Millennial Creates Conservative Social Media Platform - TrumpTown.com

Ferlon Webster Jr. | November 20, 2018
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After being knocked off Facebook, a millennial -- yes, that’s right, a millennial -- decided that he needed to create a social media platform that didn’t cross the lines of censoring people’s right to free speech.

Addison Riddleberger, is the creator of TrumpTown.com, which is an “innovative new social networking platform geared toward conservatives,” according to MarketWatch. The site was launched last week.

The 21-year-old decided to pursue this venture when he was ‘deplatformed’ by Facebook right before the midterms. “His network of pages, followed by 1.5 million people, was deleted with minimal warning by the social media giant,” according to Conservative Tribune.

“After years of Trump supporters’ right to free speech being silenced by Silicon Valley — and ultimately culminating with my network of conservative followers being purged — I decided the far-left tech industry needed a real competitor. And thus, TrumpTown was born,” he said in a press release.

The website is similar in design to Facebook and after arriving to the page you are immediately greeted with “Welcome! TrumpTown is a hub for free speech and political debate.”

Though the site is an avenue for free speech, Riddleberger mentioned not every type of speech would be allowed.

“We would remove something along the lines of KKK stuff and neo-nazi stuff,” he said. “That stuff is so unnecessary and fringe and I think it would make people misconstrue what the site is about.”

He says more than 45,000 people have signed up for TrumpTown but his early success hasn’t come without any opposition.

“Some users have told us that upon trying to share our social network in Facebook posts and groups, their post gets instantly removed and never sees the light of day — are the tech giants afraid of a little competition?” he told The Daily Wire.

Only time will tell if this conservative social media platform will succeed. With Facebook and other social media giants having most people’s attention it’ll be a challenge for Riddleberger’s site to make some headway, but nonetheless, he’s attempting to do something most people would only think about. 

Take a look at a video Fox News discussing TrumpTown:

H/T: The Daily Wire

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