Why you’ll soon have no choice but to have your own online platform
Published: Wed, 10/02/19
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Hey Ben,
I was watching one of your videos the other day and you mentioned the importance of owning your own platform - well it came at a relevant time for me.
I'd recently just found this Youtube Channel called Special Books for Special Kids.
Basically, it's this guy who goes around and interviews people with some sort of disability or illness. The overall message is to be kind to each other, accept each other and so on. Really wholesome stuff.
But I noticed that the comments were disabled on all of their videos. I thought, "well that makes sense, they don't want people in the comments bullying the people they interview."
Well I look back on their channel and there's a video they did that was about how Youtube disabled their comments on pretty much all of their videos because they were "high-risk."
It was really sad because they explained they had an entire community that would thrive in the comment section, and it was super positive pretty much all the time. Some of the parents of the children who had passed, for example, would go to the comment section and read it for inspiration.
But bloop... all gone now.
It's relevant for people right of center (what even is "center" in politics these days?) to own their own platforms... but the same applies to everyone. I mean this channel has to be one of the most positive and uplifting on Youtube, and it can still get whacked.
So thank you for always spreading the good word, that people shouldn't be dependant on someone else's platform.
P.S - Big tec is really insidious in a lot of ways. I can't blame you for killing your social media accounts.
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As Braeden showed, it now goes way beyond politics and thought policing.
No business is safe relying on any big tech platform, if you don't like being censored or de-platformed.
And this is especially true if you rely exclusively on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, Apple, etc. I will admit, though, it's quite entertaining to watch the de-platforming starting to happen to certain people who cheered it on and even participated in it happening to others.
Whatever the case:
This is one reason not to rely on big tech.
And, also, one reason why I recently invested heavily in an online checkout platform.
I talked about it in yesterday’s email.
And if this interests you, and if you take 3-seconds to answer a question about the cart/checkout platform you use now (especially if you are a subscription-based business)… we can better “custom fit” it to you:
http://www.EmailPlayers.com/simplepay
Tomorrow?
Something completely different…
Ben Settle