It's also really easy to find other stupid people who believe the same stupid shit you do, and therefore reinforces your belief that the stupid shit you believe is actually true.
But Joe Rogan told me that big media curation is mind control.
StupidTweeter001 becomes my mental model for "them".
Exactly. This kind of stuff is rampant across the entire socio-political specturm, and it's precisely the kind of thing no one would have heard about prior to the internet age because in no universe would the story have pased Walter Cronkite's lips.
Information is insanely consolidated in a way not seen since before the advent of the printing press. The internet might as well be a handful of apps to 90% of the population that are incredibly censored and curated to push only a specific ideology.
Yeah I wasnt talking about just tv. I said information, the entire spectrum of information distribution tv, magazines, newspapers etc. All of it has become incredibly consolidated in the past few decades all the while being replaced by a handful of internet apps.
Yeah, I think Big P needs a history lesson about the Spanish-American War, McKinley, Hearst, etc.
Why are you like this? The only voice people have is when they speak the approved narrative, heres the best example;
www.nbcnews.com
If "censorship" really was as pervasive as you think it is, do you honestly think you'd even know about this? 100 years ago they sure as fuck didn't.Why are you like this? The only voice people have is when they speak the approved narrative, heres the best example;
YouTube suspends Sen. Rand Paul over a video falsely claiming masks are ineffective
The suspension was “a badge of honor," Paul tweeted.
The irony being the cdc itself said just a few months after that yes, cloth masks are indeed worthless.
Censorship isnt about outright deleting information, its often just as much about shaping the narrative, establishing what the "truth" is and who is "truthful". For a special person like Rand its kind of hard to silence him altogether even if they wanted and that would have been true 100 years ago.
Kind of the elephant in the room and sadly prevalent in everything. Hard not to trace a problem back to it's source in a thorough discussion.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Re-up your Politics, Culture, Controversy membership....
If the Politics forum was a country it would be like Haiti but with more AIDS.
I bet Microsoft separates Blizzard and Activision into different brand "houses" under the overarching Xbox / Game Pass banner.
