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| Conservative Principles Do Not Require Us To Roll Over For Big Tech |
| 2019-06-13 |
| We are never going to sell people on allegedly conservative principles that end up making conservatives less free. After all, when we sell conservatism, we are selling freedom, in contrast to the perpetual soul-killing tyranny offered by leftist ideology. So, the idea that conservative principles require us to defer to the growing oppression of the left because it is delivered through the medium of allegedly private corporations is nonsense. Don’t want none? Don’t start none. That’s one of my conservative principles. The corporations started it, and now it’s our right ‐ our duty ‐ to finish it. The fussy Bow Tie Boyz of conservatism will tell you that this calls your conservative bona fides into question. Well, question away. If "conservatism" means I have to take guff from some goateed 20-something helming a unicorn start-up who thinks I have way too many rights and way too much privilege because my ancestors came from Stuttgart and I wield a penis, count me out of conservatism. I am utterly indifferent to whether the aspiring dictator who seeks to force me to obey is a government employee or a corporate CEO. Neither is acceptable, meaning I will not accept either. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 It's also worth mentioning that the left self censors big time. Caught any big name tech bloggers admitting they always knew their good buddy "Dr. Pizza" was a paedo? No, of course you didn't cause they are clammed up completely about it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-06-13 13:08 |
| #1 Everything "big tech" controls only started to exist recently. People somehow managed before the telegraph. Even after it arrived it was scarce in terms of deployment. Same for telephone, radio and TV. Watch some individual (usually a woman of any age except really old) clinging to a cellphone. How did this individual manage to exist before the cellphone? Somehow, we know, or they wouldn't be there right now yapping away. Just because this stuff became widespread in very short order doesn't mean it's any different from the tech advances mentioned above that rolled out more slowly. Whatever comes next will roll out so fast the current tech barons won't even have time to figure out which way to run. Meanwhile, the notion you are cut off if you can't be on farcebook, gurgle, crapple or sh*tter is a notion in your head alone. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-06-13 12:37 |