
YouTube kicked off Stefan Molyneux last week. Yikes this de-platforming is bad. So it is important to start patronizing other video services.
Vimeo is, alas, no better. It also de-platforms in lockstep with the others.
But BitChute and Brighteon both work pretty well. Please go to both services and set up accounts and start watching videos. The LocoFoco Netcast is now on both, with the latest episodes being up:
We of the Bibliobibuli (LocoFoco #17)
We of the Bibliobibuli (Books in Our Private Libraries)
Dratit, but, alas, WordPress does not “embed” these videos with its Embed tool. The LocoFoco channel on BitChute is bitchute.com/locofoco/ and my channel on Brighteon is brighteon.com/channels/wirkman.
Please click on over and watch as much as you can on these platforms. Molyneux is there; so is Alex Jones; and so is Styxhexenhammer666.
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Hello tvw:
I’m a libertarian who is in favor of the “deplatforming” shockeroo. To a limited extent, of course.
In short, I believe that companies that operate in the pseudo-free-market have the right (a natural right, IMHO) because of the fundamental principle of free association. It is no different a situation to hear about a white bus driver ordering, insultingly, a black or mixed race communist to go to her place on the back and shut up, than to see Google telling Molyneux (who belongs to the wrong race to be a podcaster anyway: Canadian) to get off and shut up. Also, Molyneux is a bit of a greedy person, just like any other commie, just like Google itself, and the greedists tend to daydream about exterminating the competition, so it was not a surprise for me.
To be clear, I am against the unnecessary insults and general disdain, since one can always disassociate politely. But no one should be forced to work, share, buy, sell, lend, borrow, be idle or to be a conscription slave of any kind of army. People should be required to give a good written reason to go enter in the military, not to decline the invitation.
But. I also believe in some positive obligations. Namely, that a company which allows free (TANSTAAFL all the way down) use of their toys/resources must honor the memory of Franz Kafka and give clear reasons for the expulsion of their “informal” workers. By way of example, Youtube/Google/Alphabet could have argue, publicly, that Molyneux defended opinions on IQ that they disavow. Which is a fine reason to dismiss a creator/slave, in my book. Truth is essentially not important for association of disassociation. Also I think they must give back to the deplatformee all his stuff. That would be just.
As for Molyneux’ economies post censorship (not really censorship, but I’ll play along i you want), he will probably not suffer much, for the obvious reason that, unlike many other idiots who have been deplatformed earlier, he already had set up the grifting infrastructure of his show. If Moly was Smaug, his mountains of coins would still be growing even as he slumber’d. No self-respecting libertarian is against smauging.
Also, the deplatformers should explain the bereaved spectators where to keep watching the departed. They owe that to the Sovereing People.
Adversely, Paypal, the banks, credit card companies and any company that does “payment processing” ought not to be allowed to censor a person who sells his wit for cash to consenting adults, as much retarded as they might be. That would be inconceivable in a just world. But we live in a global-happy-face-Fascism that wants to save us all from nothing in particular. So they would probably kick him out from there too, and call it just. Absolute bummer!
Was it Karl Hess the one who was banned from using USD and had to live the remainder of his life with a little help of his friends? A blessed man, in so many ways. Unlike some “victims” of deplatforming.
For example, WordPress might ban this comment because I am somewhat speaking ill about a holy cow of the communist religion. Which would send me straight into the depths of despair… Not really. I am actually a believer, and practitioner of, Stoic principles. It is in the nature of the internet to be dismissive of a dissenting opinion. Not in my power to change that.
Great podcast, by the way. You have good taste in the production department, which is rare in podcasting. I also like the explanatory interjects. Plus the vocabulary showing off. This is a pearl of great subjective price.