Been boycotting <FakeBook> for about 6 yrs. Ditto Google. Encourage everyone reading this to do likewise AWA encourage friends and relatives who're willing to listen. Now is the time!
Like their allies in the MSM, anti-American leftist tech monopolies are something we need about as cancer. Also, like the MSM, we all know there're better alternatives on the web than these companies.
Electing Donald Trump was not enough. It was only the first major battle of a much longer political war. Next comes clearing the road blocks to governance of the poisonous left leaning MSM and info tech companies. We CAN make a difference by voting with our feet and boycotting these companies. If the new admin. files anti-trust action against them? All the better. But, in the meantime, each of us can do our part to weaken the enemy.
More evidence of why this is so important in the extended article excerpt below.
Isopatch
<By Selwyn Duke, contributor
12/27/16 12:40 PM EST
<....it’s time to break up the Internet’s left-wing, information-conduit oligopoly. If “knowledge is power” and “The pen is mightier than the sword,” entities controlling what pens you see are powerful indeed. C that Facebook and Google “account for 75% of all the referrals major news and entertainment sites now receive,” according to a Politico report in July.
Facebook boasts a 40 percent share of the social media market and 1.5 billion users worldwide, making this Internet “nation” more populous than any country on Earth. Upwards of 40 percent of American adults get news from the site.Google accounts for 64 percent of all U.S. desktop search queries. In Europe, the figure is a whopping 90 percent. The company also owns YouTube, the world’s most popular video-sharing website.
How is this power used? Earlier this year, ex-Facebook employees admitted they routinely suppressed conservative news and were ordered to place relatively unpopular but company-favored (read: liberal) stories in their “trending” news section. And trending means mind-bending because people are influenced by what’s “popular.” Make an article appear more or less so and you can cause some readers to embrace it as “consensus” or dismiss it as a fringe view. It snowballs, too: prominent placement makes a piece more popular, which makes it more prominent, which makes it yet more popular, which makes…well, you get the idea.
Now the social-media site — dubbed “Fakebook” by many — states it will label and essentially bury “fake news,” using as fact-checkers liberal outlets such as Snopes.com, Politifact and ABC, which themselves have peddled falsehoods (see here, here and here).
And Google? In its June piece “The New Censorship,” U.S. News and World Report lists nine blacklists Google maintains. The site asks, “How did Google become the internet’s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites?” Moreover, the search giant announced last year that it was considering ranking sites not just based on popularity (which reflects the market), but on “truthfulness” — as determined, of course, by Google’s Democrat-donating techies.>
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