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Since the 2016 election the left has been consolidating their vast cultural power by exiling opposing views that don't pass their ever-shifting purity tests.

It remains to be seen whether or not this will bury conservative thought or cause an underground resurgence.

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Social media companies and "the left" are not the same. Although they surely have some overlap (just as social media companies and "the right" surely have some overlap), conflating them entirely with each other is simply false. We cannot assign political conspiracies to entire industries.

I don't think the claim is that social media is inherently leftist, but rather than leftists have mounted attacks on all social media companies that don't actively censor right-wing opinions (see current ad boycott targeted at Facebook). I think the success of these campaigns are extremely concerning and a reminder that peace and prosperity are not a given.

Companies should be accountable to their customers. When a large group of those customers collectively exercise their rights to let a company know the company's values don't align with those customers, that seems like a pretty reasonable demonstration of the market.

The largest lefist subreddit was banned today. The T_D ban was purely symbolic, it was already dead.

This isn't "the left" this is liberalism.

They banned /r/politics?

/r/politics is a liberal subreddit. It regularly censors leftists and people on right. Don't call something "left" when you mean liberal.

The modern conversation is about tribes not position/ideology. What people are calling left here is an amorphous blob of ever shifting positions. They are neither leftist nor liberal, it is essentially a distributed tribe linked together by shared a language and culture.

Left and liberal are both two very useful words, sadly they do not really describe any of the vocal demographics on social media

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