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| Statement on TMTGby the 45th President Donald J. Trump October 26, 2021 Last week, I announced the creation of a major new company that will challenge the dominance of the Big Tech giants and Big Media bosses. Today I want to explain more about what I am doing and why. For me, this endeavor is about much more than politics. This is about saving our country. America has always been a nation of smart, spirited, and independent people who take pride in thinking for themselves. We admire those who aren’t afraid to speak their minds, or go against the tide. Yet suddenly, we find ourselves being censored and dictated to by a small group of self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters of what everyone else is allowed to think, say, share, and do. Nowhere is this censorship more dangerous and brazen than on social media, the public square of our times. We have seen renowned medical doctors being banned from platforms for contradicting “health authorities” or questioning the political narrative of the moment. We’ve seen scientists blacklisted for sharing evidence that the pandemic began in a Chinese lab. We’ve seen vital reporting about Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings—information that voters needed and deserved to hear—ruthlessly suppressed and erased from the internet just weeks before a presidential election. And as everyone knows, we’ve seen a sitting president of the United States effectively silenced by a small oligarchy of tech titans and “mainstream” media corporations. The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored. We have fallen far down the “slippery slope” of censorship in our country, and the topics that Americans are increasingly forbidden to debate are among the most important issues of our day. This wildly aggressive censorship and “cancel-culture” is not only un-American—it has direct, real-world consequences. Most obvious are the many catastrophes unfolding under the current administration: the calamitous Afghanistan withdrawal, the disaster at the Southern Border, runaway inflation, and the multi-trillion-dollar socialist spending nightmare, just to name a few. In a country that had free speech and a free flow of information, none of this would ever have happened—and no one understands that better than the people doing the censoring. Yet the silencing and cancellation also affects our country in more subtle, but equally destructive, ways. How many Americans no longer trust a word they hear from their leaders, media, or public health officials, because the one thing they know for certain is that they are not getting the full story? How many ordinary citizens have sadly come to resent their neighbors, feeling that they now live in two entirely different realities? And how many millions of Americans silently oppose so much of the nonsense being inflicted on us, but see the heavy hand of the cancelers, and conclude that their voice can make no difference, or that the cost of speaking up is just too high? The new age of censorship is a disaster for our country. Things were far better in the days when we had our debates fiercely and openly, and then we could move forward together, as Americans, with both sides knowing that their voice, and their best arguments, had been heard. The more I looked into this problem, the more I realized that to restore free speech, a major new platform would have to enter the market, with an ironclad commitment to protecting vigorous debate from all sides. But since it is both hard and expensive to build a new platform totally independent of Big Tech’s infrastructure, it would have to be an extremely well-funded, multi-year undertaking. In addition, such a platform would need the ability to rapidly attract millions of users, welcoming not only Republicans to join, but Independents and Democrats as well. It’s a tremendously difficult set of challenges—and I realized I might be the only person in America with the megaphone, the resources, the experience, and the desire to make it all happen. So with the same “can-do” spirit that has always allowed Americans to persevere, that is exactly what I am doing. To take on Big Tech censorship, we are creating a “Big Tent” platform: Truth Social. We are inviting people of all political stripes, and all different viewpoints, to come and participate once again in the great American debate. That’s what our country is supposed to be about. Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation. We will not be treating users like lab rats for social experiments, or labeling alternative views as “disinformation.” We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans “can’t handle the truth.” It will be as free, vibrant, lively, and diverse as America itself. And Truth Social is only the beginning of our plans. The Trump Media and Technology Group will also be launching an on-demand video streaming service that competes with the increasingly “woke” and politicized ‘entertainment’ programming created by Big Tech and Big Media players. TMTG also sees opportunities to create “cancel-proof” alternatives in other key areas ranging from web services to payment processing. In the end, a small number of powerful people who all think the same and wish to silence anyone who thinks differently cannot be trusted to control almost every major media, technology, and entertainment company in America. I am determined to break their chokehold over the voices of the American People—not just for myself and my own supporters, but for the United States of America! |
Donnie,
If you want to make this truly viable, adopt the same procedures of KYC (Know Your Customer) as cryptocurrency exchanges. This will reduce the shills, bots and cowards from exploiting the platform.
