Over the past few years, Big Tech has become increasingly politicized, as evidenced by their denying access to their services for certain audiences, specifically right-wing (particularly the ever-dreaded alt-right) and other undesirable users and companies. There are countless examples of this, some recent and notable ones being the banning of Gavin McInnes, Laura Loomer, Tommy Robinson, Owen Benjamin from platforms such as YouTube and Twitter.
Many believe that Big Tech is stifling Internet speech in order to influence the public discourse and, purposely or not, possibly even influencing the composition of political offices and elections. It’s apparent that Big Tech has overwhelmingly chosen to align with the left. (As a telling example, note Eric Schmidt’s advisory position on Hillary Clinton’s presidential election campaign in 2016).
Companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord have denied certain users access to their platform based on their political affiliation and the expression thereof (even outside the realms of the platforms themselves), and the suspensions appear to only be accelerating.
While Twitter once used to frequently declare themselves a “free speech utility”, they are now actively censoring users in the name of preventing “hate speech”. In addition, Big Tech stifles any pushback to their diversity agenda; also internally within their businesses. A strong example of this is James Damore being fired by Google for his attempt at a debate on inclusion, discrimination and male/female characteristics, and was quickly disposed of on the grounds that he was spreading an “anti-diversity screed”.
While this presents a critical problem to a free and open Internet, it also presents an opportunity to rebuild the Internet economy for a more general, left-and-right inclusive market. There is an increasing demand for an escape from the big tech stranglehold and the markets for alternative platforms and solutions will only grow as the Big Tech censorship accelerates. In fact, there are already alt-tech offerings to be found across many sectors of the web:
▸ Web browsers: Brave
▸ Video sharing: Bitchute, d.tube
▸ Social Networking: minds.com, gab.com, steemit.com
▸ Search Engines: duckduckgo.com
True Alt-Tech is truly inclusionary and does not concern itself with ideology or political agendas, nor does it have its own agenda to control speech or ‘protect’ the Internet population from information of any kind. Alt-Tech is built on the concepts of accountability, responsibility and privacy and represents a return towards the values and traditions which the Internet was founded upon.