Your humble author, who posts to Reddit many insightful, informative, and otherwise interesting articles seen the News of the Week, was given a rule violation for “Promoting Hate” against “marginalized or vulnerable groups of people”.
And just what was this horrendous hate that Reddit found to be beyond the pale? It was an article by Walt Heyer, a former “trans-woman” who “de-transitioned”, who warns of the dishonesty from the advocates of transgendering children and singles out the Marxist derived framework of the transgender movement.
That’s it. The very idea that someone who went through a transgener phase wanting to spare others from the same fate is “hate” so degrades the meaning of the word that the accusation ends up meaning nothing more than “I disagree with you”. There was no promotion of any “hate” not one iota of marginalization or incitement of violence or hate against people who are transgender, but simply a strong criticism of an ideology.
This isn’t the first time your humble author has faced a warning, or even suspension, for absolutely ridiculous reason which seem nothing more than a pretext for harassment and silencing that at best is arbitrary and capricious and at worst intentional targeting of expressions of thoughtcrime.
But this sudden expulsion of any criticism or disagreement with transgender ideology by the digital gatekeepers of online speech is not limited to Reddit. It would seem that many of the dominant propitiatory social media platforms, such as Facebook, are all suddenly marching in lockstep—either by outright oligarchic agreement or by silent and mutual assent to an intellectual conformity.
The major reason why these Left-wing social media platforms have so much power is because people gave them that power. Hosting videos, developing a websites, and the cost of streaming have made the “free” social media platforms so attractive that people have become dependent on them… and then complain about the consequences of that dependency. And this isn’t just about the “normies” or “casuals” either: How many people make a living off of YouTube videos, or otherwise use the “free” services to connect with other people, don’t even have their own webpage that they can control free from the social media platforms, even if that websites just lists contact info and links to alternate platforms?
There are alternatives to the major social media overlords but these alternatives do not serve as replacements for the major social media platforms because they do not have a wide enough usage that “casuals” and “normies” automatically use them. People who eschew the major social media platforms end up self-ghettoizing, which actually helps the Left increase their dominance and control of the gateways of speech that the vast majority of people use.
