Big Tech is suppressing speech by Christian and conservative bloggers. What to do?
Unite! Come together in mutal support. See, I’ve already started it.
If they thought they’d get away with just banning us all outright, they would’ve done it by now. That hesitation points to an achilles heel somewhere. They may be huge, wealthy, and powerful; but they are not invulnerable.
We can do this together! And what are we waiting for?
I’m sure I’m not the only Christian blogger who’s seen his viewer numbers take a nosedive recently. I’m convinced there are Big Tech bad guys out there trying to silence us–trying to silence all opinions but their own, because that’s what the Left does.
Well, it’s time we helped each other!
I’m going to find other Christian bloggers and share their posts on my page, so that more readers will see them. Imagine if every post you put up were to appear on five other blogs. Now we’re getting somewhere.
I chose that picture of the Old North Church in Boston, with the statue of Paul Revere, on purpose. Our independence is again at risk, with the threat seeping out from Silicon Valley. Today’s redcoats work for Google et al.
No, we do not want to be governed by “experts” and elites! We ought to be governed by the Word of God, and by just laws passed by our elected representatives after due debate in public–not by one “mandate” after another.
Christian bloggers, rally to each other! We’re all in the same boat now.
I’m starting to wonder if maybe I’d be just as well off stuffing a message into a bottle and throwing it into the sea.
My blog is in a state of demise and I don’t know why. I strongly suspect Google is stifling me. Here are the clues. I don’t know how to add them up, but maybe one of you do.
*For ten years I picked up a few new followers a week, every week. Since May 11, zero new followers.
*Ten years of solid growth in readership. 2020 was our best year ever. But in 2021, viewership is shrinking. Shrinking fast.
*Facebook used to censor many of my posts. Now they’re ignoring them. Have the Big Tech oligarchs found a new way to silence conservatives? A way that works better than outright banning our posts? Just make ’em really hard to find.
*Viewer numbers for individual posts are way now. In a typical day, until just recently, at least one and often two posts received 20 or more views each. Now no post gets 20 views.
*I am doing nothing differently from what I did for ten straight years.
Robert Stack, where are you when I need you?
As I mentioned yesterday, throughout the ten-year history of this blog, we regularly picked up a few new followers every week. That’s how we got to 1,700 of them.
But we have added NO new followers since May 11.
Yesterday I asked for readers to try to follow this blog. Just click the “Following” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. The results:
Zero new followers.
Zero comments from anyone who tried to do it and it didn’t work.
Zero comments from readers who tried it and were told it worked, without any sign of it happening on this end.
And of course the viewership numbers are way below what they used to be. It’s very, very frustrating.
I’m convinced Big Tech is messing with us to cut conservatives off from one another, to silence us without resorting to out-and-out banning, because that might be a step too far and might force Congress to take action. Probably the only thing to do would be to somehow get this blog onto one of the new platforms that isn’t owned by the Far Left fascists at Google.
Please, somebody, let me know–have you tried to follow this blog, and weren’t able to do it? What happened when you tried?
Throughout the ten-year history of this blog, we’ve picked up a couple of new followers every week. That’s how we wound up with 1,700 of them.
But in the past several weeks, no new followers at all. Not even one.
What happens if you try to follow me? Do they tell you they’ve made the connection for you–only it doesn’t show up at my end? Is Big Tech trying to cut off our communication with each other? Go ahead, tell me that would astonish you.
It’s like we just woke up in North Korea.
I wish a few of you would help me in an experiment. Just click whatever you need to click to follow this blog, and let’s see what happens. And please tell me if you’ve tried. If I hear from five new followers, but my follower stats remain totally unchanged, I’ll know something’s fishy.
Note: There is a “Following” button in the lower right-hand corner of this page.
I don’t think they’re letting us follow each other’s blogs.
Let’s try to find out.
And if prison doesn’t work, throw ’em to the gators!
Florida has become the first state to give citizens the right to sue Big Tech for up to $100,000 in damages if they are deplatformed, censored, or banned (https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/24/desantis-signs-law-to-curb-big-tech-censorship-and-punish-partisan-deplatforming/).
