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HOW THE PRESIDENT CAN SAVE ONLINE FREE SPEECH
Exclusive: Rich Logis envisions a 'Trumpoogle' & 'Trumpbook' to compete with big tech
Politicians aren’t saviors or messiahs; yet devoutly secular worship of government – the belief that the State (capital S) is God – is inherent in the Democratic Party’s ideology and marketing.
At the risk of belying my adamant opposition to idolatry, I implore President Trump to save free speech on the internet.
The president has been busy keeping many of the promises he made as a candidate, so perhaps my request is unfair. I’m mindful, however, that he has similarly ambitious and entrepreneurial children, who are very active on social media.
Politics is sales, and here’s my pitch.
Americans are powerless
From Dennis Prager to the New York Post to Alex Jones, amongst others, we’ve watched the Big Tech Industrial Complex purge speech and rhetoric with which it disagrees.
It’s no small irony that the same tech companies, such as Google, that manipulated search data to help Hillary Clinton – she of the faux socialist resistance to the rich and powerful – comprise an absurdly rich and absurdly powerful Brahmin-like conglomerate of omnipotent tech demigods.
Think long and hard about this:
What, really, can we the American people do about shadowbanning?
Or sudden, abrupt removals of comments or posts?
Or popular videos that are placed on page 425 of search results; or, worse, are blocked from public viewings, due to creepily arbitrary “hate speech” standards?
Perhaps most disheartening is:
We don’t know what we don’t know, and now that the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s likely that the tech companies will never be able to restore trust in their impartiality and integrity –
much the same way many Americans will never again trust the DMIC: Democrat Media Industrial Complex.
People buy and decide based on perception, and the irreversible perception the Big Tech Industrial Complex has cultivated is a very un-American hostility toward conservative political beliefs.
Sure, conservatives and America First voters could cease use of tech and social media platforms – which, in a way, would be a win for Big Tech.
What about regulation, First Amendment lawsuits and antitrust litigation?
Do we really want the federal government anywhere near the internet?
How, exactly, would the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission keep up with the 24/7 flow of data and content created by billions of users?
Answer: they won’t, and Big Tech regulation would just be more ineffective Big Government – an information superhighway iteration of Cash for Clunkers.
Furthermore, is there really an antitrust or First Amendment case to be made?
When the federal government won its landmark antitrust suit against Microsoft in 1998, it won on the legal basis that Microsoft was stifling its competion.
Pray, tell: How do the current tactics of Big Tech stifle competition?
Prager, Jones and the New York Post all have their own websites; if someone searches Google for Prager or Jones or the New York Post, their sites will populate in Google’s results.
John Stossel, one of my favorite Fox personalities, remarked recently that tech companies likely have the constitutional right to kick whomever they want off their platforms and app markets.
Want to sue them?
Go right ahead; taking down, for example, Apple, the world’s first trillion-dollar-valued company, would be easy-breezy, wouldn’t it?
Though I’m not a bettin’ man, I suspect the same justices who sided with baker Jack Phillips would side with Big Tech.
Trump the tech icon?
So, if more government, lawyers and playing nice won’t work, what would?
This is where the president steps in. He and his family have made a vast fortune.
Providing a viable alternative to his tens of millions of unwavering supporters – in which users post, comment and upload free of the tyranny of Big Brother-ish uncertainty that no one will see their content due to manipulation of algorithms designed by foreign workers who can’t even vote in our elections – would make an Earth-quaking impact overnight.
Trump Valley. Trumpbook. Trumpitter. TrumpTube. Trumpinterest. Trumpagram.
He could create a new search engine, free of manipulation: Trumpoogle. Name me one Trump supporter you know who wouldn’t utilize the full suite of the Trump Valley platform.
You can’t.
(This is the part where Ben Shapiro and Sens. Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse lament the “echo chamber.”)
Sure, conservatives and America First voters could cease use of tech and social media platforms – which, in a way, would be a win for Big Tech.
What about regulation, First Amendment lawsuits and antitrust litigation?
Do we really want the federal government anywhere near the internet?
How, exactly, would the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission keep up with the 24/7 flow of data and content created by billions of users?
Answer: they won’t, and Big Tech regulation would just be more ineffective Big Government – an information superhighway iteration of Cash for Clunkers.
I have a two-reason theory as to why we’ve not seen a Trump-branded mode of online communication: first, the president and his family don’t know how to make the many moving parts synchronize (I do, but I won’t yet reveal; as The Joker said in “The Dark Knight,” if you’re good at something, never do it for free); second, he and his family don’t know how to monetize it.
Like everything else they touch, Democrats have destroyed speech on the internet, irrespective of its erudition or asininity. But there’s never been a better time to use technology to continue strengthening the America First political movement.
Mr. President, please consider all this.
It may sound impossible, but so was your electoral win.
At the 2016 Republican National Convention, your daughter Ivanka boldly stated that the election could make the impossible possible.
Send the Tessio Republicans, eager to betray us, as Sal Tessio did Michael Corleone, as well as the Democratic Party and their corporate sycophants, reeling further into their downward spiral. Channel your inner Sonny Corleone and take it personal, as many of your supporters have.
Big Tech and their Democratic sympathizers in Congress are on the ropes, and they know it. This is no time for rope-a-dope; rather, it’s a time to relentlessly attack, in the spirit of Gen. George Patton, whom you’re fond of quoting at your rallies and pressers. The opposition seeks to subvert our will and our Constitution by impeaching you.
The Democrats and Tessios thought our victory was just a fad and that we’d lose interest once the new-car smell waned; the Democrats, in particular, viewed the defeat of The Original But Now Second Chosen One as a bump in the road en route to owning the presidency, the courts and the internet forever.
Much to all their chagrins, what seemed guaranteed to fade away has moved in the opposite direction, steered by a fired-up and excited voting base.
Redefine what it means to be a Man of the People.
This, perhaps even more than any legislative achievement, will unequivocally ensconce your standing as a visionary and revolutionary president and American.
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