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Columbus Day, School Choice, Internet Trolls, and Colorado’s 8th Congressional District
I recently engaged an attack ad on Facebook against the Republican candidate for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, and her ‘extreme’ support for a nationwide ban on abortion.More
Truth Stranger Than Science Fiction
It occurs to me the more I consider this that the truth in our day is much like the plot of a dystopian piece of science fiction. How else do you explain the double-speak and double-think? More
Book Review: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by Shoshana Zuboff
For us to not know the situation with Big Tech and yet uncritically participate in the grand social surveillance and engineering experiment would be a disaster.More
Why I Got Back on Facebook After Deleting My Account in 2020
Both the fact that I left and the fact that I returned bother me. In an effort to sort through why, this episode is dedicated to unpacking the whole messy situation as I see it.More
Whether The Metaverse Is Going to Be a Good Thing
The comments are turned off, and YouTube won’t let us see how many likes and dislikes Meta’s video viewed 3.3 million times thus far has. This gets right at my whole concern here.More
Clarence Thomas Speaks on Social Media Censorship
Ian Haworth writes for The Daily Wire, “Clarence Thomas Appears To Endorse Outlawing Social Media’s Censorship Of Conservatives: Everything You Need To Know.” Should Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter be regulated as common carriers like Verizon and Comcast and your power company are? It behooves us to consider the need for humility in how we…More
The Death of Social Media As We Know It
Someone I am close to recently deleted their Facebook; and despite having recently started an account on MeWe, it would appear they deleted that account also. This is not an isolated incident, though. Conservative Americans now feel entirely alien and unwelcome online. Years of being maligned, manipulated, and censored on the biggest platforms have suddenly…More
Buckle Up For Big Tech Censorship
Buckle up, friends. It’s about to get bumpy. Twitter and Facebook last week permanently banned President Trump from their platforms on the claim he incited protesters to violently assault the Capitol building last week during a joint-session of Congress. Google and Apple have both made moves to remove the free speech social media network Parler…More
Ctrl Alt Delete Facebook
I deleted my Facebook account this morning. They asked me “Are you sure?” “Are you really, really sure?” When I answered in the affirmative each time, finally I got the response: “It’s scheduled for deletion in 30-days.” I have been a very active Facebook user since 2006 – in other words, for all my adult…More