ELON, YEEZY, TRUTH SOCIAL, OH MY!

A trio of stories this week highlighted the trend of censored Americans becoming increasingly proactive in fighting for social media platform access.

Elon Musk re-committed his intentions to buy Twitter, a leading social messaging platform that infamously censored then-President Donald Trump during the 2020 election campaign.

Truth Social, meanwhile, a Trump backed alternate social media platform, which recently was approved for inclusion in the Google Play store, shot to number one as the most downloaded app on android phones and devices.

And just yesterday, rapper and social icon Kanye West—who now simply wants to be known as Ye—struck back at being banned from Twitter and Instagram by announcing a deal to purchase the Parler alternative social media platform.

“In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” says Ye.

Ye’s social media ban followed comments he made that were termed anti-semitic by mainstream media and commentators.

One of Ye’s comments, according to ABC11.com, read:

“The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

Legacy media outlets reacted with predictable pearl-clutching headlines regarding Ye’s Parler media play:

“Kanye West Is Buying Right-Wing Social Media Platform Parler”—Forbes

“Kanye West Will Acquire Parler, the Right-Wing Social Media Platform”—Observer

“Ye to Buy Controversial Social Networking App Parler”—Bloomberg

“Kanye West Buys MAGA Cesspit Parler After Getting Kicked Off Instagram and Twitter”—The Daily Beast

Bans Fostering Alternative Ecosystem

The Parler platform itself was taken offline following the January 6 Washington protests over election fraud, meddling and manipulation that MSM and tech companies actively abetted.

It was delisted from app stores, and its services, which relied on Amazon cloud, were suspended.

The Trends Journal has detailed those manipulations in many articles, including:

• “ZUCKERBERG BOUGHT 2020 ELECTION WITH HALF A BILLION” (19 Oct 2021)
• “FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS UNDER ATTACK AS ONLINE CENSORSHIP INCREASES” (27 Oct 2020)
• “NAILED: THE GROWING ANIMUS AMERICANS FEEL TOWARD UNCONSTITUTIONAL ABUSES” (13 Jul 2021)
• “INSURRECTIONISTS FAKE, COLLABORATIONISTS REAL” (11 Jan 2022)
• “‘HERD’ MEDIA FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGES PART OF HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY” (22 Mar 2022)

Censorship, shadow banning, outright bans and demonetization of mostly conservative and liberty-minded viewpoints on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere, accelerated in 2020.

The actions of tech corporations, sometimes colluding with government partisans, constituted illegal election meddling, and a form of in-kind contributions to the Democrat Party, many believe. 

Those platforms receive special protections in federal law (so-called section 230) that shield them, as supposedly neutral information conduits, from legal liability regarding posted third party content.

The Trends Journal has predicted and chronicled the growing movement of political dissidents to establish more resilient communications, social networking and other services, in the face of tech company and corporate censorship.

For more on that, see:

• “THERE IS A WAY TO “VOTE TWICE” LEGALLY—JUST UTILIZE 2ND VOTE” “13 Sep 2022)
• “WAKING UP TO FREEDOM-MINDED BUSINESSES” (5 Jul 2022)
• “CENSORSHIP RESISTANT TECHNOLOGIES BLOCKCHAIN OFFERS RIGHT NOW” (2 Aug 2022)
• “RUMBLE VIDEO PLATFORM GETS SOCIAL WITH LOCALS BUY” (26 Oct 2021)
• “GAB ADS WILL OFFER ALTERNATIVE TO GOOGLE ADSENSE” (10 Aug 2021)
• “GAINING FREEDOM FROM THE TECHNOCRACY” (20 Jul 2021)
• “ARE AMERICANS HEADING TOWARD A SILENT SECESSION?” 4 May 2021)