I believe censorship is the endgame here in any direction. We either successfully regulate these companies into removing false content, or an authoritarian will eventually do so. It's unavoidable.
The owners of these platforms: Elon, Google, Meta are also intentionally designing their algorithms to promote this nonsense since it is more profitable and in line with their political beliefs.
I constantly get right wing content recommended to me. Given that I work in tech, I've concluded it's a combination of algorithms favoring content that generates rage which is something the right specializes in. The age old saying of a lie spreading around town before the truth gets its legs applies
I remember when they used to compete for customers. Now they are self aware that they have nearly no competition and try to steal as much as they can without you noticing.
we need them fast
Fascism is a cancer on the host body of democracy. If cancer is not forcefully cut out and removed, it will eventually consume the entire host, killing itself in the process.
everyone i met in Canada was exceptionally clear that they aren't coming to visit
The list of horrific events that have happened in just five months is difficult to explain:
- Arresting political opponents & judges
- Kidnapping our neighbors with armed and masked agents of the state
- Deporting legal residents to foreign torture prisons
- Violating court orders
- Starting a war
The average American has been hammered with so much propaganda from outlets like Fox News and Facebook for a decade that they can no longer distinguish outrageous lies from truth.
The "mainstream" media is also now complicit in enabling tyranny through their silence & settlements.
I just spent two weeks in Canada and it's difficult to truly appreciate how insane America is until you view it externally.
I cannot tell you how many Canadians asked me some variation of "what's wrong with America." I had to explain that around 40% of our population is functionally braindead.
Republicans hate any attempts to fight disinformation because their entire ideology depends on it. Banning outrageous lies starves their hateful ideology of oxygen and it's why it provokes such a violent reaction from them.
I'm not sure how to deal with this. I was at a dinner with a bunch of Republicans recently and they just don't live in a reality that I recognize. Everything that they know or believe is just incorrect.
If you want to know how screwed we are, go back to our efforts to fight disinformation.
The American public is completely braindead at the moment. They have been lied to for so long that they cannot tell truth from fiction anymore.
When you start destroying systems and institutions that you don't understand (or even attempt to understand) out of sheer ignorance, you're not just hurting yourself, you're putting everyone at risk for no benefit.
In an information economy that prioritizes attention over everything else, telling people that transgender immigrants are eating their pets will always win out over telling them the truth.
Nothing will change unless there is a significant disaster that brings them unwillingly into reality.
I've been struggling to come up with a solution to the issue of low information voters significantly outnumbering the general educated public. Just like in idiocracy, we are significantly outnumbered and I don't see a way out of this.
How many videos of armed, masked agents of the state kidnapping innocent people will it take before they realize they are the baddies?
The authoritarian government the conservatives have been screaming about for decades is finally here and they are all gleefully cheering it on.
one of the worst takes i've seen in some time. it's not corrupt unless you put it in writing that you're violating the law!
Sounds like a perfect case for civil forfeiture!
Would love to hear a single legitimate reason the head of DHS has $3,000 cash on them
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
Every American stands with Harvard.
also to marriage. the two worst things you can possibly tie healthcare to
They probably have a Signal chat where they post their Robinhood gains. They did the same thing with crypto too.
The most frustrating thing to me about these wild market swings is that you know every single Trump advisor is making massive market plays on every single tariff tweet that Trump posts.
And then they get angry when we correctly conclude they're abject morons.
They thought they were voting to own the libs, but they also voted to hurt themselves. Now we must all suffer collectively.
I have to laugh or I'll go insane.
When we try to explain basic concepts that are taught in elementary school, we are "speaking down" to them.
When we fail to change their minds, it's because "our arguments aren't good enough."
These idiots screamed about inflation (that they caused) for four years and then voted for a 25% tax hike on themselves. 😂
