Hey guys, I had an idea that maybe the richest people in the world are buying up all the media so that they can control and censor public discourse and anything they disagree with.
I know it’s a bit out there, and I can’t prove it, but it’s just this crazy thought I had!
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Fancy that!
There’s a reason Elon bought Twitter, and it wasn’t just so he could wave his dick through the world’s biggest megaphone.
Bluesky will fall in line as well. You don’t have platforms with hundreds of millions of users without big pockets, and if you’ve got big pockets it would seem the world is already working exactly the way you want it to.
bluesky is already falling in line, its getting there.
And none of you saw this coming? Really? State owned media news and “entertainment” outlets refusing to disparage the king?
And STILL y’all use them - knowing full well that all your information is sold on the open market and all your secrets are no more?
And then bitch about it. Fucking hell - America and the rest of the world devolves into dumb shits.
If you don’t want to be “cut off” by the people you’re protesting against, DON’T USE THEIR MEDIA.
Convenience is a hell of a drug. As soon as you ask someone to uproot their social media presence to the fediverse their eyes begin to glaze over. They don’t understand it and want to be part of a giant and almost all-encompassing community which is not where we’re currently at right now.
It takes multiple instances of censorship, frustration, and offending the wrong bot to be forced out of their online shell and even then they might still go for the next corporate-owned social media because it’s “easier” than understanding what federation means.
state sponsored mass surveillance using AI cameras.
Bit late for those fears, but okay
Can’t spell metastasis without META: They are a cancer, delete your accounts today and stop letting them spread their sickness into you, your friends, or your family.
Tell me we’re not an oligarchy.
I would, but I don’t like lying.
These absolute dumb fucks shouldn’t be using facebook or instagram to begin with.
The Alt-right and capitalism ladies & gentlemen! Hope it was worth it.
Terrible headline. Implies that censorship isn’t happening, but we are on a slippery slope.
It should “Awareness of big tech censorship grows after…”
Remember how all the cons that thought “the Twitter files” were such a big deal and were constantly mewling about things like “Section 230”?
And all because they were merely being mildly hemmed in on saying openly racist shit on a private platforms, spreading harmful conspiracy theories about a pandemic, and wanting a Russian psyop about a hard drive, oops, I mean, “laptop” spread far and wide on the same private platforms.
Wonder where all these free speech maximalists are now?
I submit that the conservatives have always been rather problematic in their mental state, but a few things definitely broke their brains: 1. A black man being elected twice, and generally well-regarded by most of America and the world. 2. Their Qanon bullshit stories did not result in Podesta, Clinton, Obama, etc., being arrested by donnie douchebag. 3. Covid. and finally, 4. Their J6 scheme failed
By the time they hit 2021, their brains were so utterly broken. Claiming that “Big Tech” post Cambridge Analytica was “liberal”, LOL. Quite the fucking take. And what conservatives have been the least bit cancelled? I still hear from all of these assholes all the time, way too much.
It’s a hard topic to sort out. On one hand these are private company’s platforms so they can kinda do what they want with their property. On the other hand, it’s undeniable that social media IS news media now. So acts like this are effectively suppressing the news. And our laws (or lack thereof) have allowed actual news media and social media news media to be monopolized by one political ideology, which is extremely dangerous.
The only real answer at the moment is to simply stop using those platforms. But I get it. They’re using the most populated platforms to try to reach the most people. Unfortunately, all the most populated platforms are owned by fascists.
I’m shocked “No Kings” had anything suspended given what a milquetoast joke of a movement it is.
It’s a sizeable movement motivating people to vote against fascism. If you have a problem with that then I guess I’m not surprised you’re carrying water for Mark Zuckerberg in the comments.
At the ones I’ve seen, the action itself was just speeches and signs etc, but people were meeting new comrades and organizations, some people learning about PSL for the first time which actually calls for serious action. It’s not intended to be a strike-back type of thing like what’s happening in France or Albania, it’s helping people who have never done any serious political work in their lives get their foot in it.
