An interesting story, not widely reported in the media, is unfolding. A crowd-funding site for content creators Patreon suffering mass exodus of both content creators and patrons over censorship. For uninitiated, Patreon exists mostly as an alternative to ad revenue for content creator on YouTube and similar platforms.

Top Patreon creators say they're launching an alternate crowdfunding platform

I see this event as significant for three reasons. First, there are now sociopolitical groups that are sufficiently organized and funded to effectively challenge regressive social media biases. Second, this could be the first step in fragmentation of social media landscape, the way cable news channels fragmented in the past. Third, this blow to Patreon sends a message to larger social media corporations (i.e. Twitter, Facebook) that free speech still matters.

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