With DailyPaul.com traffic plummeting, this is Michael Nystrom's last chance to avert further damage to conservatism:
A site that directly competes with liberty-hostile Jim Robinson's site, FreeRepublic.com, must be set up immediately and Michael Nystrom must redirect all DailyPaul.com traffic to it.
First of all, you have to understand that the liberty movement's recent progress is primarily a result of the Internet. Ron Paul was the beneficiary of this because he was the best man for the focus of that movement, but he was not its cause.
FreeRepublic.com is first and foremost a general news site that has the highest traffic for conservatives who are sharing news with each other. All higher ranking sites are run by major media companies such as Fox.
Jim Robinson, the owner of FreeRepublic.com, has a history of openly vicious censorship toward the liberty movement going back to 2007. He started going silent about his hatred only when it became apparent that Ron Paul's candidacy was a force to be reckoned with this year. He is still vicious and will continue to be so.
The primary feature of FreeRepublic.com is the front page general news and whatever competitor Nystrom redirects traffic to must have a similarly-functioning front page.
I invite you to examine Alexa's rankings for DailyPaul.com vs FreeRepublic.com vs RedState.com paying particular attention to the fact that DailyPaul.com was behind both of these sites prior to the presidential election cycle and is likely to return to only slightly higher than where it was. However, at present, it is still nipping at the heels of FreeRepublic.com.
Please, don't send a link to this to Michael Nystrom. He dislikes me personally and has previously rejected this idea by denying that the "network effect" (people go where they know they can find other people so you have a positive feedback effect that stabilizes control) puts him in a particularly responsible position. He's wrong and someone with better political/personal abilities than I, and better relations with him, must convince him otherwise before this opportunity disappears.
A site that directly competes with liberty-hostile Jim Robinson's site, FreeRepublic.com, must be set up immediately and Michael Nystrom must redirect all DailyPaul.com traffic to it.
First of all, you have to understand that the liberty movement's recent progress is primarily a result of the Internet. Ron Paul was the beneficiary of this because he was the best man for the focus of that movement, but he was not its cause.
FreeRepublic.com is first and foremost a general news site that has the highest traffic for conservatives who are sharing news with each other. All higher ranking sites are run by major media companies such as Fox.
Jim Robinson, the owner of FreeRepublic.com, has a history of openly vicious censorship toward the liberty movement going back to 2007. He started going silent about his hatred only when it became apparent that Ron Paul's candidacy was a force to be reckoned with this year. He is still vicious and will continue to be so.
The primary feature of FreeRepublic.com is the front page general news and whatever competitor Nystrom redirects traffic to must have a similarly-functioning front page.
I invite you to examine Alexa's rankings for DailyPaul.com vs FreeRepublic.com vs RedState.com paying particular attention to the fact that DailyPaul.com was behind both of these sites prior to the presidential election cycle and is likely to return to only slightly higher than where it was. However, at present, it is still nipping at the heels of FreeRepublic.com.
Please, don't send a link to this to Michael Nystrom. He dislikes me personally and has previously rejected this idea by denying that the "network effect" (people go where they know they can find other people so you have a positive feedback effect that stabilizes control) puts him in a particularly responsible position. He's wrong and someone with better political/personal abilities than I, and better relations with him, must convince him otherwise before this opportunity disappears.
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