Mobile apps and the cancel culture of doom
Published: Wed, 08/05/20
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Hi Troy and Ben,
Would it be appropriate for me to educate the "infamous" doctors who had the press conference on covid about Learnistic? Would they risk Google or Apple wanting to silence them? They've already been through at least one website hosting company.
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I thought this a particularly good question.
Especially since now that Learnistic has an affiliate program - open only to paying members of Learnistic in good standing - enough people have asked about if it’s a “safe” platform for talking about views that go against the ever-changing big tech/media/government Narratives who are ready to ban, silence, and cancel people for the high crimes & misdemeanors of thinking the wrong thoughts.
Thus my answer:
Mobile apps are no more immune to these forces than any other Apple or Google owned platform.
If something would get you booted from YouTube, iTunes, or any other Apple/Google-owned platforms, there is a better than decent chance it’ll get booted off the Apple or Google Play store.
When it comes to a platform — any platform — always remember:
You do not “own” it.
I don’t care if it’s your Facebook account (owned by Facebook), your Gmail address (owned by Google), your website (owned by your hosting company), or your corporate entity (owned by the state).
It’s simply the world you live in.
The question is, can you export your data?
If yes, then you do at least own that.
And the data is where the real money is anyway.
Always remember:
If you can export it, you own it. If not, then you don’t. All of which is why it makes no sense whatsoever to pour all one’s time, energy, and knowledge into a platform you cannot export your data from, in my way of thinking.
With Learnistic, you can connect to your email platform and back your list up daily.
(I certainly do.)
To make matters even more murky:
Realize you are in a world where Platform A is starting to cancel people from something they do on Platform B, C, or D. Anger the Twitter mob, and you could very well get booted off PayPal or from Chase Bank, for example, as what I have heard happen to certain people. Although, the good news about this is, Patreon is very likely going to be severely crippled due to this sort of nonsense and maybe this will stop happening. But that is still ongoing and we shalt see.
Point is this:
Learnistic ain’t a license to say whatever you want.
Every platform has their own rules and speech policing.
And with mobile apps it ain’t no different.
If you want to take a free test drive of Learnistic, go here:
https://www.EmailPlayers.com/learnistic
Ben Settle