Why you’ll soon have no choice but to control your own online platforms
Published: Fri, 10/02/20
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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 completely on any one or two big tech platforms, if you don't like being censored or de-platformed. And this is especially true if you rely exclusively on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, 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 of many reasons to get your free Learnistic test drive.
No, it’s not a guarantee against the cancel culture forces undermining small businesses. But, it's a platform you have a helluva lot more control over - that can connect to your email and other backend marketing - than you ever will with YouTube or social media.
Speaking of which:
I did a training about how to potentially profit from draconian Apple & Google platform rules not too long ago.
And it is in the Learnistic app.
To listen to it, simply do this:
1. Go to the link below & get your free Learnistic test drive
2. Inside the app, you will see "C'App'n Troy's Vlog"
3. Go in there to the audio titled "Profit From Evil Platforms"
https://www.EmailPlayers.com/learnistic
Ben Settle
P.S. If the 3 steps above seem cumbersome, they are.
But soon we'll have "deep linking" in Learnistic, where you can just send a link to your content (including to people you want to give access to secure bonuses, etc when they buy something from you or something you are selling as an affiliate) - where they automatically go to it in your private "walled garden" app that is uniquely your World if they already have Learnistic, or are sent instructions on how to download it if they don't.
We are still a new platform.
Maybe 20% of the features are there.
Which is why it's still extremely inexpensive to get in.
But it won't be forever, as current members ("grandfathered" in at the current price forever, even when it goes to several hundred dollars per month later) who are hip to what we're up to fully understand, and have gotten a taste of recently.