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The Last Chance for Michael Nystrom

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Quote Originally Posted by jabowery View Post
If you mean Nystrom redirects DP traffic to a site someone else sets up to take out FreeRepublic.com, then yes, someone else should step in and provide Nystrom with a place to redirect traffic.

If you mean someone other than Nystrom should set up a site without Nystrom redirecting traffic there, then that site will fail.

Really, Nystrom needs to approve of this new site (which most likely means he has ownership of it of course).

People need to understand the network effect or they'll just be blowing hot air about this issue.

Here's something liberty movement people might be able to understand:

Republicans hostile to liberty continually go on and on saying "Stop trying to take over the Republican Party. Go build the Libertarian party!"

This is ridiculous in a couple of ways, only one of which is understood by liberty activists:

There are increasingly incestuous laws on the books that favor the existing 2 party system. That's why Ron Paul had no choice but to run Republican.

There is a second aspect to this, not acknowledged by the vast majority of liberty activists:

In politics, especially, people go where there are other people already. They do this for a lot of reasons, one of which is just being able to maximize one's opportunities to "network" with others. But in politics there is an even greater driver: Strength in numbers. Both of these are aspects of the network effect.

Those who are saying "Go off and start your own competitor to FreeRepublic.com. You have no right to tell Michael Nystrom what to do!" are not only confusing free speech with force, they are ignoring the natural force that keeps FreeRepublic.com the dominant Internet gathering place for conservatives: The network effect.
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