Thanks for the Post Sharyl! And especially for your straightforward, unemotional, and unbiased presentation of information, along w providing specific sources for us to do our own research and determine what makes most sense to us!! Invaluable!
If Trump can pull off Truth Social, my suggestion would be that for the first month or so of its’ debut, the only thing that should get posted are ALL THE CENSORED posts from a variety of people and professionals that only wanted to make sure all perspectives and all information was provided so that we could fully contextualize a topic–. that were
taken down on the other Social Media Outlets over the last year or so.
It would build credibility to the Site as well as pique the interest of a variety of people.
When media and big tech can decide to censor a sitting or former President whether Republican or Democrat, the time for change has come! I have no doubt that TMTG under the tutelage of Donald Trump will launch a potent challenge to the existing platforms operated by the “Woke” elites. After Facebook and Twitter removed the former President, I in turn deleted both. Apparently the new platform “Truth Social” is not yet available as I have tried to download. I look forward to again engaging in dialogue with those that agree and disagree with me………….
Thank you Sharyl Attkisson & Donald Trump
100% this is just another example of what the May 15th Prophecy told you would see about Trump who God called to FIGHT 4 RIGHTEOUSNESS! = 100%
Can’t wait to have another alternative to Big Tech and their unAmerican censorship of Conservatives, Republicans,Christians and real doctors and scientists. Sign me up…..when will it start and where do we get on board?
Thank you Donald Trump! We miss you!
THIS is why we love and respect Donald Trump. He doesn’t hide his character flaws and fundamentally he believes in what’s right and good for America. The “other” side has done everything to hide their pedophile network and child trafficking while committing treason at every opportunity. Unfortunately anything Trump is connected to will be labelled racist, sexist, homophobic, etc- the usual liberal mob false accusations. The TRUTH is you don’t want to hide people who are racist or sexist- let them talk so you know who they are and can stay away from them.
Similarly you want to know who the racist liberal mob is and even though they have been turned over to a depraved mind by God- you want to know who they are and what they believe so you can also stay away from them.
I don’t know if I believe any social media will be free from manipulation or silencing because even if Trump is in charge, it still takes everyday people to manage the rest of it- and some of them will likely manipulate and censor things just because they can.
Either way I’m going to be a part of this new social media because at least there is hope that I can speak freely and not have any lying “fact checkers” censor my posts and I won’t be put in any digital jail because I spoke against the controlling mob.
rusty,
You opine : “hide people who are racist or sexist”
My bit of DEEPER understanding about that,
which Rush Limbaugh – no matter how hard I’d
tried, over decades – could not comprehend :
Everyone is RACIST and SEXIST!—except (mostly)
Libertine, Name-Calling, Leftist-LIARS/-Hypocrites;
that is, rusty, you’d have to “hide” the total, global
population of men and women and children, all of
whom see quite clearly ( overtly and/or subcon-
sciously ) the GENETIC differences between males
and females, and between, say, Chinese Asians
and BLACK Africans.
Scroll up from here, and find my report about Russian
Bolsheviks’ secretly applied Psychopolitics across
all Western democracies!—beginning with their 60s
Sexual Revolution against the ONCE-Sacred treatment
of heterosexuality and marriage, within the once-
termed/-defined (world-wide) “Holy Matrimony” in
nuclear family formations.
Your statement is product
of that Commie effort – via
Libertine
controlled
media,
movies,
radio,
books
and
magazines –
to destroy the heterosexual
nuclear family. In short, you
are touting communist-type
P R O P G A N D A.
How do we bring back prayer in schools, reverence for
sexuality / wombed-babies / marriage / family—and the
once-ubiquitous posting of Ten Commandments in
government buildings and schools ?
Well, the American Communist Lawyers Union (ACLU) had
effected – through dumbed-down judges’ courtrooms –
over ten decades ( beginning with their 1920s fight for
publication of pornography ) the above destructive
changes to the Founders’/Framers’ Christian-America.
-Rick
Sharyl, thanks for posting the statement for others to read.