The Dulin Report

When I asked him if his father's 2020 campaign might build such a platform, Don Jr. said: "I'd love to do it. But what I would prefer is, take one of the two Silicon Valley conservatives and let them start it. And then I'd help promote the platform and be all over that."

Source: Axios AM - August 30, 2018 - Axios

Those of us who are unhappy with the policies of the social media giants are, of course, free to leave. Conservatives could (and do) form their social media platforms and host them elsewhere. Without net neutrality, the hosts and cloud providers can regulate content as well.

1. A group of people unhappy with Facebook suppressing their content decides to form their own version. They could do so today -- there is ton of open-source projects out there offering Facebook clones. Anyone can download the code, install it, and invite others to join;


2. Now they need to host it somewhere. Where would this new service live? They could, of course, host it on AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider. They can also host it in their own data center with a high speed Internet connection;


3. It used to be that net neutrality regulations prevented Internet companies from blocking or throttling lawful content. Since net neutrality has been repealed (by the conservative FCC, no less), there is nothing stopping the hosting providers from blocking content either;