(Calloo, callay, oh frabjous day!)
The new law also allows Florida’s attorney general to prosecute Big Tech companies for antitrust violations.
And finally, it prohibits the tech giants from removing any Florida politician from any of the social media platforms. You know–like the way Twitter banned President Trump.
Florida decided not to wait for Congress to take action. That was a wise decision.
We hope plenty of other states do the same.
And if the fines aren’t big enough to hurt… well, there’s always prison.
(Hmm… First thing that’s gone wrong: this was supposed to be an animated jack-in-the-box. Oh, fap…)
My experiments with soft censorship continue. Yesterday’s experiment produced little in the way of understandable results, although it did yield some results that no one understands.
As a Christian conservative blogger, The Masters Of The Universe have stuffed me way down the ladder of the search engines; so I’m trying to find a way to climb back up. Will popular words and/or phrases do it–like “simple trick,” “paranormal,” or “romance”? Or some combination thereof? I’m starting to feel like an alchemist: what arcane ingredients should go into the elixir?
See, they don’t want to ban us outright, lest it put their friends in Congress in a ticklish position. So they play with the search engines and cut our traffic down to a trickle. “Hey, we can’t help it if nobody’s reading these people! Who wants to read deplorables?” And all the noozies said, “Amen.”
As for that paranormal romance, alluded to in the headline–well, that’s part of the experiment. If you really do want to find paranormal romance, you’re in the wrong part of New Jersey.
Never mind the headline. It’s an experiment.
Google owns 90% of search engine capacity, worldwide. Google doesn’t like conservatives. But if they were to ban us all outright, that might force even our flaccid, bought-off Congress to take action. Much better, and just as effective, to play with the search engines and make our content hard to find.
Ah! But you can buy an SEO plan –“Search Engine Optimization “–that’ll defeat those pesky Google algorithms and move your content much higher up the ladder. More people will see it and you’ll have more viewers.
Thing is: this SEO thing is expensive, a lot of different companies are selling it, there’s no quality control, and no guarantee you’ll get any value for your money. To me it sounds like paying a literary agent up front. Not advisable.
We are told Google doesn’t sell SEO. Well, that would be a grave conflict of interest, wouldn’t it? But how far do we want to trust any of these people?
They crashed my viewership in January and since then I have been well and truly scrod. What can I do about it? Hint: nothing.
I will let you know the results of the experiment if there ever are any.
Meanwhile, on to Byron’s TV listings…
On our way to 75,000 comments, we have 1,200 left to go and it’s taking forever.
This is because somebody out there in Google-land played with the search engines and stripped this blog of more than 100 views a day. That’s 3,000 a month… lost.
G’day (or not!), Byron the Quokka here, exhorting you to pepper us with comments. I’d exhort you to visit this blog, only if you’re here already, the message is wasted, and if you’re not here, you won’t see it.
So far today, only three comments.
What do you get for posting Comment No. 75,000? I’d like to say, “Your face on Mount Rushmore,” but I’m not sure I can back it up. But you will get a cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.” Or an autographed book. Your choice.
So hard to attract new readers when they stuff you down to the bottom of the search engines’ barrel! A lot of Christian and conservative bloggers have been hit with this.
Comments, please? Hello, hello?
Your Christian and conservative bloggers and social media voices–including, if I may say so, me–need your support against Big Tech’s censorship. They’re trying to silence us. They don’t want to be too blatant about it, for fear of forcing Congress to rein them in, so they gradually chop us down–mostly by playing with the search engines (which they are now doing to Christians in China). Just make our blogs and comments harder to find, and fewer people will be viewing them.
So please subscribe, please follow! Speaking for myself, it’s free. Share our posts on your own social media pages. Maybe we can ease up once new, independent, free-speech-friendly platforms are on a firm footing, but we’re not there yet.
The more views you give us, the less Google likes it. You may even hurt their feelings! How cool is that?
We are little, they are big. But there are a lot of us–and remember what happened to that giant, Talos, in Jason and the Argonauts.
