything will continue as before. For most of you it will be seamless, except the emails and the website will be formatted a little differently. If things get even darker, I can arrange my own hosting and run my own website, and I’m in touch with smart people who have other ideas too. I will never stop posting.

Jack Winogrodzki8 hr agoLiked by eugyppius
That we are even having this conversation in a Western democracy shows just how low things have got in the last two years.

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Danielle Celani7 hr ago
I just said the same thing to my 16 year old. She made the smart comment, “ They’ve been conditioning us for years, Mom. I’m not surprised. “ Heartbreakingly true…

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Martha7 hr ago
Your teenager is very wise!

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cathietheconservative6 hr ago
Wow! What a wise and rare 16 year old! Good job mom!

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HardeeHo6 hr ago
Refreshing. Good for her. Gives me hope the younger generation is aware of being manipulated.

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MagnospiraWrites My Bacteria ·7 hr ago
Love this answer! Very smart!!

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Michele6 hr ago
Great kid!

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Cherry Ames5 hr ago
She is an old soul.

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Pepperwood3 hr ago
No no, the kids get it. It’s elders who don’t. Zero teenagers are turning on CNN, ABC, going to the NYT or WaPo. The teens realize they are getting screwed. IME anyway

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I know the hate brigade all too well. I also will never stop posting. In fact, I am positively energized by each new threat.

Looks like Substack may be under attack by the oligarchy and their woke drones again:

I think Cloudflare had a hiccup that took down a lot of sites.

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/down-and-out-error-1016

Yesterday many of you Good Citizens noticed that Substack was down with an error page. Thanks to those of you who emailed me.

It was down for roughly 2.5 hours. It was the third Substack multiple-hour outage in the past month. This is getting silly now.

Normie: Substack needs to upgrade their servers or something.

Nerds: Substack’s bandwidth protocol is running an unoptimized version of Cloudflare synthesis that doesn’t boot load on concurrent command line switch wires.

Good Citizens: The CIA and Pentagon are really hitting Substack hard with the DDOS attacks lately.

Re: Substack's new Twitter-like "Notes" feature:

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/lexical-liberty-and-conceptual-freedom

It took one lousy week.

The usual suspects, wielding the usual arguments, started to demand that Substack censor its platform.

Someone had used a no-no word. There was hate. There were not-sees on the platform. People were doing racisms. They were committing sexisms. There had been misogynies. Maybe even misogynoirs.

Hate speech, you see, isn’t free speech, and freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. We all know what this means in practice: speech leftists hate must be silenced, so that leftists can be free to speak without being contradicted, so that only leftist talking points can reach people’s ears.

Besides which, Substack is a private company, you know. Muh Constitution doesn’t apply to them, chuds. They can censor whoever they like on their platform, so they should censor everyone leftists don’t like. Besides, it’s in their interests to do so. It’s a nice place you’ve got here, Substack, sure would be a shame if people started avoiding your platform because it turns into a nest of racist 4chan trolls. And didn’t you see what happened to Alex Jones?

Mafia tactics. ...

So, first, the cynical tactical libertarianism of ‘it isn’t censorship if the government isn’t doing it, because free speech is just a Constitutional thing’.

Leaving aside the obvious dishonesty of this argument (‘It’s only oppression if it’s the government’s boot stomping on your face’)....

Look. The foundation of freedom of speech isn’t the American Constitution. Glorious and inspired as the First Amendment is, it is not the origin but the recognition of something quite fundamental not only to human nature, but to reality itself. We are each of us free beings, endowed with our own perspectives on and thoughts about the world. ...

Wise men understood this a very long time ago. Only when everyone, no matter how pig-ignorant, rude, or unpleasant, is allowed to speak their piece, can society test the ideas that constitute its conceptual toolset, and via a process of continual refinement and correction keep those ideas in something approaching alignment with reality. ...

Then there’s violence. One of the arguments the left absolutely adores making is that unfettered free speech enables bad actors to gin up hate against defenseless minority groups. This is absurd. Just look around. Since the Great Shuttening of the Internet over the last several years, has society become less violent, or more? Now, unfettered speech doesn’t necessarily prevent violence ... but it doesn’t hurt. So long as people are talking, they aren’t sticking sharp objects in each other’s bellies. On the other hand, when one side uses its political power to silence the speech of the other side, the side doing the silencing feels increasingly emboldened to demonize its perceived enemies – outcast cockroach Tutsis! Racist white cismales! – while the side being silenced becomes increasingly desperate and embittered. The inevitable result is an escalation of violence, with one side emboldening itself into attacking its demonized enemies while the other feels like it has no option but to strike back. This is how civil disagreement spirals into civil war. ...

By anathematizing an ever-widening swath of the dictionary, the left has restricted the ability of people to clearly communicate their thoughts, leading to a public discourse that is ever more leaden and impenetrable, where it takes more syllables every day to say the same thing ... while many simply choose not to speak at all, for fear that today’s mandatory terminology may be taboo tomorrow.

The lexical lockdown has been a catastrophe for the human conversation. But it sure has increased the power of the left.

And make no mistake, that’s what all of this is about.

It isn’t about good manners, or being kind, or avoiding harm, or inclusivity, or any of the other warm fuzzies the left likes to wrap its word salad in.

It’s about power, and their desire for more of it.

Patrick says

Good Citizens: The CIA and Pentagon are really hitting Substack hard with the DDOS attacks lately.

If only people could understand that the government really does do this. It's better though, 10 years ago, nearly everybody would be saying this is "paranoia" and a "conspiracy theory". Not so much now.

Our government is attacking the 1st amendment of the Constitution. It's run by traitors and they are openly traitors.

Patrick says

Nowadays, telling the truth is called "hate". But it's not. It's just truth.

We're now at the point where Government Funded Media like the BBC, NPR, and CBC are having hissy fits at being labelled Government Funded Media like non-Western Government Funded Media is.

Looks like Substack is under attack again. None of the pages load, except sometimes you get a "504 Gateway Time-out", which means that the layer behind the web servers is down or under too much load to respond.

Patrick says

Looks like Substack is under attack again. None of the pages load, except sometimes you get a "504 Gateway Time-out", which means that the layer behind the web servers is down or under too much load to respond.

After the TikTok bill gets passed, the DoJ will 'determine' that Substack is foreign owned, then shut it down.

Same will happen to X.

Probably won't survive the courts...but when does that stop them?

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

Patrick says

Looks like Substack is under attack again. None of the pages load, except sometimes you get a "504 Gateway Time-out", which means that the layer behind the web servers is down or under too much load to respond.

After the TikTok bill gets passed, the DoJ will 'determine' that Substack is foreign owned, then shut it down.

Same will happen to X.

Probably won't survive the courts...but when does that stop them?

Yep, that's why I'm against the bill, we all know they won't care to explain