Of look! All those things we said would happen are happening. Quelle surprise.
Qui aurait pu le prévoir? Pikachu.exe
Walang sinuman ang makakapaghula nito. Isang ganap na sorpresa ito.
Obh obh, cò thog an tùr babel a rithist?
Më thonë se gjyshi im e ndërtoi, por prindërit e mi nuk janë njerëz shumë të besueshëm.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn.
हमरा हिसाब से ऊ इंतजार करत रह सकेला आ सपना देखत रह सकेला।
every time the Americans go ‘oh shit I think we’re obviously living in a fascist regime!’ they forget about it within a week, this is like the 8th time in the last 2 years that this headline has run.
Literally two days ago they were running the same headline in response to Starlink and Ukraine.
I think we remember it every day, but that doesn’t mean we suddenly reach the critical mass necessary to change it. For those of us who recognize what’s happening for what it is, it’s at the forefront of our minds.
Don’t you DARE suggest they get off their cowardly asses or they’ll start throwing MAGA-level language at you real fast
It’s always the same responses:
“Nothing can be done” (we tried nothing and are all out of ideas)
“What are you doing about it?” (Can’t somebody else do it? We welcome foreign interference!)
And then endless excuses for why nothing will work so they won’t even try.
I’ve even seen the people giving these responses mock others for moving away from the US.
“It’s a very big country, you see.”
The downvotes on this post are hilarious. Just a bunch of the most pants-pissing white liberal cowards who keep telling themselves they’re not part of the problem.
Though I will ALSO mock Americans who would rather flee the country than stay and fight back.
It’s almost like abandoning protocols for platforms was a mistake.
Just like coming down from the trees and leaving the ocean.
It’s pretty crazy inside ocean though.
Yeah leaving the ocean was the first big mistake. Or maybe it was going multicellular. Or maybe it was letting in that bacterium that turned into proto-mitrochondria. Seemed like a really good deal at the time, all this new energy available for neat new activities, in exchange for some “progress” and cooperation? What could go wrong!?
If we hadn’t left the ocean, some other species would’ve taken our place. And while you may feel differently, I really don’t think orcas would be any more responsible than us. This is to say that there’s no guarantee that any species would behave any better than we have, given the same level of intelligence and drive for resources.
It’s not a zero sum game. Let the orcas go to work. I’ll gladly be their pet or play in their zoo, it’s likely to be better than what we’ve set up.
Can’t help but notice you didn’t mention your eagerness to be the orca’s food, which given the their nature, is drastically more likely.
Nah, they have been widely and countless times shown to be disinterested in or even vehemently opposed to eating us for whatever reason, the only known attacks come from mistreatment or mistaken identity, whereas there are literally centuries of numerous stories of their willingness to partner with us to work for shared hunting spoils in the wild, and numerous stories of their protecting humans from other predators. They’ll be great owners to us.
I see you either didn’t read or patently disregarded where I said “given our level of intelligence and drive for resources.”There’s no reason to assume they’d be as benevolent as you assume, especially given how deadly they’ve proven to other animals, such as seals, just for sport.
Orcas are highly disciplined apex predators whose behaviors are calculated survival strategies. I get your understandable dislike of human species, but to pretend that those predators would be kinder and more benevolent than us at our level of intelligence and capacity for reason seems to be nothing more than hating a species that, by and large, is generally kinder than the assholes, who get the most attention.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Don’t forget abandoning nomadic lifestyles in favor of agriculture and settled civilizations…
I don’t know living until a maximum of 50 doesn’t sound great.
You want to spend an extra 50 years in a drawn-out process of dying?
50 is not old. Plenty of people can enjoy life into thier 70s. 80+ is where bodily autonomy degrades.
Man, I was just keeping with the deadpan humor of the thread. I know 50 is still young. But leaving the ocean and coming down from the trees likely had similar effects on lengthening life expectancies, no? I don’t think we’re here for an anthropological debate though, are we?
