Free speech alternatives to twitter, youtube, and facebook is a lie. At least publically available services. Because all of these services are run and owned by private corporations with way too much power. A bit like a maniacal evil genius that controls the strings. USA have this amazing thing called free speech, you might have heard about it. Essentially american can freely slag the government without being prosecuted.
Meanwhile a service like youtube is free and makes their own rules whatever they are. They are terrible at consistency after all. Sure they are well within their power to do that, despite how inconvenient it is for everyone else. However these big technology companies have the power to eliminate any competitor, because they al use the same infrastructure and is beholdent to US rules and regulations. The other day parler got the boot, due to the recent kerfuffle in DC, after an influx of angry people. Gab had the same issue, but they managed to find a workable solution it seems.
My question is this though. Is there a way to host and run a service without hiding it on a private deep web service? Such as having a service run from a server in Uganda, or some such?
Is it possible to make a blockchain version of Twitter where there is no central server and service that can be killed by disgruntled censors? Gab apparently did this, after slagging of the concept for a while. They changed their tune when the big American tech companies gave them the axe. It seems a tad ironic that a service has to be hosred outside the land of the free, to avoid censorship.
The underlying question I have been pondering. Does excessive censorship actually work? Or does it just increase the problem in the first place, due to the inherent distrust garnered by hiding something.
In my personal experience, nothing makes a person more curious that what they are not privy to. Besides not does not fix the underlying problem, it simply hides it under the carpet. There is a reason the term skeletons in the closet exist as far as I know. Regardless this excessive censoring of speech due to political oppinions is what all despotic regimes does. From the third Reich, to Stalin.
Where am I getting with this ramble you might ask. To this I say, censorship of speech is bad, leads to dishonesty, and dissent.
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